Treadmill workout today since the weather was nasty. As I've been feeling pretty good this week I decided to go with the flow and try running some near 7:00 pace miles like we were doing a few weeks ago before I had my 'slump'. After 2 mile warmup, happilly I was able to hold the pace (6:58 on treadmill) for 3.5 miles before I slowed down for a cool-down mile.
However I'm always a bit skeptical about treadmill workouts as they always seem to be a bit easier than the equivalent road workout -- at least for tempo/speed workouts. I put the incline on 1.0 (1% ???) to try to counter the lack of wind resistance but I'm still not sure if I could duplicate this on the road. If the weather permits I'll give it a shot next week on the roads and see what happens. | 