Well I meant to do 10 easy miles at about 7:30 pace for 75 mins today haha. But instead I did 7 of them a lot faster. I discovered the treadmill today, I was hanging around my work today after the inservice and I tried out a treadmill for the first time, I did about a mile and then went home. Then i went ran to the Cottonwood heights rec center, which is 1.5 miles, and I ran 7 miles on a treadmill. I put the speed to 9 miles per hour, I didn't know how fast this was until half an hour into the run when I checked and saw it was 6:40 pace, although I guess it was ok because the Treadmills incline thing was broken so it was a little easier than 6:40 anyway. I went down to 8.5, 7:03 pace for a while and then I went back up to 9 because I wanted to go home, theres not a lot to do on a tread mill besides make sure you don't fall of and fix your form. I went back down to 8.5 for the last mile and overall on the treadmill I did 7 miles in 48:13 mins. Pretty good, I didn't feel like it was too fast. I still had to run 1.5 miles home after the treadmill run, my legs were feeling really heavy and actually I found that it was a lot easier to run faster than slower after running on the treadmill, it was a peculiar run. My dad said that running on treadmills can be bad for your joints so I think I will try to do most my runs outside, but maybe once a week use a treadmill this break. Overall a good run, I am happy that I can still do a run like that. I am very tired, and I have been averaging a very low amount of sleep the past few days, tonight I will go to bed at 11 or earlier, and then I have to wake up at 7:30 so I will get a good 8 and 1/2 hours of sleep.
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