Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Run 18

Today's run didn't go as expected. I have chronic hives which started two years ago and the last year I could keep it down with medication. I also have asthma but since I started running I thought that went pretty well and didn't suffer from any asthma attack. But the last week I started to get a rash (Cholinergic urticaria) during my runs. And today I found out that I also get wheezy. So I had to stop my run and walk home. I decided to take my asthma medication again and do a redo on the runs of week 6 with medication and see if it gets better. If not I will go to see my doctor next week and see what we can do. For now I hope using my asthma medication will work.

Week 6 run 16 and 17

I'm already in my sixth week of training for a 5k. Three similar runs of 32 minutes, 24 min. running and 8 minutes of walking. Altering 5-2-7-2-7-2-5-2. So up from max. 5 minutes to max. 7 minutes.

Run 16:

June 26th. Today was my first run where I was able to run 7 minutes at a time. I couldn't even do that during physical education classes years back. This was also my first run in my new running shoes. I bought myself a pair of Mizuno wave inspire 10's and they feel great. The shoes I ran in were some cheap pair of shoes with no support and suspension. So I like my first pair of "real" running shoes. As you can see in the picture I used a different running app. My other app started acting up and as I told you in the review it wouldn't save my runs. The runs get a lot easier to remember so I decided to try the Nike+ running app to log my runs and use my watch to do the intervals. I really liked it this time and will use it again next time.

Run 17:

June 28th. Well today wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. First of all, I forgot my water bottle. As it was 21° C (70°F) outside. So I couldn't do the full training as I wanted. But I improved my min/km time to 8:10/km. So not a bad run, but I just couldn't continue. To top it off, when I came home I found out I lost my drivers license during my run, I hopped on my bike and went back to search for it, but I couldn't find it. Yesterday (June 29th) someone told me that people brought a drivers license to the local police station on Sunday. So today I went and got it back. I am so thankful for the people who took it to the police station right away!


Friday, June 26, 2015

Week 5

This week I started the fifth week in the program. This week has three similar runs with 2x4 minutes and 2x5 minutes running altered with 3 minutes walking. So 4-3-5-3-5-3-4-3. In this week the runs contained 18 min. running and 12 min. walking.

During this week I noticed I started to run a bit faster than before and am running more meters in a run.

Run 13:

The first run this week wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. In my mind 5 minutes of running was very long and hard but it wasn't. I had to force myself to do the three minutes of walking after the first 5 minutes run. Because if I continued to run I wouldn't be able to do the second 5 minutes.









Run 14:

The second run was very smooth. I was very excited about the distance I ran when I saw the app. But when I saw the map in the app I knew something wasn't what it supposed to be. My actual distance was 3,57 km and 7,14 km/u. Still better than run 13.










Run 15:

My last run this week didn't save in the running app I have. So from now I will be using an extra app to save my runs. I didn't remember my distance and speed. Sorry.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

My running app

Hello, today a new training...

I run three times a week with my running app "Hardlopen met Evy" It's an app from Belgium also available in the Netherlands. The app is free to download and you can try every first training from every available program. I purchased the program "Je eerste 5 km 10 wkn" which is your first 5k in 10 weeks. The program costs 300 points and that is €3,99. I don't think that is expensive for a running programm.

Scheme for the 5k program

The program last for 10 weeks and the first 9 weeks the 3 runs are the same. The last week holds 3 different runs. During your runs you alter running and walking.

Week 1: Three runs of 20 minutes. Max. 2 minutes at a time, 4 times. (10 min. running - 10 min. walking)
Week 2: Three runs of 24 minutes. Max. 3 minutes at a time, 2 times (12 min. running - 12 min. walking)
Week 3: Three runs of 27 minutes. Max. 4 minutes at a time, 1 time (14 min. running - 13 min. walking)
Week 4: Three runs of 29 minutes. Max. 4 minutes at a time, 2 times (17 min. running - 12 min. walking)
Week 5: Three runs of 30 minutes. Max. 5 minutes at a time, 2 times (18 min. running - 12 min. walking)
Week 6: Three runs of 32 minutes. Max. 7 minutes at a time, 2 times (24 min. running - 8 min. walking)
Week 7: Three runs of 33 minutes. Max. 10 minutes at a time, 1 time (26 min. running - 7 min. walking)
Week 8: Three runs of 35 minutes. Max. 11 minutes at a time, 2 times (30 min. running - 5 min. walking)
Week 9: Three runs of 39 minutes. Max. 13 minuten at a time, 2 times (34 min. running - 5 min. walking)
Week 10: 
Training 1; 40 minutes. Max. 15 minutes at a time, 2 rimes (35 min. running - 5 min. walking)
Training 2; 30 minutes running.
Training 3; 32 minutes running.

My experience with the program

At the time of wrinting I'm in the fifth week of the program and feel like my speed is going up this week. I like that the program is 10 weeks, last time I started running I had a six week program and couldn't keep up with it. Now I feel I can actually do this and will be able to run a 5k in a few weeks.

My experience with the app

What I like about the app is that you can set if you want to hear an update every 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 minutes and if you want to hear random encouragements or not. If you complete a run you get 4 points. So if you finish a program you already have about 120 points to buy another program. To start a run you have to have a GPS signal, unfortunately sometimes it will happen that you have a signal during your run and when you want to save your run it can't because it has no signal. Now I have two runs unchecked because of this. According to the people from the app, they know this happens and hope they can fix it in the next update. They said it helps to reinstall the app. Your runs are saves and will appear again when you log in. 


Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Cheap Running belt


Last week I bought a running belt at the Action in my area. The running belt cost me less than 2 euros and I had to try it for that price. When the belt is empty it is very small and doesn't take up many space. But in the large pocket fits a bottle of water and in the small pocket fits a smartphone.
During my first run with this belt I took a bottle of water to go and while the bottle (0,5 l) didn't feel weird, it was bumping up and down during my run. Second thing is that even without the bottle the belt had the tendency to move up to my waist. If you want to wear the belt around your waist that is fine but I like to have the belt in my hip area so I don't like that.

Pros:                                                
+ cheap
+ can fit a lot of stuff
+ nice fabric
+ it's narrow
+ adjustable size

Cons:
 - moves up while you run
 - 0,5 l bottle bumps up and down

I think this running belt is OK to keep a key, identification and a phone, but if you want to bring a bottle of water I wouldn't recommend this belt,



Monday, June 15, 2015

How it started.

Hi everybody,

Welcome to my blog!

A few months ago (January) I got a membership at the gym. I want to get fit and lose some weight. At the gym I did cardio workouts and joined Pilates classes. A couple of years ago I started running, but I just couldn't keep up with it at the time. But at the gym I actually enjoyed running for a workout and installed a running app on my phone and started practicing for a 5k on the treadmill. It went very well and I started running outside and now I'm kind of addicted to running!

I do a 10 week program to run a 5k. I start with week 5 this week and am able to run for 5 minutes. Something I thought impossible a few weeks ago, 2 minutes was hard. Every time I'm looking forward to my next run and I will do a running event in my area in October. It's called the "Zeemijlenloop" or Sea miles run. And I will run 3 sea miles (5,56 km) 

Go run!