Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Treadmill Tempo Run: 4/20/11

It was a dark and stormy morning.  I got up this morning, turned on the TV while I stretched, and noticed a nice line of storms moving into our area.  They appeared to still be about 30 minutes away, so I stretched quickly, headed out to the car and towards the park.  Just as I left the driveway I started seeing some pretty serious lightning off to the west.  So I turned the car around, went home, packed up all my stuff I would need for the day and headed to the fitness center for a run on the treadmill.  Joy of joys. 

I dislike the treadmill.  It's mind numbingly boring and always seems more difficult than pavement for some reason.  I started out with a quick warm up walk and then bumped it up to 9:40/mile.  I held that pace for about 33 minutes.  I watched TV.  It was news.  I wiped the sweat off.  I saw some lightning out the window.  Then I was done and I showered. 

During the course of the run my heart rate gradually increased from about 150 shortly after I started running up to about 170 at the end of the run.

Today's Stats:  I did around 3.4 miles in about 33 minutes for an average pace of 9:40/mile.  It seemed harder than that same pace on the road. 

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