A.M. - 60 minute run on the treadmill. Good news is they fixed my farvorite treadmill and I got to use it. Bad news is they didn't do a very good job...Read on to see the lameness that befell me:
5 minutes @ 9.5 mph, flat 5 mins @ 10.0, flat 20 mins @ 10.0 with progressive inclines, 3 mins each at 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 and 5 mins at 3.5 2.5 mins @ 10.0, flat 7.5 mins @ 10.5, flat
At the 40-minute mark, I went to bump it up to 11.0 mph. My intention was to go at 11.0 for 10 mins and then 11.5 for the last 10 minutes. As soon as I did, the machine struggled to get up to about 10.8 then oscilated between 10.4 and 10.8 and after a few seconds gave me some dumb message that it couldn't attain targeted speed. Then it settled at 10.7 mph. I tried to bump it up a few more times, but it did the same thing. Lame! I was feeling good and could have run according to my plan. I could have (and probably should have) hoped on another machine, but I just ended up staying on it for the remainder of the run at 10.7 mph. I wondered if they had put some kind of speed-governer on it to protect it from people like me. I spoke with the lady at the front desk who denied that notion and said they'd get the repair guy in again. I guess its back to treadmill option 2 for my next gym run.
P.M. - Rode up Big Cottonwood to Brighton and back (~40 miles). |