I started out this morning with my usual HIIT on the recumbant bike. I felt like my heart wasn't in it, but I tried to do my best anyway. My milage was a little lower than it has been recently, but not too bad. I DID work up a really good sweat!
I decided to take a free day on food today, because I really wanted sushi buffet and because I had to travel with a group of friends to an audition. So I gorged myself on sushi and followed up our audition day with a trip to Dairy Queen for a medium-sized peanut-butter-cup-cheesequake blizzard! Yummy, yum yum! Then I drank water like a crazy woman, because I had totally forgotten to drink all day, and it made me feel very bloated. I was later getting to the gym in time for ZUMBA, and I really felt too full to do yoga, so I decided to try doing something cardio to help sweat it off. Nothing sounded appealing, so I started walking on the treadmill. That wasn't doing the job for me, so, in a moment of extreme weakness, I RAN. Yes, it's true. It felt SO GOOD to run again...I can't even express it. This is a week and a half earlier than I had planned, but I was surprised at how easy it felt. I was only going to do a teensy bit of running, but once I got started, I couldn't help myself, and I just had to find out how conditioned I was. This is what my workout looked like.
1 mile walk at 3.0 MPH
1/2 mile run at 6.0 MPH
1/2 mile walk at 3.0 MPH
Then I started running at 6.5 MPH, and every tenth of a mile I upped my speed 1/10th of a mile faster, until I got to 7.5 MPH. I did 2/10th there, and again at 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, 8.5, 8.0, and 7.5 MPH. I finished with 1/10th of a mile at 7.0, 6.5, and 6.0, then cooled down with a 4/10ths walk at 3.0 MPH. My total time on the treadmill was 63:04, and I did a total of 5 miles. I figure that the 5k I ran was approximately 26:30. Not bad for 9 1/2 weeks off! I'm still going to try to be good for another week and a half, but I may sneak a run or two in before then...we'll see how/if my back reacts. | 