Hiya,
After my last run which was three inches short of a nightmare (rain + cold + wind), I had decided that in the case of likewise weather I would hit my treadmill instead of going outside. Work was finished at 15:30, I looked outside plus checked my weather app and a big no no. It was raining and the weather app said the temperature felt like 2°C. The dreadmill it was.
5 min walking briskly before I started running and then 6 parts of 4:30 running + 0:30 walking. I had checked my previous runs and had estimated 5,5 km/h for walking and 6,5 km/h for running which were on the low side of my runs. But on the dreadmill running feels so much harder! Walking I kept to 5,0 km/h and running to the foreseen 6,5 km/h. But it felt so much faster and harder than outdoors, while outdoors I do run a tad faster.
Anyhow, time ticked by slowly, while the dreadmill buzzed. I had put my cd of Lord of the Dance on, though you could not hear much of it because off the noise of the treadmill. And I was sweating! Not normal how much sweat I lost! Outside I hardly sweat at all! Anyhow, my last interval came and went by and I added another 5 mins of walking (the 5 min warm up and cool down are NOT counted in my distance) which I slowed down every minute to lower my heartrate gradually.
It was not fun (the dreadmill is never fun), but I have done my 30 mins of running. I added another 3,31 km (I use a footpod that is calibrated on multiple runs outside, so the distance should be more or less correct) to my Kilimanjaro challenge coming to 16,55 km and to the COGH challenge here.
Fingers crossed for nice weather on Saturday for my second 55 min run!
Cheers, Evy
CR7 - Jeffing 5:30:30
