Kate,

You know I have to do this for both of us now.

I'm sure there will be a way for you to get in some exercise, especially after the first week or two and you start feeling better.

I had to run up 3-4 flights of stairs in the subway today to try to catch a train. I noticed when I got to the top that I was less winded, and my legs weren't as close to giving out. Results already!

I also notice that I'm planning the night before when to fit in my jogging. It's getting in my head.

Pedometer for the day (not including apartment roaming this morning and tonight after I post this - that would give me a few hundred more steps):

4575 steps
1.877 miles
164.4 calories
47:53 minutes

Other: 40 situps; stretching. My legs are hardly sore from yesterday, despite that yesterday was the first day of week two and slightly longer periods of jogging.

That's all good news! I am looking forward to the "not getting winded." Every time I arrive into Penn Station and I walk down to the subway I get there just as the A express uptown is pulling in. And I always think "J would run for this" and then I let it go by and end up standing around waiting for the next one.

Also good to hear that your legs are not as sore now. You will soon be a running machine!

KK

Week two, workout two.

It almost seemed harder than Monday. I ran earlier - late morning - before I ate, although I had a cup of unsweetened chocolate soy milk beforehand. Although I hadn't eaten for several hours when I ran on Monday, I wonder if it's easier on my system to run a couple of meals into the day.

Stats:

3914 steps
1.606 miles
140.6 cals
30:14 minutes

again, very similar. If nothing else, my pedometer seems to be consistent. I'm still surprised that the distance isn't a bit longer. I used the same route as Monday.

Rest of day pedometer stats:

6203 steps
2.545 miles
222.9 cals
1:02:27 hours

Total for today:
10117 steps
3.151 miles
363.5 cals
1:32:41 hours

forgot to do situps today.

Yesterday's pedometer:

5735 steps
2.353 miles
206.1 cals
53:27 minutes

Friday's pedometer:

8010 steps
3.286 miles
287.8 cals
1:22:11 hours

jogging to come shortly.

Couch to 5k, week 2, workout 3.

I just couldn't do this yesterday, and it was starting to freak me out. Then I realised that only I was telling myself that it *had* to be M-W-F. Saturday is still part of this week.

Again, the program was
-5 minute warmup walk
then 20 minutes of alternating:
-90 seconds jogging
-2 minutes walking

This works out to six cycles of the jog/walk - just over 20 minutes. Unfortunately, I had an urgent bathroom stop in the middle, so my workout was interrupted a bit - I did do six, or possibly seven full cycles, though, plus a little, so the full time and distance was longer. I then did some shopping before I got back to the house, so some of the steps are aimless walking around the supermarket.

On Monday, I was surprised at how easy the longer jogging times felt. Wednesday felt more difficult - I did not feel like I was doing well, and I was apprehensive about having only one more session before increasing the distances. Today, I kept losing track of the time because it didn't feel like I had been running long enough during each segment. The walking times - two minutes - felt too long. So I think I'm ready to move on to week three.

Also, today, like Monday, I ran after having eaten (and eaten some bread, at that). Weds. was before I ate a full meal at all in the day. I'm going to try to track this. Morning running may not be the optimal time for me.

Stats:
5596 steps
2.296 miles
201.1 calories
48:59 minutes

If only I had realised that I could move the run to another day, maybe I wouldn't have broken my leg! Good job for sticking with it for another week!

The stats are short this morning, for week 3, day 1. No time to puzzle now. Tonight.

Stats:
2313 steps
.949 miles
83.1 cals (yeah, right)
17:39 minutes

Pedometer stats for the rest of yesterday:
9502 steps
3.899 miles
341.4 cals
1:31:23 hours

Total stats for yesterday:

11815 steps
4.848 miles
424.5 cals
1:49:04

I still don't know what happened with the run yesterday. Week three, day one is the following pattern:

Brisk five-minutes 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 3 minutes)

I skimped a bit on the warmup walk, so it was more like two minutes. I then did two cycles of the above, counting time instead of miles, which if my math is right, would be 18 minutes. At the end I did one more jog 90 seconds/walk 90 seconds because it didn't seem very long. I even went back afterwards and went through my times - ie I started jogging at 7:05, then walked at 7:06:30, etc. (I have a photographic memory that lasts for about a day, so I wrote down what the times should have been and then compared it to a replay of looking at the times in my head) , and I did the full cycles. Don't know. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

hey, that's a lot of steps! When I got my pedometer, I remember reading that 10,000 steps per day is supposed to be good, and I don't think I ever got near it more than once, and it was a little over 5 miles.

Today (make that Tuesday):

8070 steps
3.311 miles
290 cals
1:17:40 hours

I learned to touch type when I was in 9th grade (on a typewriter, thank you very much), but I never learned the numbers. I suppose it would help if I turned on the light, but I can close my eyes (better in my current state) and type the rest. Numbers suck.

Wednesday pedometer:

3155 steps
1.294 miles
113.3 cals
34:23 minutes

truly pathetic.

Off to run in the rain. And pick up a headlight for the car in the process.

Well, I jogged today, but my pedometer threw a fit and refused to register that I was actually MOVING. Either that or some kind of time warp was going on. I would walk or run a full block, and it would be reading the same. Of course, I didn't have my iPod this time, so I couldn't even see that I was timing myself properly. To top things off, I ran a different route because I had to go to an auto parts store and pick up a headlight bulb for our car.

Hey, at least my story is consistent.

I'm not even going to post the pathetic stats shown on the pedometer, because they are not accurate.

I did do two cycles of:

90 seconds jog
90 seconds walk
three minutes jog
three minutes walk

as best I could, estimating the time. There was one very long block that I jogged the entire length of, plus another shorter block as one of the three minute jogs, thinking that it might be about right. Just checked on yahoo maps, and it appears to be about 1/4 mile. The three minutes jog is supposed to be 400 yards, which is just under 1/4 mile, so that worked pretty well.