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Evening run

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Woo! I just beat the sundown and got in a decent 30-min run to my own music (yaaaay!) out and about in the neighborhood. The run was just slightly easier than last time and I’m beginning to sense that I am in fact ready to run farther and/or faster, which I totally would if 1.) I didn’t tire so fast and 2.) I had confidence I’d be able to hold that speed for the whole workout without my lungs wanting to burst out of my chest. But just playing it safe and easy won’t get me anywhere, either!

On the way back home I saw a guy walking his dog just kind of stopped in the middle of the sidewalk ahead of me; I slowed as I approached and he said “that’s a RAT,” gesturing at the sidewalk. I saw a little gray rat curled up in a ball ahead of him and stepped a wide path around it gingerly. It was almost kind of cute, but I don’t know what that dude was doing with his dog just standing there staring at it…

Overall I never felt at any point like I wanted to crawl off to the side of the road and die; my lungs felt pretty good and my legs stayed on (as opposed to burning off midway through the run haha), and nothing really seemed to bother me. I didn’t have the podcast cues to tell me my last minute but I tried to pick up the pace for the final song in my playlist.

Once I start the actual 10k training plan next week I’m gonna need to figure out exactly how long I’m running, since at that point it will be for distance rather than time… I’m plotting things out via mapmyrun.com but having a Garmin or something like that would really help with the next phase of my “training;” I could just take off without really worrying about plotting a course, and just engage (:P) and watch the Garmin for my distance.

Since I don’t have $150-200 extra bucks burning a hole in my pocket I may have to go with the mapmyrun method for awhile… but I would like to get a Garmin eventually, maybe some point before my first race!

Couch-to-5k week 3.2 redux: Feeling pretty good!

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I hit up the gym after work today and decided I would push myself a little bit more than I have been doing. This is still the walk 5 min, then jog 2 min, walk 2 min, jog 3 min, walk 3 min, repeat, cooldown part of the plan, and I did all the walking at 3.5 mph and the running I upped to 4.7mph, which according to the treadmill was about a 12 min mile – so I’m not far off from a 10-min-mile pace! I tried to relax as much as possible and make my steps as light as I could and I was feeling good. When the time would come to walk I wasn’t gasping and slogging into it like I’d never jogged in my life, and in fact the walking seemed to be reaaaallly slooooow. I managed to keep this up throughout the 30 minutes and even practiced kicking up my heels a bit more (I feel kind of like I just sluff my feet along) for the last running bit.

Afterward I stretched for a few minutes and then meandered back to the locker room feeling pretty good, my legs weren’t sore at all and I’ve pretty much beaten the foot pain (though I do feel like I’m sliding in the shoes a little bit still). And MAN do I need to get some new capri running pants… these new balance ones are comfy but they seriously add 20 pounds. I caught myself in the big weight lifting mirror on the way downstairs and wanted to gag. I hear the spandexy capris are best but I think I will save the world from that view of my flabby bum until I’ve been running awhile longer :P

I also redid my running playlist somewhat after the difficulties I wrote about earlier and this is what I have now:

1. I ran (so far away) – Flock of Seagulls
2. Heart of the country – Paul McCartney
3. Be more – Paul Dateh
4. Telephone – Lady Gaga (short version :P)
5. Don’t stop till you get enough – Michael Jackson
6. Man we was lonely – Paul McCartney
7. Dead man (carry me) – Jars of Clay
8. Starstruck – Lady Gaga (I love the video I have linked here YAY Zenyatta)
9. Harder, better, faster, stronger – Daft Punk (another sweet vid)
10. Womanizer – Britney Spears
11. Nausea – Beck
12. Withered hope – They Might Be Giants (awesome dancy TMBG song)
13. Bills, bills, bills – Jonathan Coulton (vid is a live version, I was at this show!)
14. Top 40 remix – Paul Dateh (awesome vid, srsly go watch it)
15. Hello – Bill Hilly Band (sadly cannot find a vid of this)
16. Single Ladies – Beyonce
17. Mrs. Vanderbilt – Paul McCartney (vid is a live version – I was at this show too! :O)
18. Hide and seek – Namie (bonus: here is a SWEET wow vid set to this song, and I mean sweet)
19. Let em run – Bill Hilly Band
20. Check the rhime – Tribe Called Quest
21. Poker face – Lady Gaga
22. Toxic – Britney Spears
23. The fixer – Pearl Jam
24. Come as you were – the Bird and the Bee (such a floaty ethereal bouncy song)
25. Blood on the dance floor – Michael Jackson
26. Bodysnatchers – Radiohead
27. Space suit – They Might Be Giants (awesome cooldown song… haha)

YAy! so hopefully this works a little better :D AS you can tell my taste in music is kind of all over the place, I pretty much like everything but country, gangsta rap, soft cheesy rock, and that kind of thing.. pretty much anything else I’ll give a listen to :>