The dog ate my homework

This week I did the unthinkable. Well, for me anyway. I slept through my alarm and missed a run!

I'm now wondering if it was psychological as I've been feeling a few twinges and was starting to worry about my calf getting injured again. It just so happened to be the big one, 46 minutes that is just about 5 miles. What a one to miss!

Here is what I've done so far since I downloaded the app and set up an account.

And this is what I did today.

From C25K to miCoach

So I've finished getting to 5k but I'm still overweight and keen to build up my mileage, so what next?

I checked out the 10k plans but they didn't appeal. I wanted to get to 4 days running instead of 3 so I was looking around a lot.

Given that I've injured muself a bit, I was very curious about the 10% rule and overtraining. So I read this, and it made some sense to me.

Then I found the miCoach app for android. I checked it out and it looked good so I downloaded it.

You have to log in to the website and create a plan for it to work properly, so that's what I did. I chose the Weight Loss plan at level 5 (comfortable with 30 minute workouts). Then I did the Assessment Workout where your pace is logged at various levels, ending with a 1 minute sprint!

This sets up the zones you run in and try to stick to. Then you can schedule the runs on any day and the widget shows you what workout you have to do.

Evolution of the plan

So the blogging stopped but the running didn't.

Well, it did, but only because of injury.

I injured my calf again and was out of action for a couple of weeks. After some stretching and gentle exercise, I was ok to go but couldn't pick up where I left off, so I went back a couple of weeks.

I finally finished it in the first week of May.

Job done . . .