New Year of Running - 1/1/11 - 1/15/11

[emily_in_nc]

4 miles on the treadmill today - my longest ride in maybe a year or close to it? Coolio!

[limewave]

6.5 "easy" miles for me yesterday. I started going to a group trainer ride on Tuesday nights. It's brutal. My legs feel like jello that night and lead the next day. I'm dually training for a 25k run and a 35 mile mountain bike race.

[GLC1968]

I've been blowing off my runs lately for some reason, but last night I started up again. I did an easy 5K+ on the treadmill.

For christmas I got a foot pod for my Garmin. Last night was the first time I tried it on the treadmill. It confirmed my suspicions. Our treadmill is uncalibrated. The belt moves faster than the console indicates. The treadmill would say I was running at a 5.0 (12 min/mile) but my garmin had me at a 10:30 min/mile. Based on running out on the road, the Garmin numbers feel more correct.

My guess is that this is not easily fixable and it might be a good excuse to upgrade our treadmill.

[skhill]

Ah, the treadmill... Today was supposed to be a 10 mile long run, ended up stopping at 9, my longest treadmill run ever. We have a 30 min. limit at the Y, but as long as there are treadmills free, I just reset it and keep going. But 9 miles of that was plenty.

But it's warming up this weekend! so maybe next week will be mainly outside running.

[OakLeaf]

GLC, did you calibrate your footpod on the road first? There was a very large difference between the default calibration and what I came up with when I calibrated mine. I need to do mine again, but I'm holding off until I feel like I'm completely recovered from my crash. I was running really heavy for a while.

I've been walking more than running the past few days (minor stomach issues, cold weather, etc), but my last run yesterday felt MUCH better. I've walked pretty much every day I haven't run, including walking the 2.5 miles each way to the spa for the whole day of pampering DH gave me for Christmas. Brisk on the way there, a languorous walk back.

I'm planning intervals for tomorrow and I'm sure I've never looked forward to intervals the way I am these! I hope it feels as good as I think it will.

Also, I signed up for the Warrior Dash in Ohio in June. Some people from my gym are going to do it, and that was the nudge I needed to get me to sign up. It had actually filled up while I was dithering, but they added more waves. It'll be ... something.

[GLC1968]

GLC, did you calibrate your footpod on the road first? There was a very large difference between the default calibration and what I came up with when I calibrated mine. I need to do mine again, but I'm holding off until I feel like I'm completely recovered from my crash. I was running really heavy for a while.

I did. I'd be more skeptical, except that it basically gave me confirmation of what I suspected just based on feel for the past few months anyway. Then I did some research and our particular treadmill is not known for it's ability to last. We've been using it for 8 years now...so I'm not surprised.

Also, I signed up for the Warrior Dash in Ohio in June. Some people from my gym are going to do it, and that was the nudge I needed to get me to sign up. It had actually filled up while I was dithering, but they added more waves. It'll be ... something.

Cool! I just signed up to do it here (next Sept) and I can't wait! I'll be curious to see how your experience goes.

[colby]

I ran a few times this week, once was on the cross-trainer at the gym (so not really running, but it's not exactly like an elliptical either) for about 50 minutes, today in LA after the sun started to set. I came from 6" of snow to 78 degree days, it's disorienting. And warm. But I got an hour in no less.