C25K Week 4

This week, the intervals change to 90s run, 90s walk, 3min run, 3min walk, then repeat. The app drops the last walk because the cool down doesn't need to come after a walk, so the total time without warm up and cool down is 15 minutes. The last 2 weeks have been 19 minutes, making this week considerably shorter.

Week 4, Day 1: Pretty good. Managed to pace myself right around the 9-minute/mile pace even through the 3 minute runs. Ran my usual course, though, and came up almost half-mile short of where I used to start the cool down. Didn't think about the shortened time. Wound up doing another 3 minute run during the cool down just to get closer to home. Distance: 1.36 miles

Week 4, Day 2: Definitely feeling better, though running at noon pretty much sucks. Adjusted my route to better fit the time frame. Unfortunately, I was having issues with the cell phone data network being slow or something because Pandora was majorly slow in loading between songs, which made it tougher to maintain a pace. Then, when I finished, the dumb thing said I had run 6.45 miles! Boy, don't I wish. 6.45 miles in 15 minutes is like a 2:30 pace. It turns out that the GPS had glitched and put me a couple of miles away for a second, so one of my intervals had a pace of 0:09! So, sadly, I don't know how far I ran...

Week 4, Day 3: Yes, morning is much cooler than midday. first 90 second interval was horrible. The timing made it all uphill and my pace was almost 11:00. :-/ After that, though, it got a lot better. managed to keep it close to 8:30 on each running interval. Distance: 1.42 miles.

Week 4, Day 4: Seriously??? 3167 miles??? I burned 41 million calories? I expect to see some results on the scale tomorrow... Stupid GPS. I know I kept a decent pace because I finished a few hundred feet further up the road than yesterday. Distance: 1.45-1.5 miles.