Eventually

We were two 30 minute runs in to completing week 9 of C25K and then unfortunately I was laid-up for 5 days.  I wasn't sure after so many rest days, and only just feeling better, I would manage 30 minutes for the next run, but hey, I surprised myself and indeed managed to run for the 30 minutes.

I think the hard work is now going to start as we need to try and keep running 3 times a week.

Scary news is that the provisional dates for Craggy Island have been released and it will be early in the new year when entries open.

Nearly there

Well, week 8 sees us doing 3 non-stop 28 minute runs.  We have been doing the usual street run during the week and then on Saturday we went round the loch again.  This time I ran with Laura and managed the 28 minutes.  I even ran past people who were cycling, although I do have to admit that the lady looked about 60 and as though it had been 58 years since she had been on a bike!

I guess it's not rocket science that next week will see us doing 3 non-stop 30 minute runs - I just hope that I can keep going for those extra minutes.

We seem to be lucky with the weather - another dry run in what was a very wet week.

I am very impressed

In little over a month my wife has gone from struggling to run for 90 seconds to last night running non stop for 28 minutes, and covering around 4.5km.  I am amazed by the improvement and also by her commitment to the process.  She is not a sporty person so I know that this has been really hard work for her and it is almost impossible for me to get over to her how impressed I am.  She even talked about failure the other day, just because she only managed to run for 25 minutes into a strong headwind - failure? THAT'S NOT FAILURE!!

We have decided to try to keep running for 30 minutes three times a week until Christmas time, just to consolidate what we have done so far.  Then we'll think about adding in some swimming at the local pool, saving the cycling for the better weather and some light.  It gets dark here at 4pm from now til March.  

walkjogrun

We are using walkjogrun.net to check on distances, times, heights and so on.  It's easy to use and much better than trying to work things out from OS maps.

Pushing the envelope

Week 7 now completed.  Three 25 minute non-stop runs.

Now that the clocks have changed it is dark when I get home, we thought the park we ran round was quite well lit and this is where we did the first run; the park is not that well lit!

Run number two was pounding the streets where at least we had street lamps lighting our way, but, the hard tarmac was quite tough going.

Run three, the envelope pusher, was a run round a local loch.  Hubby decided our own music compilation would be good to run to and it was to begin with; however, 'Touch Too Much' was just a touch too long for me and I had to walk through 'Chelsea Dagger' - picked up again for 'Rock and Roll' and 'Highway to Hell'.  Maybe I need to stick with Laura to get me to the end of 25 minutes.