Today I had to settle with running on the treadmill.....BLAAAAAAHHHHH I decided that it was to late and way to cold to run outside tonight, so I took the dreaded walk down stairs and climbed on the treadmill. It was the longest 9 miles of my life!!! Actually it wasn't to bad, I put on Talladega Nights on the PSP and made it through most of the movie. I will cover up the display next time, it is hard not to look at the time while running on the treadmill. I ran the first 5 miles in 40 minutes and then decided that I would run a 5k for some speed work. Split's 5 miles 8:00 min pace ave mile 6 6:40 mile 7 6:18 Mile 8 6:00 Mile .1 .32 Mile 9 9:00 min ave pace (cool down) I ran the entire time with the treadmill on a 2% incline. I tried speeding up the treadmill for the last .5 miles but my treadmill will not run faster than 10 mph? So I increased the incline to 4% for the last .5 I am happy with the work out, even though it was on a treadmill, I still feel like I got a good work out. It actually felt harder to run a 6:00 min pace on the treadmill??? I don't know if that is normal, but for the nmost part I felt good the whole time. I just hate that clock on the treadmill.
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