Date: 02 Oct 2006 08:16:18
From: Beginning runner
Subject: Week 4, Day 1
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Over the weekend, I decided to go for broke regarding week four today.
The incremental approach was getting to me, and I figured that I had a
very good chance of attaining week 4's goal directly. I also figured
that if I couldn't do it, I wouldn't fall short by much, and would be
able to complete it by the end of the week.
Well, as you can see from the subject, I did it. (quote lyrics from "You
Did It" from My Fair Lady here.)
Time: 21:31
Distance: 1.54 miles
Pace: 13:58 (nine seconds off my best pace, but for 2.5 minutes and .17
miles longer)
By contrast, here is what I did when I first tried to do week 4:
The program calls for splits of 3 min, 5 min, 3 min, and 5 min,
separated by walks equal to half the time of the run preceding it. I
felt that those walks were not long enough for my condition, so I chose
to make the walks equal to the runs. Well, I did that, but...
The first three-minute run posed little in the way difficulty, but all I
could do for the first five minute run was three minutes. I followed
that by a three-minute walk; at that point I decided to make the next
two splits three minutes, but if I felt that I could do more than three
on the fourth split, I'd go for that.
Nope; the third split was 2:30 (followed by a 2:30 walk), and the fourth
split was 2:10.
Distance: 1.23 miles
Time: 19:10
Pace: 15:30
That was on August 28th.
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