Made it!

I am progressing more slowly than the canned C25K program would expect. But hey, I'm a short portly woman in her late fifties, so I have persistence, experience, and wisdom going for me, but biology against me. But today I completed week 5 workout 2 on the second try. I decided it was more important to be successful at a given level than to keep to some arbitrary timetable.

2 8 minute runs, the first was almost easy at 5.5-5.1 with most of the time at 5.3. Heart didn't get over 148. The second was very hard, from 5.3 to 4.8 with half the time at the bottom. Heartrate hit 150 a couple of minutes in and stayed there even with the slowdown. But I had music and I got there.



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Edge of Nausea

The C25K is really stepping it up. Today was supposed to be two right minute runs. I started to feel nauseous in the second run, so split it in two. I decided I'm doing this to feel good and it wasn't. I'm good with pushing myself but not to the point of throwing up.

Heart rate wasn't above 150. Speed was 5.5 down to 4.8.







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3-5 minute intervals, 5.3-5.1



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Feeling Even Better

It's Saturday and I got down there about 8:30. Plenty of coffee and water but no food. Around the block first with Rocky. Felt good, 5.5 for first interval, 5.3 for second, 5.3 for third, and 5.3 to 4.8 for last one. Breath had gone but heart rate was just skimming 150. I focused on the music and rhythm and didn't look at the dashboard very often.






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Better

(Cross posted in the blog and the quick log)


I knew today would be close to optimal: adequate sleep, up a sufficient length of time (alarm at 6, on the treadmill at 7:45), coffee ingested, and long enough since last I did this (it's Wednesday, I last ran Sunday, gym Monday morning mostly strength training).

I completed Week #4 workout #2 as written. It was slow, but I wanted into be slow. 5.5 mph on the first, 5.0 on all the others except the last couple if minutes I gradually slowed to 4.5 mph but by golly I was still running!

Heart rate shot up in the first interval, all over the map in the second, but then it was in the 140s till the end when it was in the 150s. Per the calculator in the last post, this is fine and about right, even on the low side. By the old Macdonald test, I was working very hard.

But I feel very good right now. And snow tomorrow!

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From Norway, a calculator:

Your HRmax is calculated to be:
173 bpm
Your target heart rates for interval training are:
During intervals: 147 - 165 bpm
During active rest: 113 - 130 bpm

Linked in today's NYT.

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Week 4 #1

The heartrate shot up to 165 on the first few seconds of jogging and slowly went down to the 130s. I was dragging all day and finally got myself to do this but was slow (5.5-5.0) and felt nauseous so didn't evb complete five sold minutes. But I stuck it out.



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Week 3 session 3

Heart rate up to 152 during last minute of run but it felt good. 5.5 mph.


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Plugging away on the treadmill

Week 3 day 2



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