The air is so bad out right now that I knew I had to run indoors, but I knew I couldn't run more than 6 miles on the treadmill without going out of my mind. So my compromise plan was to run two miles from home to the gym, run on the treadmill for five miles, and run home. The run to the gym was easy and the transition to gettting on the treadmill was easy. I have a little pocket of soreness in my left hamstring from Saturday's race, so I didn't want to push it too hard, but I knew I would get a little bored if I didn't keep it somewhat spicy. So I ran progressively quicker miles 6:52/6:45/6:35/6:30/6:22, adding 1% incline every other mile. The running itself felt fine, but I am not accustomed to the treadmill experience. So much of life is like a treadmill already, I prefer actual movement when I run. The hardest part of the morning was when I got off the treadmill, suited back up for the run home, headed out the gym door, and experienced a kind of vertigo from suddenly moving while running after five miles of being stationary. This lasted almost a mile. |