One hour on the treadmill. It was too icy to run outside. I hope the snow and ice melt enough today for me to run outside tomorrow.
I set the treadmill at 1% grade. I measured my heart beat using the sensors on the treadmill right before the end of each mile. I'm listing heart rates in parantheses following the paces here. I started slowly and ran a mile at 10:55 pace (132), then another mile at 10:00 pace (144). Then I went up to 9:31 pace (145) for a mile and increased the pace by .1 mph for each mile thereafter, creating subsequent splits of 9:23 (148), 9:14 (148), and 9:05 (153). I still had a couple of minutes left in my hour after those 6 miles, so I upped the pace to 8:34 (154) for the remaining .22 miles. Average pace was 9:39.
It would take too long for me to drive to work (where the treadmill is) and back early in the morning, especially since I had to drive to seminary today. So in order to eliminate an extra round trip to the office, I got up early (but not as early as I should have - see below) and worked for a while in the morning and then came in to work after all the kids had gone to school and ran on the treadmill then.
As I drove up to my office this morning, I realized that I had neglected to bring a towel. I could have driven back home to get one, but it would have taken me about a half an hour to get there and back. There's a new Target close to my office and I figured we could use some new towels anyway, so I went to Target and bought a towel. That little detour probably took me about 15 minutes.
Now for an explanation of why I did not get up as early as I should have. 1) I was up until midnight reading a book. I'm often like this when I read a book. I do nothing but read until I finish the book. The book was Catching Fire, the second book in the The Hunger Games series. 2) My daughter came and climbed into bed with me around 4 am because she had had a bad dream. I finally sent her back to her own room at about 5 am. The good news is that the third book in the The Hunger Games series hasn't been published yet, so I can maybe go to bed on time tonight instead of staying up to read. | 