Daily Check In Thread
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Ended up taking a couple of extra rest days (read: being a slacker) and started week 5 tonight. It wasn't too bad, but I think I need to go over to the flat trail instead of my neighborhood. Hills are painful!
yeh bugger doing hills. my track is slightly up hill for the 1st half and obviously slightly downhill on the way back. which is perfect because the down hill cancels out the exhaustedness of the first half.0 -
I got a cold so yesterday I had to skip c25k and that felt awful. I still got to walk 5 km at 7 km/hr (4.5mph). Reckon I can walk again tonight to retain some fitness or do I HAVE to have two days apart even when walking?0
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Week 6 has been the weirdest C25k week so far. Let me tell you a tale...
My development makes a giant horse-shoe shape, with a Cul-de-sac at each end. At the end of our street there is a cul-de-sac where an old woman who is/was very sick. You rarely ever saw her and if you did you would get the impression that a light breeze would blow her away. She was all skin and bones.
Starting late in the summer no one saw her outside anymore and her dog stopped barking at us on our walks. The house was always dark, the papers started to pile up and the grass got really long. One day landscaping company came and cleaned up the lot, but still... no sign of anyone in the house. We assumed the worst. About a month ago, one of the kids in the neighborhood reported seeing an ambulance at her house with someone being wheeled out.
Everyone thought she might have died, but the week before last my neighbor said that he saw her out at night walking with a walker, and a few days later I was sure that I saw her walking down at her end of the street without the need of any aide. I assumed she had to be hospitalized but was out and feeling better. Still there are no lights and no activity at her house.
Friday night I was on my run and it was just a creepy night. We had been talking about her earlier that evening and I decided I wasn't going to run down to her end of the development because I had the heebeegeebees.
I was on a walking interval when a neighbor from the other side of the development (who I do not speak to ever) was backing out of his driveway. He let me walk by and I got ahead of him a bit down the road when he pulled his car up next to me and he rolled down the window...
He looked confused and asked, "Didn't you just have someone with you?"
I sort of snapped back at him, "What the heck did you just say?
Again looking confused he said, "I swear you were walking with a woman when you walked by my house, and as I pulled up behind you she was there, but when I pulled up next to you she was gone. Weird"
My heart literally sunk, "Dude, I'm alone..
He shrugged and started to drive off, and I just ran. I ran the last running interval and straight into my house completely spooked out.
Last night, I did not want to run outside. Our treadmill has been skipping and it's almost dangerous to run on it, but I tried anyways. Beyond the fact that I am now convinced the possibly dead lady down the street is following me around the development... it was pretty cold. I fired up the treadmill but once it got over 4mph it started to stick and skip. I thought I might break my neck so I stopped and cursed out the machine for a while.
I was furious. I didn't want to miss this day but didn't want "possibly dead creepy lady" bugging me either. I put on some warmer clothes and told myself "***k it dude, it can't hurt you". On my warm up I decided to head down towards her house. It's totally dark. To light from a television flicker, nothing. I made the turn and started my 10 minute running interval.
The run felt good. I was warming up from the cold and the air felt easy to breath. My pace was pretty good and I wasn't tiring quickly. Since my development makes that horse-shoe I told you about, I inevitably ended up running back to her end of the street. About 200 yards away I notice that the light is on in the upstairs hallway and as I get close I notice she is standing in the hallway LOOKING RIGHT AT ME out of the from picture window. I mean she was just standing there staring at me as I ran towards her house.
I just stopped. She didn't move either. She just stood there... so I just did an about-face and I booked it in the other direction. I was running so fast that I was completely out of breath at the end of the interval. I decided not to go back to her end of the street but I wanted to finish this run. It's important to me to do this.
I had a 3 minute walking interval that I started when I got around the bend. I was catching my breath and when I got to the SAME SPOT where my neighbor stopped me on Friday and my phone just shut off. I'm totally freaked out at this point.
I wanted to just run home. I looked around a bit and there was no one around. So I held the power button down on the phone and started jogging again. I was pretty tired already but I almost didn't care. When the phone came back on I just looked at the time and ran that remainder of that 10 minute interval. I have no idea what my pace was but I think it probably was one of my better times. I can see that woman's house from my driveway, and when I arrived home I noticed that the lights were all off again...
w.t.f.
Needless to say that tomorrow, when I do W6D3, I'm getting up in the morning to do that run. In fact I'll be getting up in the morning to run from now on.0 -
So old dead ladies like to sleep in? I guess that's not surprising - I'd sleep in if I was an old dead lady.
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That story is so creepy! I'd run in the morning too!0
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BEST RUN UPDATE EVER!!!!Week 6 has been the weirdest C25k week so far. Let me tell you a tale...
