Surprise!
So I went for my run this morning, day three of week 5 on the couch to 5k plan. Every other week so far has been the same intervals each day of each week. I assumed the same, so I used my same playlist from Monday’s run and headed out. After walking around the corner, I hit the end of my five minute warmup walk and started what I thought was my first five minute run. I knew about where the five minute mark got me in the neighborhood, and knew I was running a bit slow, so when I blew past the mark, I got frustrated thinking that the C25K app was paused again like my run on Monday.
I looked at my phone and it said Run: 14:37 remaining. Now I’m frustrated because I think I chose the wrong day’s workout or the app messed up and gave me the wrong one. Nope, I verify that this is in fact Week 5, Day 3. Five minute warm-up, twenty minute run, five minute cool-down. So I broke back into a jog and finished it up.
My hamstrings are still pretty tight from Sunday’s volunteering and yesterday’s long bikeride. Tighter than they’ve been since I started training, actually. I ran slower than usual, so I didn’t cover a lot of ground. My route today was just under two miles. It was nice to see that I could run (slowly) for twenty minutes, and not feel like I had to stop at the end. The run workouts start getting longer next week. Friday’s run will be 34 minutes, up from 31, all the extra time in the middle run section. Looking forward to it.
