5 miles at 11 minute pace

Counting warm up and cool down went just over 5 miles in about 56 minutes, 9/4 intervals.  Pretty sure I'll be able to maintain that pace for the Peachtree.  I still have a problem starting at too fast a pace.  I end tool walking more than my planned intervals because I burn out a little.  My phone isn't bad at telling me average pace, but if I set it to tell me current pace it's useless. 

Death of the iPod

Water got into the crack in the screen.  Took it apart and dried it, but the little wire that controls the touch screen snapped.  Luckily I have my phone.  Not as good for some stuff but has GPS, which it's nice for the running apps.

Yesterday was almost 4 in 46 minutes, including warm up/cool down.  About 3.4 in 36 for the run/walk segments.  And that was with rolling my ankle about 1.5 miles in.  Tomorrow will be 4ish at Peachtree wave start time.  Saturday it's 5.5.  Then I walk 2 or 3 times before the big day.

A day late and not quite as fast as I wanted

Skipped the run yesterday.  Just didn't want to get out of bed when the alarm went off so I stayed in bed.  Managed to get up today though.  Didn't quite make my goal of 4.5 in 50, was actually 4.7 in 56.  I'll take it.  That gets me close to what I want to hit for the Peachtree.  And it's close to the pace I had this time last year so that's better than I expected.

Ran about the first mile and a quarter then held the intervals for about 12 minutes.   At that point the legs were hurting and the back was starting to so I would walk 3 seconds past the back pain stopping and the run until it was bad again.  Did remember my posture better so that helped the back.  Overall pretty happy about it.  Probably could have been better hydrated, but still a good run.

Three more runs and a walk or two before the Peachtree.  This is the first day I haven't been dreading it. 

Just shy of 4 miles

Longest total distance in a year.  Not a great run but not bad.  Slower than my goal pace, that's because my Nike sensor was out of calibration so I thought I was going faster than I was.

Tomorrow I try for 4.5 miles in 50  minutes.

Longest straight run since I got back

Broke the 1 mile mark.  Total running was 2.25 with a little under a mile of walking. 
Run was planned as intervals but I choose to run when the first walk interval came up.  Ran through the second run and most of the second walk as well. 
One of those good days that everything was working well, just a little back pain after about 15 minutes.

Lot of miles

Six workouts in 9 days.  Almost 20 miles.  Lots of back pain and a shoe change.  Going to increase my runs and add some core work. 
I'm still stuck on 3 to 4 minutes of running before I have to walk.  Should have just done the c25k over instead of making up a plan.  Think the shoes hurt as well, literally and figuratively.

What a crappy day

One of those days that everything hurts pretty much from the start and doesn't get better as you keep running.  I was really hoping that today would be more like Monday, which wasn't perfect, but was a pretty good 3.25 miles. 

Had trouble breathing at the 4 minute point then started coughing.  Almost called it right then but I was at a walk interval so I decided to walk it off and see.  Ran again and no coughing so thinking this won't be bad.  Leg pain started soon after and wouldn't stop.    Then the back was hurting.  Not sure how much was mental and how much was actual pain.

I'm starting to think the minimalist shoe experiment was a failure.  As my distances get longer, the pain increases.  I suppose it might be that I didn't spend enough time getting my body used to them over the first few weeks.  Regardless, I need to get a new pair of normal shoes to get through the Peachtree before I try minimalist shoes again.