My development makes a giant horse-shoe shape, with a Cul-de-sac at each end. At the end of our street there is a cul-de-sac where an old woman who is/was very sick. You rarely ever saw her and if you did you would get the impression that a light breeze would blow her away. She was all skin and bones.
Starting late in the summer no one saw her outside anymore and her dog stopped barking at us on our walks. The house was always dark, the papers started to pile up and the grass got really long. One day landscaping company came and cleaned up the lot, but still... no sign of anyone in the house. We assumed the worst. About a month ago, one of the kids in the neighborhood reported seeing an ambulance at her house with someone being wheeled out.
Everyone thought she might have died, but the week before last my neighbor said that he saw her out at night walking with a walker, and a few days later I was sure that I saw her walking down at her end of the street without the need of any aide. I assumed she had to be hospitalized but was out and feeling better. Still there are no lights and no activity at her house.
Friday night I was on my run and it was just a creepy night. We had been talking about her earlier that evening and I decided I wasn't going to run down to her end of the development because I had the heebeegeebees.
I was on a walking interval when a neighbor from the other side of the development (who I do not speak to ever) was backing out of his driveway. He let me walk by and I got ahead of him a bit down the road when he pulled his car up next to me and he rolled down the window...
He looked confused and asked, "Didn't you just have someone with you?"
I sort of snapped back at him, "What the heck did you just say?
Again looking confused he said, "I swear you were walking with a woman when you walked by my house, and as I pulled up behind you she was there, but when I pulled up next to you she was gone. Weird"
My heart literally sunk, "Dude, I'm alone..
He shrugged and started to drive off, and I just ran. I ran the last running interval and straight into my house completely spooked out.
Last night, I did not want to run outside. Our treadmill has been skipping and it's almost dangerous to run on it, but I tried anyways. Beyond the fact that I am now convinced the possibly dead lady down the street is following me around the development... it was pretty cold. I fired up the treadmill but once it got over 4mph it started to stick and skip. I thought I might break my neck so I stopped and cursed out the machine for a while.
I was furious. I didn't want to miss this day but didn't want "possibly dead creepy lady" bugging me either. I put on some warmer clothes and told myself "***k it dude, it can't hurt you". On my warm up I decided to head down towards her house. It's totally dark. To light from a television flicker, nothing. I made the turn and started my 10 minute running interval.
The run felt good. I was warming up from the cold and the air felt easy to breath. My pace was pretty good and I wasn't tiring quickly. Since my development makes that horse-shoe I told you about, I inevitably ended up running back to her end of the street. About 200 yards away I notice that the light is on in the upstairs hallway and as I get close I notice she is standing in the hallway LOOKING RIGHT AT ME out of the from picture window. I mean she was just standing there staring at me as I ran towards her house.
I just stopped. She didn't move either. She just stood there... so I just did an about-face and I booked it in the other direction. I was running so fast that I was completely out of breath at the end of the interval. I decided not to go back to her end of the street but I wanted to finish this run. It's important to me to do this.
I had a 3 minute walking interval that I started when I got around the bend. I was catching my breath and when I got to the SAME SPOT where my neighbor stopped me on Friday and my phone just shut off. I'm totally freaked out at this point.
I wanted to just run home. I looked around a bit and there was no one around. So I held the power button down on the phone and started jogging again. I was pretty tired already but I almost didn't care. When the phone came back on I just looked at the time and ran that remainder of that 10 minute interval. I have no idea what my pace was but I think it probably was one of my better times. I can see that woman's house from my driveway, and when I arrived home I noticed that the lights were all off again...
w.t.f.
Needless to say that tomorrow, when I do W6D3, I'm getting up in the morning to do that run. In fact I'll be getting up in the morning to run from now on.0 -
Completed Week 1 Day 1 yesterday. I survived! (so did the dog)0
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My dog's been in it with me the whole way too! Of course I run so slow she just kind of walks and looks at me funny.0
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My dog's been in it with me the whole way too! Of course I run so slow she just kind of walks and looks at me funny.
My jog is her trot...she likes it better when I jog because its more of the pace she wants to go! and my jog is more like turtle jogging! it isn't very fast at all which is good for her since she is getting older.0 -
has there been confirmation that she actually died?0
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Did the old lady know you were starting? Maybe she was a runner too and just wants to make sure you are safe on the roads. I think that would make me want to run even more in that area. That is one cool story!
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i don't and have never believed in ghosts, but i LOVE this story. So there is an old dead lady jogging along with you, that's cool. lol. But i think someone is just f*cking with you. idk, keep us updated though.
And on a personal c25k update, i just finished w1d2! i'm a newbie, but today was MUCH better than day 1. I actually was able to keep up with all 8 intervals. Day 1, i couldn't. looking forward to w1d3, and possibly signing up for a 5k that is coming up (dec. 7). even though I'd only be finishing up w5, id still like to give it a try. gonna think about it for a few days. happy running all.0 -
has there been confirmation that she actually died?
