w4d3

Level up! :-D I 'graduated' week 4 today whoohooo!!! And this is a week that many people either drop out or that they have to repeat many times. It seems like I won't need to do either. Yeah! Woohooo!!

After w4d2 my knees hurt quite badly. The whole day after the run my right knee hurt, and the following day my left knee hurt - first on the right side of it, then on the right side....uh? Confusing LOL So instead of going for a run on the day I was supposed to go, I took a day off and I went this morning instead. I think that was a good idea. I had no trouble with my knees.

I'm really feeling how the muscles in my legs are getting stronger now, and I suppose my knee muscles are having to adjust also. I notice that I don't land on my heel ever anymore, so I suppose the impact isn't all that big on my knees, but they still have to deal with me shifting my weight (and quelle weight LOL) in a different way, so...I don't know. It's probably growing pains.
I think it was the same for my shin muscles. I don't feel them at all anymore these days, whereas I remember that they gave me hell the first two weeks!

Let's hope the knee pain stays away or else I might have to repeat week 4 after all! :-S

But for now.... Woohooo!!! Done with week 4!!

The first two runs were difficult (as always); my breathing was laboured and my muscles were like "...you know what? Nah, let's just walk." But then halfway through the second run (the first 5 min. one) I began to feel good and my breathing leveled and my muscles stopped complaining and I just ran. The other two runs were fine.
Half way into the last 5 min. run a woman and her dog stopped us for a chat and a sniff (woman & me --> chat; Tobi and dog --> sniff) and so I missed the last two-and-a-half minutes of the last run. I started running again when the Getting Running app lady told me to start the cooling down. So instead I ran those five minutes.
Technically my intervals were like this then: 3 min run; 90 sec walk; 5 min run; 90 sec walk; 3 min run; 90 sec walk; 2.30 min run; 2.30 min standstill; 5 min run LOL

Oh well..it happens :-) And Tobi had the chance to make a new (huuuuge) doggie friend :-D
Tobi was brilliant again this whole run. He listened well and he ran along brilliantly.
We ran towards the labyrinth in the forrest today, which is one of my favourite places in this whole world.
It looks like the total of my walking to the forrest, running in the forrest and walking from the forrest to my house again is a total of 6 kilometers! Wow :-)

interlude of me doing calculations-----------don't read if you want to keep your sanity ----------
The running and intervals themselves seem to take me 2.26 kilometers at the moment. Well well! Nearly half of what the end result should be! And I'm about half way into the training anyway! So I now 'run&walk" 2.26 kilometers in 20:30 minutes -- which means that altogether my pace is about 110 meters per minute, which is 6,6 km per hour, which means that if I were to try running 5 kilometers right now, I will need to run for about 45 minutes. That's not even all that bad haha That is my end goal to run it in under 45 minutes, so I won't even have to run all that more fast than I do now! Whoo!!
I'm going to try to run to a 150 bpm from now on, so I can train my lungs to run at a good pace as well.
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All in all a great run! The wheather was lovely too. Looking forward to week 5! I lost a tiny bit of weight (a pound) and not at all because I'm eating less (at all LOL quite the opposite at the moment), so I suppose all this moving is doing me some good haha And it feels absolutely great.