Monday night this week I completed Week 7, day 3 of Couch-to-5k (running for 25mins straight), and last night I did day 1 of week 8. For week 8 of the C25k program I'll be running for 28 minutes with a 5-minute warm-up and cool-down - my distance in total for last night's run was 5.86k, which is amazing to me.
Only a couple of months ago I was out of breath if I ran for more than a couple of minutes, and here I am running for nearly a half-hour straight without much trouble. Running has become a pleasant activity for me rather than an exhausting one!
A colleague of mine mentioned something called the Cooper Fitness Test, which involves running for 12 minutes straight and measuring the distance. I think I might give this "test" a shot after completing C25k and see how I do. I'm using Runkeeper to track my runs now, which provides a very accurate measurement of distance, so it'll be pretty easy to use the Cooper test as a gauge of my overall fitness level over time.
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