A Failure of Technology
Went for my run this morning. I’m using the C25K iPhone app to manage my run training. It’s a nice app that lets you play music on the phone and overlays run/walk interval announcements. I’m in week five of nine weeks, and this week’s program consists of a five minute warmup walk, then three five minute runs with two minute walks inbetween, then a five minute cooldown walk for a total of thirty-one minutes. I did my first of these last Friday, covering about two miles in the process.
This morning before I went on my run, I threw together a playlist with songs roughly the length of each of the intervals:
- Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
- Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
- Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin (Piano Acoustic Version)
- Passion Pit - The Reeling
- Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
- Röyksopp - What Else Is There?
- Deadmau5 - Slip
It would have worked out great, but I somehow managed to keep pausing the C25K app. As Thou Shalt Always Kill was coming to the end, I checked the app to see how much I had left in the first five minute run, only to find that I had somehow escaped from the app, which pauses the run. (I found it paused at one minute into the five minute run.)
It happened a few more times during the workout, and it really threw off my whole run. As a result, I ended up running/walking for 37 minutes instead of 31 and ran over 2.5 miles. Not a bad run, but I ended up getting in to work a bit later than I was hoping to as a result. I’m leaving a bit “early” this evening to go for a group swim with the Boca Triathletes at the beach. (5:30 is early to be leaving work around here since most show up late. My company is kind of on South Florida time.)
