Couch 2 5k–Week 7

Since I have failed day 3 for weeks 5 and 6 and since week 7 (and 8 and 9) are just solid running, I had to improvise.  Since week 9 (the last week) of the training has you running for 30 minutes I still need to keep that as an end goal.  With that in mind I decided just to try to run 1 more minute each day until I get to 30 minutes.  I only made it 16 minutes last week so I used that as my starting point.  This will push the training out to 11 weeks but so be it.  I cannot let my failures thus far stop me from continuing on.  With that in mind, here is what I ran this week…

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3
Jogged 17 1/2 minutes	Jogged 18 minutes	Jogged 19 minutes

Monday was pretty easy (hence the extra 30 seconds).  Actually every day was easier than I thought it would be.  Oh, I still entertained thoughts of stopping early at around the 14 minute mark each day but I pressed on instead.

I made myself a long mp3 file of mostly hard rock / heavy metal.  Ministry, The Offspring, Nirvana and Klank kept me going.  As a marker for how long I had ran, I found a wav file with the numbers 1 through 20 in Spanish and put the appropriate number at each minute interval.  So, every minute I get an update of how far I have gone and how far I have yet to go (using some quick mental math).  I am still encouraged and in 4 weeks I should be at my goal.  I have not picked out the 5k race that I am going to run yet.

Jon