Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Tempo on the Treadmill

My wife asked me tonight why I wasn't running outside today when the sun was shining and the temperature was just under freezing. I told her that I was tired of running in the cold wind, and that I just decided to run inside and be happy about it. That'll probably swing back the other way after a few treadmill sessions, but for today I was glad to run in a comfortable setting while watching the Caribbean World Series on TV.

I ran for 50 minutes, including 20 minutes at a pace of about 6:40/mile on the treadmill's display. I have no illusions I was running at that pace if translated to outside, but it was pretty fast. I also set the incline to 3.5%, and keep trying to up that in order to make the runs tougher. I went 6 miles on the machine, but as we've established before that probably equates to about 4 miles outside.

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