Progress charts always look sad at the beginning

Can you see that tiny blip at the beginning of the chart? That is my progress. And that blue line at the top? That's the 'Goal' line. There's also a little running guy at the bottom, nice touch RunKeeper, very motivating.

It's hard to decide whether or not I am on track. Do I count each week by Sundays? Or do I count every 7 days? This is probably one of the things I should establish early on and hope that it's the right decision.

I think ultimately my nerdy analyst side is telling me that start of week is Monday and end of week is Sunday, so for ease I'm going to stick with that.

I am hesitantly glad to say that I am currently on track, as long as I manage to run 7.41km tomorrow, then I will have clocked up 40km for the year so far. I really need to start doing morning runs again. and until I get fitter, I should probably do 4 runs a week to get these distances. I'm feeling like a binge runner - freaking out and cramming in a bunch of kms to make sure I don't fall behind.

In terms of fitness, I think my muscles have finally accepted that this is happening. The first week was pretty rough, I felt so sore all over and I really needed to push myself to keep up the pace. The 5k run on Monday was my worst in a very long time, geez looking at the picture above my 5k times are all over the place.

I need to get into a good routine, get some morning runs in and hopefully this will start going a little smoother. Looking forward to a end of January update ^_^



Just one more RunKeeper tracking picture, I love progress charts and graphs (but like I said, they always look a bit depressing and out of reach at the beginning.