Zombie 5k Week Three

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:

http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2014/07/zombie-5k.html

I need to figure out how to use google voice to record my thoughts on my drive home, and convert them to text.  I'm working on that.  It's so insanely busy around here, getting ready for football season, and our sons wedding, I am not making the time to write down my thoughts after a work out as frequently as I would like.  

I don't know what is up with the pace?

Using a calculator, I come up with 18.50 a mile.  Better than week two!

44.33 divided by 2.31 is 19.28 - not 23.26?  

I'm not sure why the pace is not calculating correctly.  Unless that's my pace when I hit stop mission?

Overall, I am truly loving this program.  So much.  

I don't like to pay for apps.  I paid $1.99 for this one, and honestly, it is worth so much more.  This is like a $10 app.  Really.  It's worth it.

Two and 1/4 miles in 43 minutes?  I walk faster than that.  It is frustrating for me - last year I was jogging this entire path, this year I can't even jog full sections of the exact same path.  Mostly I am having trouble breathing, but today my muscles hurt too.  I'm starting to think I should start the program over.  I feel like i"m just to the point of fitness where if I did this again now I could maybe do it "right"?  I worry that I walk WAY too much of the free run portions.  I'm feeling certain that at the end of eight weeks there is no way I will be running 3 miles.

But every step in this program is so much better than nothing at all - even if I don't do it well enough, at least I'm trying.  I can always start again once I finish it.  I won't give up - but I do hope I can do better.

Compared to the C25K Program:

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then do two repetitions of the following:

• Jog 200 yards (or 90 seconds)
• Walk 200 yards (or 90 seconds)
• Jog 400 yards (or 3 minutes)
• Walk 400 yards (or three minutes)

(at this point, I don't think I could complete the training above.)

https://www.zombiesrungame.com/

Overview  & About Me

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Week Four

Week Five

Week Six

Week Seven

Week Eight

Zombie 5k Week Two

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:

http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2014/07/zombie-5k.html

Week Two

Week 2 of Zombie5k adds heel lifts after 30 second runs. 

Roughly 1.9 miles today. 

I'm really loving this program.

After this run, I was walking back into the house and dropped my phone, shattering the screen.  It broke before this run synced so I am glad I had uploaded this pic to facebook before I drove home.  However, this run is now not marked as complete on my new phone - that will drive me nuts, and I'm likely to go back and redo it.

Notice my distances are shorter and shorter..  partly due to the very high humidity, but also because the longer I "run" the slower my overall time.  

We missed one of our regular work out days, because of schedule issues, and then major storms in our area.  I'm off schedule, and it makes me a little nuts.

Had a rough time this morning. Forgot my inhaler. Super humid. But loved the "extras" in the story today - it stays interesting. I wasn't prepared for the extra long run at the end though- I thought my phone had stopped working.  

I don't always catch what they are giving me at the end of the broadcasts.  Probably in part because I'm breathing so hard it's hard to hear anything.  :-)  It's nice that a picture of the gift is shown on the board when the workout is complete.  It's the little details like that that make me REALLY love this program.  Although I'm still not exactly sure what the point is in collecting all of this stuff..  maybe after I listen to the intro that I missed at the beginning, that will make a bit more sense?

Missed another work out day.  This means I am now TWO work outs behind, & when I switched to a temporary phone while my phone was broken, I forgot to sync the app before I switched back to my new phone.  So I'm 2 work outs behind, and my phone shows another 2 as incomplete.  I'm torn between doing this every day to catch up, and just starting over... 

I'm really worried that I am not working quite hard enough.  I'm pretty sure the Zombie would have gotten me.  In the free runs, I am mostly walking.

Compared To The C25K Program:
Brisk five-minute warmup walk. 
Then alternate 90 seconds of jogging and two minutes of walking for a total of 20 minutes.

https://www.zombiesrungame.com/

Overview  & About Me

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Week Four

Week Five

Week Six

Week Seven

Week Eight

Zombie 5k Week One

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:

http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2014/07/zombie-5k.html

Week One

First morning running the zombie 5 k training.  It's  a lot different  than the coutch to 5k. I'm liking it.  You walk for 1 minute run for 15 seconds.  It doesn't sound like much, but it's harder than I expected. When it was over, I felt really good.  I don't love running, but I love the way I feel when I at least attempt running regularly.

The story line is minor - it doesn't interfere much, and it plays your playlist between talks.  It might all make more sense if you watch The Walking Dead, but that's just a guess.  I tried two episodes of that show and would rather be eaten by zombies, or run, than sit through another.  Zombies are really not my thing.  Even so, this is interesting, simply in that it is different.  I've done the c25k so many times, I was ready for something different.

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I used the accelometer, Dan used the GPS mode.  His recorded that he went 2.18 miles.  Mine says 6km - over 3 miles.   We weren't together the whole time, but I'm pretty certain his is closer to correct.  I switched mine to gps/miles for next time.  (The horses were out when I got up this morning,  so I was running late & didn't have time to look at the app settings before I left.)

Compared To The C25K Program:

Brisk five-minute warmup walk.

 Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.

https://www.zombiesrungame.com/

Overview  & About Me

Week One

Week Two

Week Three

Week Four

Week Five

Week Six

Week Seven

Week Eight

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Making Mountain Pies

Mountain Pies are typically two pieces of white bread, buttered, with filling between them, cooked over a campfire, in a mountain pie maker.

Popular combinations are:

Pizza - pizza sauce, pepperoni, cheese

Pie - Any pie filling (some like cheese with their apple pie filling)

Smores - Marshmallow & chocolate.

But you can really put just about anything in a Mountain Pie.

Tonight we did Chocolate Raspberry, & Bruschetta & Cheese - both using crescent dough in place of the white bread

Crescent Dough, Raspberries, a marshmallow cut in half, an some chocolate.

Crescent dough, bruschetta, cheese, dried oregano & basil

On the fire

They probably should have cooked for another minute or two.  They were good, but they could have been better...

Raspberry on the left, bruschetta on the right

What I'm Reading - Wednesday July 16 2014

What I Am Currently Reading:

Summer Lightning by P G Wodehouse

What  I Recently Finished Reading:

The Secret Life of Vivian  Grant

While this is my favorite type of book - historical references, switching between current day and the past, with a light mystery in the plot..  I just did not really enjoy this particular book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656055-invisible

(I also finished Invisible by James Patterson, and I loved that one!)

What I Think I Might Read Next:

I just loaded my aldiko bookshelf with every book I have that has the word "summer" in the title.  Some of them I read a few pages of and deleted without finishing.  I think I'll probably try Summers Child by Diane Chamberlain next.  

To Play along, just go to:

http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/

And answer these questions:

• What are you currently reading?

• What did you recently finish reading?

• What do you think you’ll read next?