1. I cannot do math: I thought I could. I mean, I minored in it. I have a computer and phone that have calculators. I have an actual calculator. No excuse. The past few (I don't even know how many) times I've gone running and then posted here my distances/times, I tried to not include a 0.5 mile warm-up at 4.0 mph. However, when I subtracted the 0.5 miles from the overall time, I somehow thought that corresponded to 5 minutes off the clock. Sigh. Yeah, I know. So please ignore my previous times. It's probably better if you ignore the distances, too. From now on, I'm going to include my 0.5 mile warm-up walk in my distances and times since I clearly cannot be trusted to do basic rate*time=distance calculations.
Time out for a learning moment: you should always do some sort of warm-up before starting to run. It will help your legs stretch out before you pick up the pace. This guy hopped on the treadmill today a few down from me and just started going for it. It looked impressive until 10 minutes later when he stopped his treadmill all of a sudden and was kneading his calf muscle. Cramp. That sucks. Similarly, you should preferably do a cool-down walk. Today, I only did a 2 minute cool-down since there were a ton of people on line for the treadmill, but usually I try to do 5 minutes and slowly decrease the speed and incline.
2. I cannot read a running schedule: On Sunday, I was supposed to only jog 0.5 miles 3 times (with walks in between). I did it 7 times. No wonder I was dying at the end! I realized this today when I finally read my training plan for the first time since I made it over a week ago (since then I've just been glancing at the distances really quickly before heading to the gym).
So today, the schedule said to run 0.75 miles twice with a 0.25 mile walk in between. I sort of stuck to it but sort of didn't. I did only run twice, but the first time I did more like 0.80 miles at 6.0 mph (no biggie, I had good music playing) and so walked 0.20 miles at 4.0 mph and then I noticed that there was a huge line for the treadmills and the Treadmill Police were making sure people stuck to the 30 minute limits, so I just ran for as long as I could the second time until I hit 30 minutes. Which means that I ran 1 mile to end it. I think about 0.5 was at the 6.0 mph and then the other 0.5 was somewhere between 6.3 and 6.5 mph. It felt really good to run faster since even 6.0 mph feels like I'm not quite running. In total, I did 2.55 miles in 29 minutes at an incline of 1.0.
3. I built an Ikea table and chairs last night: Why does this make me a genius? Well it was a lot of time spent on my knees (that's what she said.) and by the time I was done with one chair and 20% of the table, my knees were hurting from pressing against the ground. I was even in a room with a really puffy carpet. So today my knees were hurting a bit at work and then they didn't feel 100% at the gym. Ooo, but that gives me a reason why I'm an actual genius: I didn't over strain myself running, which would have made my knees even worse. Hopefully tomorrow they'll be all better.
Anyway, I have to go to bed. I had to be in at work at 7:30am this morning which is usually around the time that I'm awake and getting out of bed. Not cool, job, not cool.
Hope everyone is having an acceptable first-full-week-back-at-work-since-the-new-year!
-J
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