New Week, New Plan!

Typically, the first day of my new plan (see this previous post) missed the two straight weeks of glorious sunshine and so thus was a white, misty damp Swansea morning. Saying that I got up at 7 on the dot and went for a run and everything. I also have the full intention of going to tesco today to buy the food for my healthy eating plan, and have just spent about half an hour setting up a variety of things in excel to chart and measure and generally motivate me forward. This is a good beginning! For the record I'm a total novice, very unfit and overweight, with the only upside being I'm now gonna do something about it! So, I wanted to share with you the awesome thing which I think will be integral to my success in this endeavor... the ipod application 'Get Running'.

GetRunning ipod app :)

Essentially, it's a brilliant personal running coach, designed to get you from 'couch to 5k' in about 9 weeks by the looks of it. I don't mind how long it takes really though. It's done in intervals, to build up from even the most basic of levels (ie me) - so today it was run for a minute, walk for a minute and a half, repeat 8 times... It's very well done, with a 'soothing female voice' helpfully informing me when to run, when I'm halfway through, when I've got the last 10 seconds of running - a feature which was amusing to begin with but necessary by the end! (Yes, told you I was a beginner!) It also told me when it would be a good time to turn round halfway through the run to come home, which I thought was a nice touch. So well recommended, by myself and many others (which is why I thought I'd try the app in the first place). Oh and all this for only 79p! How awesome is that!