Progress

I am filling up my Google Calendar with all the fitness classes near both work and home, so I can just duck into whichever class is most convenient for me at that time of day and week. Pretty nifty, huh? I've also set out three to four running days throughout the week - the whole aim of this exercise is to have some sort of a schedule that is still flexible enough to accommodate for this thing called life.

So far I've got:
Monday - running
Tuesday - Ashtanga yoga
Wednesday - running or Zumba
Thursday - running or something else (looking into dance classes)
Friday - running or Zumba
Saturday - running or bike ride
Sunday - rest!

There are some fitness classes at the local pool/gym that I'm keen to try out to see if they're any good. Things like Aerodance and Body Blast.

Also, I mapped my walk from Melbourne Central station to work and found that it was 1.3km which is awesome 'cuz I've been doing that almost everyday for the last few months now :)

Here are workouts from the last two days (oh, and turns out I was actually doing Week 6, Day 1 (W6D1) of the program instead of Week 5! D'OH):

On Friday I repeated W6D1 of the Couch to 5k program. It was easier than Wednesday but was still quite an effort. Think I'll keep at this until I get the hang of it.

Today I did a distance trial i.e. tried to run for at least 3km without stopping, because the aim of Week 6 in the C25k program (or so it seemed to me) was to be able to run 3.6km with no walking or stops.

I managed 2.4km. Perhaps I was too ambitious to start, albeit unintentionally, in Week 6?

Well whatever it is, I gotta keep moving forward. Think if I keep at Week 6 for a little bit then I could build my endurance and speed up to a decent level. Already today I felt like my pace was better and I felt stronger during my run. And I ran an extra 400m before the gotta-stop-or-die-now feeling hit :)

Think next week I'll do some sprints, and the following week I'll do another distance trial.

Gotta keep moving! Wish me luck, interwebs!