Scuba Shifts North and Debt.

scubaangel

Managed todays run - started the c25k program via an app on my phone, todays run was frustratingly slow for my liking - far too many walking stints, I think w1r2 is the same intervals then it steps up w1r3, but it wants you to do the runs alternate days so tomorrow if it's not too wet I'll go out mid afternoon and do my shortest route (1.3 miles) just to see how far in to it I can get before I think I need to walk - and the need to walk is psychological at the moment.

Hit target on swagbucks, if I can equal yesterdays overall earn I'll be cashing out in under a week which would be nice, instagc is playing hard to get for me today, not many videos around to bump up the earnings from the rewards radio but I'll persevere as every point gets me closer to the ideal target for cashing out.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Managed todays run - started the c25k program via an app on my phone, todays run was frustratingly slow for my liking - far too many walking stints,

Was this you making you walk, or the programme making you walk?

scubaangel wrote: »

I think w1r2 is the same intervals then it steps up w1r3, but it wants you to do the runs alternate days so tomorrow if it's not too wet I'll go out mid afternoon and do my shortest route (1.3 miles) just to see how far in to it I can get before I think I need to walk - and the need to walk is psychological at the moment.

Why?

scubaangel

The program is basically interval training building up to a 20 minute run, the first two sessions are 5min warm up walk, then 20 mins of alternating 60second runs and 90second walks with another 5 minute cool down walk at the end. Given I tend to warm up at home so walk out of the house and start running the 5min walk at the start was an irritation, by the time I reached the point on that route I usually decide to walk I was two walk/run cycles in.

As to why I always start to walk after about half a mile its because from home all my routes have a relatively steep slope (none of them are big enough to be hills) at or just before the half mile point. I know if I can get over the mental barrier of 'needing' to walk up the slopes I'll be fine to keep running (albeit slowly) on the flat sections after them.

The theory being at the moment that following the instructions in the app will mean I'm thinking about that not the upcoming sloping sections.

Considering the 30 minutes of the app measured program today took me on a route just over 2 miles long and I then ran the last 0.3 mile home from where it finished I know my legs will be able to cope (plus I did the warm up and cool down sections of a dance work out dvd just before I headed out, as I thought it wasn't going to stop raining long enough to get out for the run before dark).

So tomorrows run will be short and I guess more than anything as a marker for exactly what distance I run now and the average mile time - suprised at how 'down' I felt recording average mile times of 14 minutes when I'm used to closer to 10 min/mile.

scubaangel

Having not mentioned money much in todays posts I went to update my whatsthecost with my newly arrived credit card statement.

Payments due out this month are:
£45 - the MBNA R4L with balance transferred lump sum at 0%
£35 - to the Barclaycard - this one is due for payment over the weekend.
£27 - sofa finance.
Total £107

At the moment I have £50 in my current account and have transferred £45 from paypal meaning I'm in need of finding £12 before the last payment comes out to keep out of my overdraft and avoid charges.

I'm happy with that as I've a couple of mystery shopping payments due as well as some audit and product buy back work due for payment too.

scubaangel

I was a little confused when I logged in to my bank this evening to see that there was £90 in my current account, then I realised that I cashed out of tcb the other day so its the £37 odd from there, so that means of the £45 I transferred from paypal I've put £20 in to the account to cover Novembers payments with a small buffer, the rest has been put in to the savings account out of the way.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

The program is basically interval training building up to a 20 minute run, the first two sessions are 5min warm up walk, then 20 mins of alternating 60second runs and 90second walks with another 5 minute cool down walk at the end. Given I tend to warm up at home so walk out of the house and start running the 5min walk at the start was an irritation, by the time I reached the point on that route I usually decide to walk I was two walk/run cycles in.

So not following the programme then...

scubaangel wrote: »

As to why I always start to walk after about half a mile its because from home all my routes have a relatively steep slope (none of them are big enough to be hills) at or just before the half mile point.

So you live in a mile wide hole? :rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

I know if I can get over the mental barrier of 'needing' to walk up the slopes I'll be fine to keep running (albeit slowly) on the flat sections after them.

Well if you're not keeping to the programme, why don't you take a 10 minute walk to the bottom of the hill, and start your run from there, up the slope?

scubaangel wrote: »

The theory being at the moment that following the instructions in the app will mean I'm thinking about that not the upcoming sloping sections.

