Slight Frustrations

Well, I got up at 5am to go running again and actually got out the door a little sooner than I normally do. Thankfully, it was a really nice morning to run and seemed, if it is possible, even more quiet than normal. The beginning of the 20 minute run went smoothly, but eventually I hit a big hill that slowed me down a little. However, with a few favorite running songs, I powered through and actually ran for 22 minutes straight. 22 MINUTES!!! Which, you would think, would make me uber excited. And it did, for a few minutes, until my ipod told me that I was running at the same pace to finish the 5k as I've done when adding in more walking. It turns out, even with running 22 straight minutes, I still finished the 5k at 39 minutes. What gives? I was pretty annoyed for a few minutes, feeling as though my accomplishment of running 22 minutes is pretty much a wash if I'm still doing a 39 minute 5k. Alas.

After a few minutes of walking/storming back to the house, I figured that I am probably mistaking the results I'm supposed to get from the beginning of my training. Right now, I'm working on being able to continuously run for the distance of a 5k. I'm not working for speed. I think that the reason I can walk/run a 5k so fast is that the walking gives me energy to run much faster for shorter periods of time. So, I'm hopeful that as I learn to run for longer periods, eventually, the quickness will come too and I'll start not only running for longer, but faster too. Hopefully this is true, or else wise I might throw my Ipod at something if in a month it is still giving me 5k times of 39 minutes. We'll see.

Thursday is a new running day and it looks as if W6D1 gives us a break from continuous running and goes back to run/walking, as does W6D2. I'm hopeful that perhaps by W6D3 when I have to run for 25 straight minutes, I'll get the 5k time back below 39 minutes. Until then!