Get Running or Bust!

I decided that I need to change things up a bit, and instead of waiting until New Year's, I think December is the time, so by January I'm already in the groove. I'd heard about the Couch-to-5k program, and since I inadvertently took our 11 year old dog for an almost 3 mile walk the other day, I thought "I can do this!". So the next step was finding "an app for that...". I read a bunch of reviews and settled on Get Running, what seems to be a UK-based app from Benjohn Barnes. I just like saying "Benjohn".

I also liked that the reviews all mentioned how seamlessly the voice prompts worked over your music, how soothing the woman's voice was, and how the app didn't freeze or crash when the iPhone went into "sleep" mode. So far, all of this is true. The app follows the run for 1 minute, walk for 1:30 minutes schedule for the first week, gradually adding more running and less walking until you are running for 30 minutes straight. If I can get to a ten minute mile, I'll be golden for a 5k in February.

My favorite part is the app's accent when she tells me "You've just completed your 4th run. There are only 4 runs left".