No.
I decided that I didn't care and took my walk last night. Still no lights or activity at the house.
My wife just made a bunch of little loafs of pumkin bread, so I'm thinking of taking some to her house on Saturday. I figure is she is alive, it will be a nice thing to do and if she isn't perhaps my offering will appease her.
xD
Anywhoo... W6D3 tonight and I'm nerbus again about the challenge. I know I can do it, it's just going to be hard.0 -
Finished Week 6, Day 2 last night but my pace was slower and I was kind of bummed out. I know it's because I just started a boot camp on Monday and I'm still extremely sore from that, so I need to not be down on myself. BUT STILL. Anyway, I got through it relatively easy and the run actually did help ease my soreness so that's good. That was the last interval run on my app so I kind of feel like a kid losing her training wheels. All running from here on out. I've chosen my 5K and it will be on December 7th!0
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W6D3 done tonight.
No paranormal activity to report.0 -
So, I should have started Week 3 yesterday. But, I came down with a nasty sinus infection so that got put off. I'm hoping that I'll be ok to start up again tomorrow but in the even that I have to wait for the weekend or later, would you repeat another day of Week 2 or go into Week 3 as planned?0
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So, I should have started Week 3 yesterday. But, I came down with a nasty sinus infection so that got put off. I'm hoping that I'll be ok to start up again tomorrow but in the even that I have to wait for the weekend or later, would you repeat another day of Week 2 or go into Week 3 as planned?
I've got a sinus infection too. I didn't stop exercising... I just replaced c25k with long power walks. I just can't breath well enough to run.
So I'll do this until I'm better and repeat the last week. There is no rush
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I am ready to start week 3, however upon completion of week 2 I got sick so decided to redo week 2 to make sure week 3 wouldn't kill me lol I'm kind of afraid to start as I have never run that much before....0
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I finished up Week 5 today. It's just in time for my son's school running group's next 5K on Saturday too. I'm feeling really happy about it and figuring to use the Week 6, Day 1 schedule to run the whole thing. This will be my first 5K since starting the C25K program but its our second run of this school year and the 7th run we'll be doing together since he started running at his school last year.0
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Did week 5 day 2 today. I went biking yesterday so my legs were tired even before I started, but I made it! The second 8 min interval was actually a lot easier than the first - I guess it's a matter of getting good and warmed up.
I'm a little scared of the 20 minutes I'm supposed to do on Saturday but I've managed to make it through all of the workouts so far, so I guess I just have to trust the process.0 -
i also did w5d2 last night. wasnt after biking but it was my kids birthday so had been doing a bit of running around due to that. the biggest thing for me tho was that it was raining. in the past i would have talked myself out of going because of that but this time i got out there and low and behold it wasnt that bad.
pace wasnt as high as the 3min and 5min intervals of the past, but i put that too a long day plus a big dinner and birthday cake sitting in the guts, as well as the rain.
i might re-evaluate my goals to 7min/km for the 20min run tho. i dont think i could hold 6:40/km for 20 minutes at this stage.0 -
Week 1 in the books!!! I feel great, looking forward to week 2 and the challenge that comes along with.0
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Finished Week 6 last night! Two more weeks? I can't even believe I'm this close to done.0
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W7D1 done tonight.
No paranormal activity to report.0 -
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Done with week 5. I was thisclose to waiting until tomorrow because I was really tired from a bike ride and a hike yesterday, but I managed to power through 20 straight minutes (at a blazing 4.5 miles per hour!) and I'm really glad I got up and got it done. I truly cannot believe I just did that.
Two weeks until my first 5k race in 15 years. I think I might actually be able to do it!0 -
W1D1 down, many weeks to go. I enjoyed it though.0
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W1D1 down, many weeks to go. I enjoyed it though.
Fantastic! Especially the enjoying it part:flowerforyou:0 -
Done with week 5. I was thisclose to waiting until tomorrow because I was really tired from a bike ride and a hike yesterday, but I managed to power through 20 straight minutes (at a blazing 4.5 miles per hour!) and I'm really glad I got up and got it done. I truly cannot believe I just did that.
Two weeks until my first 5k race in 15 years. I think I might actually be able to do it!
Some of the best runs are those where you really don't feel like it and think of canceling but then go ahead and do it anyway:)0 -
Today was W1, D2 & I'm battling a sinus infection. I was supposed to do a 5k this a.m. but skipped, due to feeling crummy. Still, I went to the gym & started D2. After my 2nd interval, I was exhausted & felt a pinch in my knee. I jumped off the treadmill & was about to head home when I realized that if I quit, it'd be like every other thing in my life. So, I switched to a different treadmill, slowed down the pace & just finished. It was ugly, painful and slow. But I finished. That's gotta count for something.0
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