Blog210K - Week 2
I'm still running. Yesterday, I started week 2 of my running program after doing week 1 for two weeks just to make sure I didn't overdo it to start. Week 2 consists of five, 4 minute runs with a 1 minute walk in between each of the runs. Of course there is still the 5 minute warm up and 5 minute cool down as well so it's a 35 minute workout. To be honest, I was a little worried about running for four minutes straight. I'm not really sure why. I was running 5K's without walking at one point so four minutes shouldn't have intimidated me. I realize it is only one more measly minute, but considering that I was sweatin' the timer for 3 minutes I couldn't imagine tacking on another for each run. But, I DID IT! I ran all five of the 4 minute runs! I'm averaging about 11 min per mile and yesterday I finished 2.5miles. I really would like to try to get to around 10 minute miles, but don't know what to focus on first. When I trained for 5K...