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slaptear2

37 posts since
Apr 8, 2008

May 12, 2008 5:27 PM

C25K Week 7

I started week 7 today. The only problem was that I forgot to review what the week 7 plan was. I was thinking we jumped up to the 28 min run part. However, AFTER my run, I found that week 7 is a repeat of week 6 of a 20 min run. Oh well- too late now

So the good news is that I thought I was suppose to run for 28 mins. So that was my goal that I had and that is what I did. Actually, I ran for 28 mins and 43 sec. Why do I mention the mins and sec????

Because- that took me right to my 5K run marker ! That's right- I ran 5K today with no problems at all.

YAHOO- I just ran 5K and i did it under my goal time of 30 mins. Now this isn't the actual 5K race that I signed up for in the last Saturday of June, but was on my practice run area. So now I've managed to achieve another goal !!

The weather really sucked though- it was 47 degrees, rain and miserable. But, I read if you are goning to be a runner, that you gotta run in any weather conditions as you never know what the weather will be on race day.

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Laurarunning

49 posts since
Mar 14, 2008

1. May 12, 2008 6:17 PM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Great job, Slaptear2! It's great to track progress, isn't it? For me that really helps keep me committed. The last thing I want at this point is having to go back to earlier week runs. So I think it's great that you're tracking your time, distance, number of minutes added to your life and money saved! Keep up the good work!

Laura

Kath_e

3 posts since
May 7, 2008

2. May 12, 2008 9:03 PM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Today is W7D1 for me...and I talked myself outa running today, then I talked myself back into running. I really feel crappy today. Cramps, Headache, really a number of good reasons not to run. But, I got on the treadmill ran it anyway.
I promised myself that if I just got on the treadmill I wouldn't have to go fast, just walk even to get the 2.5 miles in. But as I got on the treadmill I figured, well I can walk at 3.5Mph and once I had 5 minutes in, I figured...well I can jog for a bit...that bit added up being 30:30 minutes and 2.5 miles....that's how I tricked myself into running today....lol.

slaptear2
I took your advice and lowered my run pace...I was going about 5.2MPH I brought that down to 4.8 and was able to complete 30 minutes to get my 2.5 miles in. No flying off the back of the treadmill for me...lol...:^0

slaptear2

37 posts since
Apr 8, 2008

3. May 12, 2008 9:18 PM

in response to: Kath_e

Re: C25K Week 7

Yup- I agree with everyone- the mental aspect of running seemly to be the hardest part of running. Now that i actually hit the 5K mark, I'm even more motivated

runNswim

35 posts since
Mar 31, 2008

4. May 13, 2008 8:44 AM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Slaptear - CONGRATS, that is such an awesome time and you haven't even completed C25K yet! Wow! You reached your goal way ahead of time - I bet you're psyched to run a 5K race now! Go Boilers.

Kathe - That was smart to slow down, speed will come with time. Makes life a little bit more pleasant! Hee! I told my husband to slow down after he repeatedly had bad run after bad run - and he finally listened to me for the first time - and last night, he actually had a nice run!

FMR - From the previous week's convo, it is funny that you mentioned a Tri... I kinda looked into how to train for one (wow), it will definately take a while to train for a sprint, but I may have to do it someday. There are no swimming competitions around here, the closest one (right now) is 4 hours away! Yuck! I live near a major city, but for some reason - the swimming programs don't have a lot of competitions... don't know why. Anyways, I may have to TRY a TRI someday. Didn't you do one?

I went to swim practice today for the first time in a year - and man, did it hurt... plus it was at 5:30am! And of course, they were working on middle distance work - so I pretty much died (I'm a sprinter). We used fins on the last set - I did OK because my legs are in relatively good shape. HA! My D1 is tonight, I'll update later.

slaptear2

37 posts since
Apr 8, 2008

5. May 13, 2008 10:29 PM

in response to: runNswim

Re: C25K Week 7

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa - that how I feel right now sitting here at work. Good thing I don't have to run again until 8 hrs from now because I think I just couldn't do it.(it's 1:30am EDT)- time stamp must be California time

I do think I have a "run day" routine down now that works for me:

get home from work and into bed @ 4am

Get up at 10am- let me body do the things it has to do (TMI)

Drink a cup of tea

Put on running garb

Hit the treadmill for 10 min warm up, fast pace walk (3.8mph)

Stretch the muscles- especially my shins

Then hit the road- I think I can... I think I can...

Back to the house- cool down some outside walking around, do stretches, especially the shins

Go into house- log info into my favorite running free log site- www.runningahead.com

Finish cool down, complete major body stretching

Drink Protein drink

Shower, shave, get dressed and go to work for another 14hrs.

Rest and repeat for the next 20 years

slaptear2

37 posts since
Apr 8, 2008

6. May 14, 2008 4:39 PM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Finished W7D2 today. Pouring down rain and very windy outside. I was running into a head wind and my first split time was actually 30 sec faster than normal- guess I was pushing too hard. I ended up running a 5K again and bettered my PR on my training run by about 25 sec.

Running in the rain is actually kind of fun and it keeps you cooled down. But I can imagine what all the area farmers think when they see me run by.

