Do the Couch-to-5k running plan at half speed

After a holiday in France and a brief visit to Ireland, I’m back on the horse. Not that I’ve fallen off it, I’ve gotten off it, gently, just to get back on it today.
The run was fine, felt good, and though I didn’t cover much ground, I did the times and ran comfortably. I was proudly wearing my super yellow safety vest, which I had originally bought to have in the car in France (it’s the law!), but now that we are here, I might as well wear it at dusk and not get run over by a bike. Yay, me!

I’m doing great following the routine and running through Vondelpark like a gazelle. Not. Today, a girl in front of me was doing a brisk walk right ahead of me. She never broke into a proper run. I still couldn’t catch up with her… But I’m OK and at least I am having fun.
The 3-minute runs are good and fI can focus on my form and feel like I am getting more into the whole sporty thing. Let’s see how we can keep this up during our holidays, though…

Still running. I love it once I’m out there, but getting ready to leave the house is the hard part. I am using the Ullrey podcast and even I normally despise housemusic, I think for running, it’s OK. A bit boring, maybe. But the dude has a nice voice, so I’ll go on with this podcast.
Running is fun now and my personal motivational character is helping me to focus when I’m running out of breath or slow down. She kicks ass and so will I, eventually.

I strangely did not feel any strain doing this run. At all. I enjoyed it through and through, running around 9:30 p.m., when the day’s heat had finally subsided and a great many people were having barbeques in the park. Apart from the smoke, I was having the best time.

This one went even better than the first. I liked being by myself and do my thing after a long day in the office and picking up the baby afterwards.
I also have a “secret” motivation. It’s the body image of a fictional character and I am using her in my head to make me run with more control and ‘tude. If it works in the longrun (haha), I’ll let you know who it is. For now, she is “mine”.

‘nuff said.

I know I will start this again, soon… So here is a route I want to try (there and back again = 3km)

It’s Rage Against The Machine’s “Bullet in the head”.

Firstly, it is in perfect tempo for my steps. Then, it apparently runs in a form of minute rhythm, by which I mean that the second verse starts exactly after 2 minutes (give or take a few seconds) and it lasts 4:57 minutes.
Since all I can normally manage are 4 minute runs, I can use this song to generate a last minute of running because Zack de la Rocha builds it up from a low tone of voice until he is going absolutely nuts screaming his head off at the end. The last 20 bars are in double time, with extra hard guitar, so I can give it my all before collapsing.

Could be that the reason is that I’ve stopped doing this. Or taken a 3-month-break.
The battery on the timer died, too, so even though I have been on a few walk-runs lately, I have no way to measure time run vs. time walked.
Still I feel like posting here that yesterday, I have managed 3 fairly “long” runs (for my standard!), and I ran further than the day before that. I am incredibly slow and my steps are tiny, but still, progress is being made. I feel becoming fitter and losing weight is just one of the benefits.

Need I say more?