Haven’t run for a while so picked up on my C25K training where I left off.

Maybe slower than previous, but made it most of the way – dropped to a walk early on run #4

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Today’s temperature was 30degC according to Google….

And I did my C25K runs in this heat….

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Cloudy and slightly drizzly run today.

Played some Eurobeat on Spotify and that was fun keeping time to the beat. Annoyingly Spotify removed the running mode which allowed me an auto-playlist of specific BPM tracks. Now I have no idea what music to play to help keep pace. Spotify have added some static playlists giving a range of BPM, but that doesn’t work as well.

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c25k training. A relatively warm but not overly-hot today. Week 3 runs. 1.5 min run/1.5 min walk, then 3.0 min run/3.0 min walk, then repeat for 4 run/walk intervals.

Felt worked out, but not overly pushed for some reason….

FitBit and ZenLabs were in disagreement about the distance I ran again – ZenLabs said 4.1 km, FitBit said 3.59

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Nice sunny day for running, but my Fitbit Blaze kept losing it’s connected GPS to my phone. My previous watch (Surge) had inbuilt GPS so this didn’t happen.  Possibly the FitBit service was being killed because of Spotify….

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Forgot to log this yesterday. App tracked 3.1km, Fitbit tracked 4.1km

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Starting week 2’s runs

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Final run of the week 1 series. For some reason the app tracked me at just over 1km, but fitbit tracked me at 4km. Probably quirky gps.

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Week 1, Day 2 of the C25K today.

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Also spotted some pigeons cleaning themselves in a puddle

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Back to doing my C25K again and definitely slower. Strava flagged this run as the slowest I’ve done on the route since linking Fitbit to Strava :(

Depressing, but as they say, “When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up”

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God, I am pretty damn out of shape :/

Think I need to get back to doing C25K again -_-

Decided to try my interval training run on Fitbit. Ended up walking during the recovery jogs instead of jogging.

It’s been a while since I did any decent runs, and today being a good sunny day I decided to go for it.

And shocked by how bad I was :(

I was following Fitbit’s workout which was 2x 12 minute jogs separated by a 90 min rest, then a 3 minute run at the end with a cooldown at the end of the workout. I stopped several times during the runs which annoyed me.

Got the two 12 minute runs down but didn’t do the three minute run at the end.

After being out of training for a long while due to illness, I decided to fork out on Fitbit Coach and start using some of their workouts.

Today I decided to go out and try their walking workouts – an audio-driven workout around power walking

Redid the last Week 9 run and made it through two intervals and just shy of the third.

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Finally finished Week 9. Interval three was a difficult one and my pace went from 5:30min/km to 7:33min/km >_<

Contemplating whether to move onto Week 10 or redo week 9 until I can meet the pace.

Tried a different route today. Still sore from the hour run yesterday. This new route turns out to be just under 5k, though I’m not sure it’s right, since my Fitbit seemed to lose communication with my phone so didn’t track the route properly. Guess I’ll try again tomorrow maybe.

Still, I got two achievements on the run which was two PRs on segments on the run (which were tracked properly)

Finally did the next run in the 5 to 10 k. Still hurts when I run for an hour, and a tried slightly a different running route. Just over 8k today. Have no idea why the app registered only 5.7k.

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First run of the 5 to 10K section and it’s a lot harder.

4x 10-minute runs, with only a 1 minute rest in between. 7K measured by the app, 8.8km measured by Fitbit.

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Completed ZenLabs C25K and now looking at the 10K trainer. First run of Week 9 (it continues the C25K plan) is a near-hour set of 10 minutes runs O_O

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First run of the final week and ended up dropping to a walk near the end of the 28 minutes. Disappointed, even though I was slow-jogging and making a pace of about 5:30 min/km on average for the main kms in the middle..

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Final run of week 7’s set of runs. Next one is week 8 – two 28min runs, then the 5k/30min run.

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Second day of 25min run. Didn’t manage to run as far as yesterday, but nearly made the 5k

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First long run since my week away. 25 minutes running non stop and my body screamed at me to stop at 4km. Busted through and did one more round, taking it to 5.6 km. Strava logged it as 5.9 km, with moving time of 39:49, with a best km time of 5:24 min/km.

I was using the Spotify running playlist to keep my cadence steady and it showed.

The first and last kilometres were the warm up and cool down walks, hence the skewed time.

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Attempted to start Week 7 runs (which are 5 min warm up, 20+ min run, 5 min cooldown) – and today fell short by walking at 23 mins of 25 :(

Will try again tomorrow.