DONE!

Day 15 : 5 m warm-up / 20 m jog

Total: 25 minutes - walking (5 min) / jogging (20 min)

I went into today’s workout with a positive I CAN DO THIS attitude.  I was a bit worried I wouldn’t be able to do all 20 minutes.  The last 5 minutes – especially the last 2 – were tough.  Lots of hard breathing.  But I DID IT!  I jogged the full 20 minutes!  I walked an additional 5 minutes at the end to slow my racing heart rate. So my numbers were 10 minutes walking / 20 minutes jogging.

I am really more jogging than running.  Today’s workout was 20 minutes or 2 miles of running.  I am nowhere close to running 2 miles in 20 minutes.  I am so not running a 10 minute mile right now.  lol!  Closer to a 15 min mile which means I ran 1.5 miles today!!  Next week I may up my speed a little to get that up.

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!

This was my goal list for last week…

Business Goals

• Pick Ad for the July DSO challenge.
  DONE! You can find my July Ad Challenge here.
• Design the DSO challenge freebie to give away.
  DONE! You can find my freebie here too!

• Design freebie for Bunny’s live interview on July 2.  I may cheat with this one and give away papers I already have done… but… if I do that, I’ll try to design some coordinating elements to go with it.
  NOPE. I just couldn’t get to this in time this week so I had to pass on the freebie.  I chose to do an accompanying layout for my July challenge instead and am happy I did!  I love the layout I did for the challenge!

Personal Goals

• Stay on track with my cool running – M-W-Th
  DONE! I’ve been really happy with the cool running program.  I’m up to running 15 minutes out of 26 minutes now.
• Clean something every day for 30 minutes.
  SORT OF - I’m still working on getting this into my daily routine.  I do this 2 or 3 days of the week but not all 5.
• Read for 30 minutes outside every day.  (already got my reading for today in!)
  SORT OF – I read for 3 of the 5 days this week.  Again, I’d like to see this go to all 5 days.  I think I may change the time I read and do it right after I run/blog in the morning.  It’s also cooler that time of day.
• Extra goal – start building a regular routine.  A lot of my goals are actually repeat goals – like the fitness and cleaning… so ultimately I’m looking at creating a pattern with that.
  SORT OF - This is coming along.  Some days are better than others.  There was a day this week where I was stuck at Jiffy Lube for over an hour and I was counting on that time. I know things happen and I’ll go with the flow when they do.  On the other days though, I’m really working to trying to stick with a daily routine of sorts.  Makes me a happier person at the end of the day.

MAIN GOAL -  Design.  Just design. Design… find a rhythm and design.

Moving forward, this is going to be a weekly main goal.  I’m also going to try and build some scrapping time into my week.  I really would like to see some new layouts up in my dining room. LOL!

DONE!

Day 13 : 5 m warm-up / 5 m jog / 3 m walk / 5 m jog / 3 m walk / 5 m jog

Total: 26 minutes - walking (11 min) / jogging (15 min)

I ran today because tomorrow will be a bit crazy for us.  I’m glad I went ahead to week 5′s format this week instead of repeating week 4.  I was able to do run all 5 min parts without walking.  woo hoo!  So I’m on track to have a good week.  Have a Happy 4th!

DONE!

Today I changed up my times. I really wanted to run that 16 minutes but I haven’t been able to get that last 5 minutes as jogging.  So I changed up the times and did it this way.

Day 12 : 5 m warm-up / 5 m jog / 1.5 m walk / 5 m jog / 2.5 m walk / 3 m jog / 1.5 m walk / 3 m jog
(original :  5 m warm-up / 3 m jog / 1.5 m walk / 5 m  jog / 2.5  m walk  / 3 m jog / 1.5 m walk / 5 m jog)

Total: 26.5 minutes - walking (10.5 min) / jogging (16 min) – yay!

With the structure this way, I was able to get all the jogging parts in.  At the end, it’s easier for me to say “it’s only 3 min you can do it” vs “it’s only 5 min”.  Right now, 5 min is still a long time for me running.   This structure worked better for me and I was able to complete the longer stretches when I was fresher.  woo hoo!  I may have been able to do it the other way with the 5 min at the end, but I didn’t want try it just in case.

I was planning on repeating this week’s structure one more week, but after looking at week 5′s routine, I’m just going to move ahead.  Next week is 5/5/3/5/3/5 – which to me is actually better – shorter time (running/15 min – walking/11 min)  But the running is all done in 5 minute increments and I think that is where the real change will come.  So I’m just going to move to week 5 with the idea that if I need to repeat a week, I’ll repeat week 5.   I’ve been very happy with how this has been progressing for me.

I decided a few weeks ago that I wanted to separate my “design” and my “personal” blogging.  My personal blog is very boring and lately all I’ve been using it for is to keep track of my running and my goal lists.   Maybe I post some photos every so often or rambling thoughts… but what fun is that? lol!

So I created a blog especially for my design posts.  If you are interested in keeping up with my new designs, challenges or layouts, go over to Jen Reed Designs.   Feel free to sign-up to receive posts via e-mail.  I LOVE e-mail subscriptions for blogs because I never find myself in my blog reader lately.  It’s always nice to get an email and read/delete.  lol!

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Also… I’m running a monthly Ad Challenge at DSO now. July’s challenge is up and running!  Come join us!

Here is my layout for the challenge.