Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on July 31st, 2006 in C25K

Plan: Run 5 mins, walk 3 mins, run 8 mins, walk 3 mins, run 5 mins
Actual: Run 5 mins, walk 3 mins, run 8 mins, walk 3 mins, run 5 mins

Today’s run went fine.  I’ve come to the conclusion that I can actually run anything called for in the C25K plan as long as it allows for some walking breaks. This week I went a bit further than usual as the plan has now extended the workout from the normal 20 mins to 24 mins.

As I get near the end of the C25K plan, I’ve been looking to getting a new gadget to celebrate my C25K graduation and for when I start to move on to more running.  I still have some more research to do, but I’m torn between the Garmin Forerunner 305 running GPS and heart rate monitor and the Polar S625X running computer and heart rate monitor.  Some key things I’m looking for are:

• Heart rate monitoring
• Being able to get exact distances and pace
• Being able to analyze the data on my PC
• Figuring out how many calories I’ve burned

I prefer the GPS device as I can plot my routes, but I’m concerned about the accuracy of the distances.  The Polar device has an extremely good reuptation and that’s where I’m leaning right now, but that seems to change on an hourly basis.