I was able to do week 4 day 2 last night. I think that the second day is always going to be much worse, though I was able to make it the whole way. I did find a nice route that was about 3 minutes longer then what I’m supposed to do which works out quite nice. Damn if it wasn’t cooler last night though and it took a bit longer to warm up.
Week 1 Day 3 down. Knee pain–below the knee-cap, on the inside. I’m wearing a patella band and am planning on waiting until Tuesday to run again. That’ll put me back on my originally-planned schedule of Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday.
Yay me, I managed to do this crazy thing three times this week, and am scarily enough looking forward to doing more next week.
Some progress today. In order to give my legs more rest between intervals I decided to only attempt to run/jog on the odd numbered ones. Got two full intervals in (1 and 3), about half of a third (5), but only a few seconds of the fourth (7). Still that’s a bit better than Wednesday, so again I’m counting it as a win.
I tried to pay closer attention to how I was feeling this time, trying to figure out exactly where the pain was. This time, much less pain in my shin, some fatigue pain in my calves, but the main pain, the pain that kept me from continuing running was pain across the top of my feet. Anyone know what the cause of that might be? Shoes tied too tight?
Other than that, it’s just the aches I would expect from using long-unused muscles (front of thighs a bit, residual ache in the calves, etc.). I just realized that I’m getting absolutely no stitches in my sides, which is a departure from norms for me. Yay!
That’s what I’m finding so far. Day 1 is okay but I end up a little sore. Day 2 is much more of a struggle. Day 3 is a breeze.
Does it happen early on or later? If later, maybe your feet are swelling after you’ve been out for a while. If early on, I guess you might be tying them a bit tight to start with.
If they stop hurting when you take the shoes off, my guess would be the shoes.
My feet started getting noticeably painful towards the middle of my second interval, ramped up quickly during my third, and was immediately there in my fourth. They pretty much stopped hurting shortly after slowing down to a walk. By the time I took my shoes off they had stopped hurting entirely (other than the background ache that I’m feeling all throughout my legs).
Maybe talking to someone at a running shoe store would be in order (if I can bear going in one this weekend).
My Day 2 of Week 2 was much harder than Day 1, which was my experience during Week 1 too, so I’m glad it’s not just me. I really wanted to quit halfway through but I didn’t!
This will be the first time I’ve had to skip 2 days between runs, since my mother is visiting, so I won’t be doing Day 3 until tomorrow. I didn’t stretch enough after Day 2, so my quad will have more time to rest and not feel like a knife is ripping through the muscle when I walk up steps.
I really don’t know how I’m going to run 3.1 miles 8 weeks from now.
Um, I’m at work so I don’t have it handy. I cut down my mp3 with Nero Wave editor, so it’s not like I have music to fit the times. I’ll happily forward you the list when I get home. This week we’re listening to the Offspring and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
That said, Wk2d3 is in the books. My calves were a bit sore, so it wasn’t fast. But hey, 6 in row, yay us!
Finished off week 2 day 3 today. Looking ahead to next week, I really don’t see how I’m going to run for 3 minutes straight. At the end of 90 seconds, I’m really working to get enough air. I don’t care what crazy people tell you, there just isn’t enough oxygen at 5280 ft. I’ll give it my best shot but I may have to repeat week 2. I’m waiting for that equilibrium point where I’m taking in as much oxygen as I’m using. Once I get to that point I’ll be fine, but for now it always seems I need more than I can get.
When I’m exercising, I think to myself… “gah, why is this still so hard?” But then I think back 2 months to when I really started working out. Mostly elliptical and recumbent bike, until some silly person suggested couch to 5K 
. The running I did today, plus 30 min on the bike afterwards, would have killed me then.
Just started this today. It was surprisingly easy for me, considering I loathe jogging - I’ve never seen the point of running from point A …back to point A. This, though, was a sufficiently easy start that for the first time I feel positive about continuing.
There isn’t enough oxygen at 600 feet, either. That’s still the big limiter for me - I’ve never been sore at all, really (except a bit in my calf this time) - I just can’t get enough air. I’m going to do an extra week 2 day on Sunday and then man up and try 3.
:eek: Week 3 is THREE minutes?? Oh boy.
In a row.
We can do it! (I’m just as scared as you.)
W1D3 complete.
I actually found this week really easy-- I hope that is a good sign!
I’m very excited for starting Week 2… I hope I can do it!
Welcome welcome! Just imagine you’re a cat and there is a giant laser pointer above you making a red dot that you simply have to catch. Hmm, maybe I should put my extremely fat cat Isaac on the treadmill. 
I prefer to think of myself as insufficiently sane.
I didn’t know that until just now either.
Oh my.
Maybe I just should have let it be a surprise during the podcast.
ShibbOleth, did you post the link you’re talking about? I can’t find it but I’m feeling extraordinarily clueless.
I’ve been running while watching the news, so less music would be good.
Week 2 is in the books and I am on the couch icing my knee. Argh! I wasn’t sore, I wasn’t fatigued, I wasn’t sucking for air, but my @#%$^ knee is killing me. Fat people weren’t meant to run. OK, some ice and some Advil and I will hit the pavement again on Monday for the start of week 3. Og help me.
So… shin splints. (If it’s just in one shin, is it still plural?) I’m a little confused as to whether I got 'em or not. I kind of had the impression that it was something that came on when you’re running, not days later. I ran on Thursday, and started to notice a pain on the outside of my left shin yesterday afternoon. I did wear high heels to dinner, but I hardly slept because it kept waking me up. It only bothers me when I do certain things with my foot - mostly when I lift my toes. It really sucks. I read a bit at runnersworld.com and mayoclinic.com, but neither were very helpful on the “why did I get this” thing - I have professionally fitted shoes, etc.