Running in sub freezing weather is, as the phrase at Revolution Church goes, a "Whole 'Nuther Level" (WNL) so it was little surprise finding frozen sweat in my hair Saturday morning after I completed the 2.5 miles of Couch to 5K week2 plus walking another 0.5 miles for an even 3 miles. I was wearing long sleeve under armor, long sleeve t-shirt, short sleeve under armor, sweatshirt, lined warm-up pants, gloves, and a 'boggin for my head. I took off the sweathshirt during the 2nd mile to stay cooler. When we arrived at park, temp was 14F then when we left the temp had risen to 24F.
It worked out rather well to have 4 week 2 workouts (Sunday Tuesday Thursday and Saturday) during the week to help prepare for week 3 even though we have missed some days off. (Well, we only walked the Saturday between last Week 1 repeat run and 1st week 2 run so that should not have been too bad. We felt it was important to join up with the revolution Runners. Some of them are insane.)
Week3:
5 min warm-up
90 sec run then 90 sec walk
3 min run then 3 min walk
90 sec run then 90 sec walk
3 min run then 5 min cool-down.
I think I might die this week.
I am still looking for a nice stretching type podcast we can listen to before and after the C25K portion. found a couple, but not quite what I need. These were video podcasts and just need descriptive audio tracks. Still looking. What I'd like to do is to make a play list with a 5 or so minutes of stretching followed by the couch to 5k running podcast or later podrunner intervals or podrunner podcast then another or a repeat of the stretching podcast. That would allow focus on thinking about life, and just 'doing' the instructions rather than having to focus on the exercise so much that is all we are able to think about.
