I have been logging my activity on Fitbit & Runkeeper but starting them at the beginning of the C25K app! 😌 therefore my distance such as this morning 4.54k W9R2 included the warm up walk & warm down.
What does everyone else do?
I feel disappointed now knowing I’m not running as far as I first thought, although I’m happy running 30 mins mind regardless of the distance.
Any thoughts or advice?
Thank you
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Clairabell
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I do the same thing I include the walks. Think I’ll do that until I finish the programme. Then I might just time a run. My distance is only 3.5 k including the walks but hey it doesn’t matter. Both distance and time will come over he next moths I’m sure.
I tried tracking my distance today for the first time on w6/r2, I was curious how far I am actually going, also although I know speed doesn’t matter I was wondering if my eventual 5k will take many hours!! I did the same as you, I included the walking as in my view is it’s all exercise!! I think I’ll do as Dellgirl82 and when I can run the 30 minutes will track run only.
I’ve been doing it including the walks too. Just completed c25k and am totally still kinda in denial that 30 mins running is something I can even do.
Haven’t reached 5K running alone but with the progress I have seen in myself over the programme I feel sure I will over the next few weeks 😋
I’ve just completed last night and did 5.22K including the walks. So I’ll be trying to track just the run part on my next run to see how far I can run. I suspect it will be about 4.5K ish.
There's no right or wrong. I track only the running parts as my aim is to jog 5k (unlikely within the programme but when consolidating!) so including the warm up and cool down wouldnt make sense. I think whatever you decide if you're looking at stats as long as you're comparing like for like then you do you. No matter what you're getting out there
There’s no cheating as this isn’t competitive... and even if you were in an event run, they allow walking. Your data and the stats within it are all yours... it’s a personal choice what you record. That said, comparison of how far you’ve come in a few more months is easier to make if you start your tracker as you start running. I’m not really bothered how far I can run in 30 minutes or what my 5k PB is... but I did get a real sense of achievement when I started looking back and could see how my conversational pace had been getting gradually faster over the months. I’ll never be super quick, but I will be significantly quicker than I was at graduation.
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