There's an App for That…
11 May
I love my iPhone, that’s a given. But this morning I wasn’t exactly “feelin’ the love” about that little contraption. I was walking along a peaceful road near my house, when a jarring voice cuts through the silence of my headphones and commands, “Run 2 Minutes.” My lungs screamed against this command, but I attempted the second of the two-minute runs in today’s program.
Why? Because last week I downloaded an app called Running Trainer 5k. I have had a couple of friends start training for a 5k, and I thought “sure, why not? it’ll be good for me, right?” Ummm… now I’m not so sure about that.
It starts out on day one with a couple of run/walk segments, each one minute long. Then it switches to two-minute segments, alternating between running and walking. I made it through two of those running segments (two minutes long) successfully. Then, when Ms. Trainer said “Run 3 Minutes”, I might have cursed at her in my head a bit, and kept right on walking. I am so out of shape!
Why am I sharing such a pathetic part of myself? Really it’s just to point out that there’s an app for that! The Running Trainer 5k app keeps track of how far you’ve run (with the GPS) and even marks it on a map. (See the screen capture for an example – although it is NOT from my session this morning!) As already mentioned, it tells you when to walk and when to run, and increases the difficulty each day, so you’re running 5k by the end of 10 weeks. Well, that’s the intention at least. We’ll see how well it does with me 
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That sounds like a cool program. My sisters want to run a 5k later this month and want me to join them.. maybe I need something like that to get more ready!