Two miles - evidence
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davidnAaaaagh. It turns out that the answer to the last line of my previous entry was "both". But look at this!
This really was the greatest jump in the course of the programme. The results jumped from the mid-200s on really good days to 315 calories, over a less shocking but still significant increase in distance - 2.42 miles this time, two miles of non-stop running with a buffer of about a fifth of a mile of warmup and cooldown walking.
But I did it - dividing my time mentally up over the course of about four songs, I managed to run the distance by continually lying to myself about when I would stop. After one mile I began to doubt my ability to keep going for the same distance again and decided that I would stop after fifteen minutes this time, then realizing that I could probably keep going to beat my current record of 17 minutes total running time in one session, then seeing that it wasn't all that long until the 20-minute mark, then deciding to stop when the total distance pushed over 2 miles and finally resolving to keep going until I'd done that last 0.2 miles to complete the requirement. But even though it was noticeably harder than any of the other sessions that came before it, it came as a great surprise that it was... possible, in the end.
I'm rather glad that the next couple of sessions are significantly easier, though - running for a maximum of eight minutes and then one mile in one stretch, as much as I'm sure I would have been flabbergasted to hear myself describe those as "easy" just two months ago. I haven't looked at what the final workout for the next week is, but if it's anything like the jump at the end of this one, it's probably "wrestle a minotaur".
This really was the greatest jump in the course of the programme. The results jumped from the mid-200s on really good days to 315 calories, over a less shocking but still significant increase in distance - 2.42 miles this time, two miles of non-stop running with a buffer of about a fifth of a mile of warmup and cooldown walking.
But I did it - dividing my time mentally up over the course of about four songs, I managed to run the distance by continually lying to myself about when I would stop. After one mile I began to doubt my ability to keep going for the same distance again and decided that I would stop after fifteen minutes this time, then realizing that I could probably keep going to beat my current record of 17 minutes total running time in one session, then seeing that it wasn't all that long until the 20-minute mark, then deciding to stop when the total distance pushed over 2 miles and finally resolving to keep going until I'd done that last 0.2 miles to complete the requirement. But even though it was noticeably harder than any of the other sessions that came before it, it came as a great surprise that it was... possible, in the end.
I'm rather glad that the next couple of sessions are significantly easier, though - running for a maximum of eight minutes and then one mile in one stretch, as much as I'm sure I would have been flabbergasted to hear myself describe those as "easy" just two months ago. I haven't looked at what the final workout for the next week is, but if it's anything like the jump at the end of this one, it's probably "wrestle a minotaur".
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Date: 2012-08-03 08:40 pm (UTC)Not as scary the mental image that I had when minotaur-wrestling was mentioned, but then again, for some reason the first thing that "minotaur" brings to mind for me is a Cyberdemon from the DooM series. :[
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