As I mentioned before, my previous exercise routine consisted of walking for 30 minutes inside around the hallways at work. Not a good venue for running. And now that the weather has been fairly nice, I wanted to get outside. Before, I was eating my lunch then going for my walks. Not the best for motivation. Especially if I got to talking to someone or reading something or just letting inertia take over. Directly leading to very frequently not achieving my goal of 3 walks a week. In a mental shift that has helped tremendously, I now got workout before I eat.
I work on a military base. Very close to my building is an unused airstrip. So this has become my venue of choice for my workouts. A great feature of the airstrip is that it's mostly level. As working up to a run is daunting enough as it is, I didn't want to have to contend with hills also. Once I've achieved running, I'll start adding in some hillier terrain.
I had to go out and get some new shoes. I had some old, worn-out sneakers. And some made for walking. So I wanted some geared for running. I was interested in the Nike+ shoes which have a place to put a sensor in the shoe that syncs with my iPod Nano.* Then, when I sync my iPod, the data gets uploaded to the Nike+ website where my sessions are tracked. I can set up goals, track my runs, and establish a coaching program. Conveniently, one of the coaching programs is a Walk to Run program. That is the coaching program I am following, with some modifications. The right now, the workouts call for less than 30 minutes, so I modify them to fill 30 minutes. The coaching program runs 6 days a week. I've been able to achieve that so far, but weekends can be a bit crazy for trying to fit in the workout. In fact, in the 17 days I've been doing the training program, I've been able to do a workout for 15 of the days (yea me!).
* All products mentioned are completely unsponsored. I have to buy it myself.
Today's stats:
Workout: 6 minutes walking (W)/4 minutes running (R)/6 W/4 R/5 W/1 R/4 W
Distance: 2.3 miles
Weather: Cloudy
