Week 5 : Wednesday : Cool Running
DONE!
Day 14 : 5 m warm-up / 8 m jog / 5 m walk / 8 m jog
Total: 26 minutes - walking (10 min) / jogging (16 min)
I was not sure if I was going to be able to do two 8 minute jogs today. I’m glad I ran on Sunday because I wasn’t able to Mon or Tues. But with having two days off before attemptingg the 8 min parts I thought I might not be able to keep it up. Just last week I wasn’t able to finish the last 5 minute part on Wed. But I did it today! I am so proud of myself. 
I added another 4 minutes of walking at the end today to bring my heartrate back down. So I really had 14 min walking / 16 min jogging today.
Friday, however, I’m really not sure about. It’s 20 minutes of straight jogging. I think it might be to just test you out at this point – or push you so you have two days to recover. Next week it goes back to the 5/3/8/3/5 and then works up again to a 25 min jog no walking for Friday. Must be trying to get less walking into between the longer parts in the early parts of the week or building some recovery into it.
Another issue that I know is lingering out there is distance. The program is either running time or distance and I’ve been doing time. But the distance and the time isn’t adding up for me. It was 8 minutes of running or 3/4 mile. I didn’t run 3/4 of a mile in the 8 minutes. If you add up the distance, I should have had 2 miles total but I only got in 1.6. I may up the treadmill speed some next week to help me catch up on the distance some. But not for Friday though… just getting through the 20 minutes of straight jogging will be good enough. lol!
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