I got in 4 walk/runs this week for a total of 6.3 miles. I haven’t been following the C25K routine minute by minute. Instead, being a country girl, I’ve been regulating my running by telephone poles. The first week I’d walk the distance between 2 telephone poles, then run between the next two poles, and repeat. It ended up being surprisingly close to the actual C25K timing.
The second week I ran 1-2, then walked one. This last week I was running 2-3 poles and walking 1-2. Once I even made it 5 whole telephone poles without stopping –0.3 miles, a feat which then forced me to walk, panting, for the next 5 minutes straight, I was so tuckered out. Ah well.
Bottom line: making progress, getting stronger, liking the Asics, still looking forward to exercising. And loving hanging out with my 15 year old son who is being a really good sport about keeping me company as I toodle along at a turtle’s pace.
way to go you and your son sounds a sweetie.
On my own keep fith thingy so like you little bits of progress makes a whole heap of change. keep up your excelent work
Rachel
But do you take photos of those telephone poles?
http://higheredhands.blogspot.com/2006/07/catching-up-part-1.html
I live on the side of a mountain and sometimes the steep dirt road to the top challenges me. I measure my progress in telephone poles.
I ran a 5K while still 90 pounds overweight.
YOU CAN DO THIS!!!
How exciting!!! This is so great! I have an iphone and LOVE the RunKeeper app. Do you have a smart phone?
Love the telephone pole idea for us country runners (toddlers) 🙂 I have been doing something similar but wasn’t sure how it compared to the Couch 2 5K. Good luck!