Are you following the instructions?

scubaangel wrote: »

Considering the 30 minutes of the app measured program today took me on a route just over 2 miles long and I then ran the last 0.3 mile home from where it finished I know my legs will be able to cope (plus I did the warm up and cool down sections of a dance work out dvd just before I headed out, as I thought it wasn't going to stop raining long enough to get out for the run before dark).

Given where you live - not running in the rain is going to cramp you somewhat...

scubaangel wrote: »

So tomorrows run will be short and I guess more than anything as a marker for exactly what distance I run now and the average mile time - suprised at how 'down' I felt recording average mile times of 14 minutes when I'm used to closer to 10 min/mile.

Fourteen minutes per mile is good. My speed would be that of walking speed - because that's what I'd do... :rotfl:

scubaangel wrote: »

I was a little confused when I logged in to my bank this evening to see that there was £90 in my current account, then I realised that I cashed out of tcb the other day so its the £37 odd from there, so that means of the £45 I transferred from paypal I've put £20 in to the account to cover Novembers payments with a small buffer, the rest has been put in to the savings account out of the way.

Well that saves you trying to find £19.

scubaangel

I am following the program, or I was which is how I know it annoyed me, and will do again tomorrow when I go out and do r2.

It feels like a mile wide hole, but actually the route runs along a river valley, the half mile point up river is where the old bleach works were so you go to on to the path beside the old works dyke, then half a mile further on get stuck with the hill up the side of the reservior dam, the other way its following the river then the slope out of the river cutting up on to the main road to go around the house built on the river bank.

The other option is to go straight up hill on to the moors.

Well yes, but there's no point choosing to be cold wet and miserable when I don't need to - at some point I will have to choose to run in the rain and generally I rather enjoy it once I get outdoors but would prefer for that to happen after the rest of the leaves have fallen as it'll make the route lighter (the challenge of living in a wooded river valley).

My Dad and I walk at roughly 4mph....which would be 15 min/mile so the running pace while following the app is not impressing me at all!

Yup so the money is back in the savings account I nearly emptied to pay off my overdraft.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

I am following the program, or I was which is how I know it annoyed me, and will do again tomorrow when I go out and do r2.

Perhaps that's how it motivates you - by annoying you...

scubaangel wrote: »

at some point I will have to choose to run in the rain

But if you have to - surely it stops being a choice?

scubaangel wrote: »

and generally I rather enjoy it once I get outdoors but would prefer for that to happen after the rest of the leaves have fallen as it'll make the route lighter (the challenge of living in a wooded river valley).

It'll also make it squidgy underfoot.

scubaangel wrote: »

My Dad and I walk at roughly 4mph....

:shocked:

I walk about 2mph. Maybe stretch to 2.5 mph if I'm in a tearing hurry.

scubaangel wrote: »

which would be 15 min/mile so the running pace while following the app is not impressing me at all!

It's to get you gradually into it. A minute saved is a minute earned...or something like that. It's the fitness, not the time.

After all, if you were really bothered about speed - drive.

scubaangel wrote: »

Yup so the money is back in the savings account I nearly emptied to pay off my overdraft.

:T A triumph for the month.

Any jobs on the horizon?

scubaangel

The choice is between running and getting snuggled up on my sofa with blankets and cushions. Not running in the rain or not.

By the time most of the leaves have dropped they tend to wash off the paths fairly quickly, and the footpath is part of the local councils wheelchair accessible routes so is a pretty good graveled surface (they chuck loose gravel down in summer by now its pretty well trodden in so its a firm level path until spring).

When I was in the TA I surprised the PTI's by being at the front of the group on tabs, and the back on the runs. :rotfl:

Nope no sign of work just yet, am away down south next week to see the girls so might do some scouting out of jobs back down south while I'm there. I miss the independence I had, if not the hours and extortionate rent. But the more time I'm spending in my home town the more run down and unwelcoming it feels as a long term place to stay in.

scubaangel

Another day of failing to con employers in to thinking I'm ace - had three rejection emails and applied for 4 other temp jobs, half way through an application for a permanent job.

Had another delivery to the house today, I now have a bottle of Morgans Spiced Rum, so am waiting for the Cannonball Drinking Vessel which was the other part of the prize.

Also arranged for a friend to book me a hotel room in London for the first weekend in December for an annual Christmas meet up, need to check on the cost of that and set to work covering the cost of it.

Also thinking about my plans for Rememberance weekend, as I'll be down south the previous week I'm considering asking my sister if I can stay with her on the saturday night and then attend the Cenotaph on the Sunday morning with friends, I never could when I lived down south as I worked Sunday afternoons and couldn't get back in time for my shift.