Race Countdown

Monday, August 29, 2011

Workout 1, Week (7) 8

Duration: 30 minutes

Warm up: 5 Minutes

Interval: 8 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 4 minutes running.....not sure what happened after here. Just ran by listening to my body.

Reps: 1

Distance covered: 3.07 km

Pace: 6.14 km/hr

Difficulty: first time running after more than a week off.

Calories burned: 250

Monday, August 15, 2011

Workout 1, Week 6

Duration: 29 minutes

Warm up: 5 Minutes

Interval: 5 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 8 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 5 minutes running

Reps: 1

Distance covered: 3.00 km

Pace: 6.20 km/hr

Difficulty: Fastest average pace so far! If I can keep this up I should be able to run a 5k in 48 minutes.

Calories burned: 268

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Workout 2, Week 5

Duration: 26 minutes

Warm up: 5 Minutes

Interval: 8 minutes running, 5 minutes walking, 8 minutes running

Reps: 1

Distance covered: 2.62 km

Pace: 6.04 km/hr

Difficulty: 8 minute intervals!!! Easy-peasy at 4-4.2 miles/hour. Need to work on speed as I am not gaining much distance when I run for equal times.

Calories burned: 212

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Workout 1, Week 5

Duration: 26 minutes

Warm up: 5 Minutes

Interval: 5 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 5 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 5 minutes running

Reps: 1

Distance covered: 2.60 km

Pace: 6 km/hr

Difficulty: First time running 3 5-minute intervals. Could have picked up the pace a bit but will attempt that next time.

Calories burned: 217

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Workout 2, Week 4

Duration: 26.5 minutes

Warm up: 5 Minutes

Interval: 3 minutes running, 1.5 minutes walking, 5 minutes running, 2.5 minutes walking

Reps: 2

Distance covered: 2.59 km

Pace: 5.86 km/hr

Difficulty: Ran a little slower today and had a lower heart rate overall. Need to push further next time. Workout 3 this week will be outside!

Calories burned: 220

Workout 3, Week 4

Duration: 26.5 minutes

Warm up: 5 Minutes

Interval: 3 minutes running, 1.5 minutes walking, 5 minutes running, 2.5 minutes walking

Reps: 2

Distance covered: 2.68 km

Pace: 6.06 km/hr

Difficulty: Took almost a whole week off (crap!) so started back where I was last week. Had very little difficult picking up where I left off. Hooray! Total workout with cooldown was 2.92 km in 30min with 259 calories burned.

Calories burned: 237