FatManRunning

75 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

7. May 14, 2008 5:04 PM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Hi all!

Did W7D1 yesterday. Boy did it heat up in the desert here! It was about 85 for my run. A little slower pace helped me keep going. I forgot my hat, so I had the sun in my face all the way out. I have a nice route to run, the wind is usually at my back on the way home, and I have a couple of trails I can turn off on if I am feeling masochistic and want to do some hills. It's about half dirt road and half asphalt, with a dirt shoulder for the dog to run on. Made it all the way, with no walking. As usual, the hardest part of the run was in my head.

Run like H3ll !

runNswim

35 posts since
Mar 31, 2008

8. May 14, 2008 6:49 PM

in response to: FatManRunning

Re: C25K Week 7

slaptear - You are on a roll!

FMR - Sorry about that heat... I couldn't do it!

Completed D1 tonight. I absolutely couldn't do it last night, I had no energy. After hubby got home... we ate dinner and then I took my kid on some errand shopping, and when I got home - I CRASHED. I tried to get up and do my run, but I couldn't. It may take me a while to get used to the run & swim schedule. Tonight's run was hard... the first 15 minutes were awful and the last 10 were a little bit better.

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slaptear2

37 posts since
Apr 8, 2008

9. May 14, 2008 7:13 PM

in response to: FatManRunning

Re: C25K Week 7

85 degrees AND the Desert ??!! I think I'd just stay on the couch in my central air conditioning.

Gets like that here in OSU land and humid and muggy. I've haven't run in anything much over 70 degrees yet. I hate the heat anyway, so the end of June 5K I'm signed up to run should be a good test.

FatManRunning

75 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

10. May 15, 2008 7:16 PM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Day 2 done!

The head game started way too early today, thogh. I'm sitting eating my lunch at work today, and already my wimp gland was acting up: "Oh, it"s going to be just TOO hot to run today, you can make it up tomorrow" etc. I dragged my sorry butt out anyway at 6:00 pm. Turned out to be a great run! It's wierd, but I usually have my best runs when I start out not wanting to go. Wierd, huh?

Run like H3ll !

TeejWI

34 posts since
Apr 14, 2008

11. May 15, 2008 7:56 PM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

That's awesome, Slap. You're definitely ahead of me, probably in part because you went the smart C25K way rather than just going out and running like I did.

That said, the first time I ran 5k (on my 3rd run - end of my first week) it took me ~ 46 minutes...although that wasn't an "attempt at a time" (nor have any of my other runs been)...I just set out to survive the distance and that's what it took me.

Last time I ran a properly measured 5k at least I was down to 39:xx last week - in my 5th week of running.

runNswim

35 posts since
Mar 31, 2008

12. May 16, 2008 7:47 PM

in response to: FatManRunning

Re: C25K Week 7

That was awful. When I stood on the treadmill to begin, I instantly wanted to get off and go back home. The whole thing was strange, my warmup was so slow and I felt like my legs were dragging for the entire run. That was D2, hope that doesn't happen again for D3. Maybe my legs are dead from yesterdays practice or maybe I ran too close to after dinner and was just sluggish. Oh well, swim practice tomorrow at 8am - looking forward to it!

Have a great weekend, everybody!

slaptear2

37 posts since
Apr 8, 2008

13. May 17, 2008 4:06 PM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Finshed W7D3 today. I was supposed to run yesterday but I felt like **** so I used that as a lame excuse to talk myself into staying on the couch. I found out that I regretted the rest of the day. So on the way home from work last night (3am) I told myself that I WILL RUN TODAY.

It worked. This past week I noticed that I haven't had any real gains in my running effort or any weight loss. Then I read somewhere were it said to quit running the same course all the time, that you body adjusts to it. You have to keep your body confused and the muscles guessing what is next.

So today, I ran the differant course I have set up. The only problem is that it's straight downhill for the first .5 of a mile. Even keeping my feet under my hips and taking baby strides it still pounded the heck out of my knees. Only problem- I knew I'd had to run back UP it to finsh the course. Check out the course and elevations that I maintain over at http://www.runningahead.com/

map: http://runningahead.com/logs/52e46b4b1bfb456ab14731f50b2aef4e/courses/0d6d6fa4c1f649fda9ce589355eab736

It's basically a 100 ft drop in a 1/2 mile span. Real knee breaker. Believe me- going downhill is much worse on the legs then running up. Anyway, I completed the 5K and managed to barely make it back up the hill at the end of the run.

I'm glad I finished my D3 run. It was very good for me mentally, to know that I did NOT fail. It was also good for me physically. Running takes that crappy feeling right out of you, both mental and physical crapness.

I read a quote somewhere: "Pain is just weakness leaving your body" HOW TRUE !

ONTO WEEK 8 !!

I could have ran 3 offical 5K races over the last 3 weeks but I want my local one to be my first. I'll be in better shape in 5 weeks by then.

runNswim

35 posts since
Mar 31, 2008

14. May 18, 2008 8:08 AM

in response to: slaptear2

Re: C25K Week 7

Slaptear, love your quote.

However, I think I broke my pinky toe this morning! As I was headed to bed last night, I stubbed it on the babies' bouncer (metal base). Then when I got up at 4:45am for a early morning feed, I hit the darn thing again in the SAME PLACE!!! It hurts so bad everytime I take a step - the little toe is purple and red. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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