Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Couch to 5K Week 4

It was a dark, cold, and rainy morning so I took myself to the fitness center and ran on the treadmill.  It was a bit harder than I had anticipated.  That could be partially due to the incline I had it set on.  One thing I really like about running on the treadmill is being able to set a pace and not vary from it.  I did my 5 minute warmup walk, and then set it at a 12 minute mile pace and did my first 3 minute run and 5 minute run at that pace.  For the second set I increased the pace to 11:19.  I was trying to run at what felt like the pace I would run outside. 

Todays stats:
I must have run a little slower than usual because I finished the whole routine in 31:42 but only did 2.43 miles.  That's a pace of 13:03 - the slowest I've been in a long time.  I'm chalking that up partly to the incline and partly to not really knowing what pace I run at when I'm outside.

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