a couple days

On Thursday, I did:
0.5-mile warm-up walk at 4.0 mph
0.75-mile jog at 6.5 mph
0.25-mile walk at 4.0 mph
0.75-mile jog at 6.5 mph
0.25-mile walk at 4.0 mph

That was all at 1.0 incline. After the last walk, I did an extra 1/4 mile walk at 4.0 mph on a 4.0 incline. Really worked those glutes! In total it was 2.8 miles in 33 minutes.

But onto more interesting things:
Today I did my first run without walking. I started with the normal warm-up walk and then I did just over 2 miles (2.1 miles to be exact) at 6.0 mph. No walking!

Even more impressively, I upped the incline a bit during so that mile 1.0-1.2 were at 2.0 incline, 1.2-1.4 were at 3.0 incline, and 1.4-1.6 were back at 2.0 incline. The rest of it was all at 1.0. I was going to just set the treadmill for "hills" but the treadmill I was on today didn't have that feature so I semi-created it myself. I think it was better that I did it since I could stop the hills whenever they got to be too much instead if I was doing the hills program then I would have been stuck.

Even more impressively than that, I didn't listen to music at all. Usually on weeknights the treadmill room is super loud so I've been listening to music to try to drown it out a bit. However, today it wasn't as noisy. I don't know if I'm going to do many more runs without music but it was nice for this time. Usually my mind runs at a mile a minute (I am definitely unable to keep up!) so I like when I find activities that slow it down. I thought I would use the 20 minutes of running to think about things but I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could think of much. I was focused on my breathing and placing one foot in front of the other and not much else. Although I did have one line of a song stuck in my head but now I can't remember what it was.


I said I would post a photo of my hair accessories if I remembered to take a photo. Lo and behold, I did:

As you can see, my ponytail is almost as short as a ponytail could possibly be. The front snap clip holds the headband in place (I find that even though the headband has grips, it still slides on my hair and is very distracting when I run or work out) and then the back snap clip holds the hair that isn't long enough for the hair band.

Anyway, it's time for showering and thinking about food options for tonight.

Still jazzed about today's run, hopefully tomorrow's goes equally smoothly!
-J