Couch 2 5k logging question!

sarahbrown1015

Today was day one of couch 2 5k. There is no walk/jog option on MFP and I do not have a HRM. How would you suggest I log this? 5.0 mph walk? 4.5? I do not want to over estimate. Thanks in advance!

AllonsYtotheTardis

If I didn't have a HRM, I would log C25K as a brisk walk, because I've timed myself - I'm not jogging any faster than I walk at this point.

sarahbrown1015

so 4.0 mph? my jog is a little (and i mean tiny bit) faster than my walk. should i split the time between 4.0 and 4.5?

anaodep

I found this forum on this other site and this person made an excel spreadsheet for calculating the number of calories burned- don't know if it's accurate or not-

http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/team_messageboard_thread.asp?board=0x788x27553109x1xfirst

gwild0r

I used the speed calculator
http://www.machinehead-software.co.uk/bike/speed_distance_time_calc.html

figured out my average speed.. and then logged it as such..

MichaelYoung1976

I do C25K as well. For days 1-3, I logged 6.75 minutes jogging (7.5 mph for me) and walking (3.5 mph) for 21 minutes.

sarahbrown1015

thanks!

Shua89

When I did it last year I figured out how many minutes that I walked and logged those as walking, then I figured out how many minutes that I ran and logged those as jogging. I thought that was way more accurate for me than trying log it all as one.

amohon

I have a few friends that are doing this and I would like to know how to get started.

rapat

A little late to this, but the way I've been doing it is I just added a new cardio exercise called 'Couch To 5k' under my exercises with the defaults being 30 min, 400 calories. If I'm wearing a HR monitor, then I just override the calories to what I burned.

Likewise for other activity.