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Posted By: smithmandy on
Today I ran for 1 mile without stopping!!! I'm so proud of myself. I actually didn't feel like I was about to die, which I thought I would. Don't get me wrong, it was difficult. I had to keep on telling myself one more minute, one more minute. It helped and I got through it. I also went on the elliptical for 30 min. yay! I feel like I really accomplished something today.
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Posted By: mellers on
Today I ran 7.33km (4.59miles) - further than I have ever run before! Woohoo!
Being half term, the college gym is closed, so I did a road session and managed 50 mins with a very comfortable avg heart rate of 135 beats per minute. That works out at 5.5mph.
It felt really good actually, and to be honest, in terms of feeling fit (in my breathing) enough to carry on I think I could have done today. Unfortunately, at about 49 mins my right knee started to twinge and I can see it being exacerbated by too long a session, but I'm really pleased with how this session felt and really concentrating on NOT getting injured again.
I can't praise the cross trainer at the gym enough for this. It's helped me improve my cardio-vascular fitness, WITHOUT the harsh impact of actual running on my joints. I think it might be the answer to help me get fit enough to be able to run 10k, without hurting myself. Looking forward to college starting again next week after half term, so I can get back to the gym and use it again.
In sadder news, just over 24 hours after his return home, the guy who shares my house and I had a row. Crushed by his lack of enthusiasm, I was upset and disappointed when my attempts to behave like a normal human being were squashed. He apologised, but I can't not think that this is a really sad thing to have happened. It makes the next time I try to be enthusiastic about something so much harder and was one of the serious reasons why my slip in to oblivion was so serious.
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Still suffering the after effects of Sunday's lentils (TMI???) I felt, bloated and heavy. I also didn't sleep particularly well, so when the alarm went off at 6:00 a.m. this morning, I wasn't particularly inclined to get up and cycle to college in the dark, in order to get a gym session in before my 9:15 English class.
However, knowing that I would be kicking myself if I didn't, I wrapped up and set off in teh cold. Having arrived I almost avoided the treadmill completely, but again, predicting my self-admonishment, I thought I would do just 5 mins of running on the treadmill. I set the speed nice and slow (8.5kph) and kept telling myself I would do another 2 minutes, or just another 3 minutes, or just another 5 mins, or just till the end of the song which had started on my i-pod.
In that way, I pushed past the tiredness and heaviness and eventually managed 30 mins of running. No great speed or distance this morning, but as an exercise (excuse the pun) in achieving something when I thought I couldn't, it was interesting to see how my mind worked.
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Posted By: Scarendipity on
So I ran my very fist 5K this morning and going in I just wanted to finish and not care about time, but my goal was to run the whole thing. Well I did walk several times, but only for less than a minute then went back to running. And I finished with a time of 29:13 (las time I ran 3.2 miles on a treadmill last week it took me 31:30 so I cut out 2 min) which from the responses of everyone I've told is good for your first time race, I even got invited to run a half marathon next month, but I told the guy he was crazy!!! However there is another 5 K on Thanksgiving day and that sounds like fun so that will be my next race!
For anyone about to run a 5K let me tell you - music selection is key, sometimes my music slowed me down, the right tempo and you barely realize how fast you're going, which helps the miles pass by quicker!
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