AM: Decided to do 10 mile tempo on the treadmill. Bad idea. I am not used to long distances on the treadmill, my longest being 5 or 6 since last winter. Started with 1.5 warm up, stopped and stretched, then .5 more warm up, then ramped up to 9.3 mph, which made my first mile 6:30 (ramping up) and 6:22 I think for the second. I was not feeling good, whoever said the treadmill is autopilot is smoking crack. I stopped after 2 miles for a bathroom break, then hopped back on, did .25 slow, then ramped up to 9.2, which ends up around 6:27 pace, but I felt yucky yucky and had wild fantasys of pushing the stop button and nightmares of being flung off the back of the treadmill. Stomach uncooperative, and I have to go to the bathroom again after doing 2.25 more tempo. I am on the pot gasping for air and this wakes up Paul who asks me what's wrong, just a low level heart hemorrage, go back to bed. Ok so back to the treadmill, where I am thinking I'll just do two more miles, but after .5 mile fast I have a cramp and am thinking I am seriously going to get tossed by the treadmill, and in the last quarter mile of the mile I admit I grabbed the bars and the console once, afraid I was going to get flung but at least wanting to make it a mile, and I finish the mile and call it good for the tempo portion. I only run .25 more on the treadmill, and in a wild, treadmill induced craze I decide anything was better than this, so I throw on a coat and gloves and head outside (had only sports bra and breezy shorts). My driveway has 6-8 inches of new snow, so the powder ices my lower calves as I go down the hill, have to jump snow embankment. Well, it was cold outside, turns out about 20F, so I guess just cooling down outside could count as icing. Ice all over the road, stomach crampy, but at least it wasn't the treadmill. Total miles in AM 10.05 Late lunch, nap, then out again at 4:05. PM Need to get in 6 miles, after one mile I am feeling decent and my second mile starts fast so I say what the heck, I'll try to tempo, miles were 6:12 (slight downhill), 7:02 (big uphill), 6:00 (reverse of mile 2, so big downhill), 6:49 (reverse of mile 1, so slight uphill, did I mention it is snowing!), .75 at 6:52 pace (uphill, bad form, sunglasses all foggy from bad breathing, body is exhausted). It was a net uphill tempo, ave pace 6:34 for 4.75 miles, not bad for conditions, but I felt wasted by the end. No appetite tonight, so I ate the nasty Rocket Fuel cereal. I figure if I'm not going to enjoy what I'm eating anyway it might as well be healthy. Abs, hamstring strengthening and stretching in evening weight: 119 first time in teens since 9th/10th grade or so. A testament to my stomach issues during the treadmill run :) I told myself I was going to get in the teens this week, so since it came early does that mean I get to pig out now? I guess I'll wait for my appetite to kick in at least. Ok sorry for the long rambling post.
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