C25K Week 1 Day 2

Week One, Day Two, of the C25K program completed. I'm feeling quite good at the moment, and probably could have pushed myself a little harder during the workout today, but I was doing some reading last night about training to run on treadmills and a piece of advice was that if you are capable of running slower, then you are running too fast. Another tidbit was that speed comes with time. As such, I backed off on the speed a little bit compared to Tuesday. I don't want to overdo it at this point.

Here are my stats for today:

0.00-5.00 - 3.5 mph

5.00-6.00 - 5.5 mph

6.00-7.30 - 3.5 mph

7.30-8.30 - 5.5 mph

8.30-10.00 - 3.5 mph

10.00-11.00 - 5.5 mph

11.00-12.30 - 3.5 mph

12.30-13.30 - 5.5 mph

13.30-15.00 - 3.5 mph

15.00-16.00 - 5.5 mph

16.00-17.30 - 3.5 mph

17.30-18.30 - 5.5 mph

18.30-20.00 - 3.5 mph

20.00-21.00 - 5.5 mph

21.00-22.30 - 3.5 mph

22.30-23.30 - 5.5 mph

23.30-25.00 - 3.5 mph

25.00-30.00 - 3.0 mph


This dropped my distance down to 1.97 miles in 30 minutes, a 15:14 mile pace, but that's okay. I'm looking to be in this for the long haul. I had a bit of time on my hands last night at work and made a spreadsheet with all of the intervals broken down into start and end times, not only for the C25K program but for two programs that go further, the Gateway to 8K and Freeway to 10K programs (you can find information about them towards the bottom of the page at www.c25k.com). Both of those programs are 10 weeks in length, which means I will need 28 more weeks to get through all three regimens. That will be good timing as my wife is due in early December. And, by sticking with it, I'll be in probably the best shape of my life...or at least the last 10 years.


Today is a great day to start moving if you haven't been already.