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Date: 04 Aug 2006 08:14:32
From: Beginning runner
Subject: Up a notch
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In my quest to reach week 3 of couch to 5K, I stepped it up a notch. If
all goes well, I hope to do week three next week.
I had been doing 1.5/1.5, 2/2 (jog/walk) three times. Today increased
it to 1.5/1.5, 2.5/2.5 twice followed by one more 1.5/1.5
The good news is that I did it. There isn't any bad news.
I used the iPod to try to maintain a steady pace, and succeeded pretty
much. I kept it at about 12:05 min mile, although I did have a few
short spurts of about 11:30. My walking speed was 2 MPH; since the
purpose of walking was to get the heart rate down, slow is good.
When I did the final 1.5, though, I decided to push it a bit and started
out at about 10:30. That lasted about 40 seconds; I had to bring it
back down to 12:05 after that, which I maintained for the final 50
seconds.
According to the iPod, my average pace for jogging and walking combined
was 15:15
The iPod says that my time was 17:27 (not counting the final walk), but
my HR monitor says it was 17:31. I know that I started both devices at
the same time because at 30 seconds they were reading the same. I
wonder which one is in error (or are they both off?).
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Date: 04 Aug 2006 10:56:36
From: Ed Prochak
Subject: Re: Up a notch
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Beginning runner wrote:
> In my quest to reach week 3 of couch to 5K, I stepped it up a notch. If
> all goes well, I hope to do week three next week.
>
> I had been doing 1.5/1.5, 2/2 (jog/walk) three times. Today increased
> it to 1.5/1.5, 2.5/2.5 twice followed by one more 1.5/1.5
>
> The good news is that I did it. There isn't any bad news.
>
> I used the iPod to try to maintain a steady pace, and succeeded pretty
> much. I kept it at about 12:05 min mile, although I did have a few
> short spurts of about 11:30. My walking speed was 2 MPH; since the
> purpose of walking was to get the heart rate down, slow is good.
>
> When I did the final 1.5, though, I decided to push it a bit and started
> out at about 10:30. That lasted about 40 seconds; I had to bring it
> back down to 12:05 after that, which I maintained for the final 50
> seconds.
>
> According to the iPod, my average pace for jogging and walking combined
> was 15:15
Good for you. Keep up the improvements and you'll be racing soon.
>
> The iPod says that my time was 17:27 (not counting the final walk), but
> my HR monitor says it was 17:31. I know that I started both devices at
> the same time because at 30 seconds they were reading the same. I
> wonder which one is in error (or are they both off?).
I didn't know iPod had a stopwatch feature. And apparantly a pacing
feature?
Interesting.
I wouldn't worry too much about that small an error. Most of it could
easily come from the time to locate and press the right buttons. It is
only 4seconds out of over 1000seconds. Pick one of them to record in
your running log and be consistant.
Again, good to see your progress. Remember, to enjoy the run.
Ed
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Date: 04 Aug 2006 11:43:54
From: Beginning runner
Subject: Re: Up a notch
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In article <1154714196.288331.131020@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com >,
"Ed Prochak" <edprochak@gmail.com > wrote:
> I didn't know iPod had a stopwatch feature. And apparantly a pacing
> feature?
> Interesting.
the iPod Nano has a stopwatch feature. The pacing feature is part of
the Nike+iPod gizmo.
<http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ >
> I wouldn't worry too much about that small an error. Most of it could
> easily come from the time to locate and press the right buttons. It
> is only 4seconds out of over 1000seconds. Pick one of them to record
> in your running log and be consistant.
I'm not worried; I'm from a geeky/techie SQA background, and if I were
working on the product that had the error, I'd be filing a bug report to
the developers/programmers.
As I said, I pushed the buttons simultaneously, and thirty seconds
later, they were still in synch. It could possibly have been pushing
the buttons when I finished, though, but I don't think that I was four
seconds between them.
Thanks for the encouragement. Racing, though, is not a concern; I'm not
saying that it never will be, but right now, I'm jogging for my health.
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Date: 04 Aug 2006 17:10:31
From: Dot
Subject: Re: Up a notch
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Beginning runner wrote:
> In my quest to reach week 3 of couch to 5K, I stepped it up a notch. If
> all goes well, I hope to do week three next week.
>
> I had been doing 1.5/1.5, 2/2 (jog/walk) three times. Today increased
> it to 1.5/1.5, 2.5/2.5 twice followed by one more 1.5/1.5
>
> The good news is that I did it. There isn't any bad news.
>
Congratulations!! You're making progress.
Dot
--
"Success is different things to different people"
-Bernd Heinrich in Racing the Antelope
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Date: 04 Aug 2006 10:12:18
From: Beginning runner
Subject: Re: Up a notch
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In article
<bcLAg.548123$Fs1.362351@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net >,
Dot <dot.h@#duh?att.net > wrote:
> > In my quest to reach week 3 of couch to 5K, I stepped it up a
> > notch. If all goes well, I hope to do week three next week.
> >
> > I had been doing 1.5/1.5, 2/2 (jog/walk) three times. Today
> > increased it to 1.5/1.5, 2.5/2.5 twice followed by one more 1.5/1.5
> >
> > The good news is that I did it. There isn't any bad news.
> >
> Congratulations!! You're making progress.
Thanks. This is the most progress I've made in one step; all the rest
had been more incremental.
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Date: 06 Aug 2006 08:47:55
From: Miss Anne Thrope
Subject: Re: Up a notch
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"There isn't any bad news."
Oh, I beg to differ cream puff..........you decided to write about it.
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