Friday, May 22, 2009

Treadmill Challenge - 21/05

Today was interesting. Off to the gym with the temptation to try another hard treadmill session, particularly as Stoddy was talking abouttrash  how the record was going to go. I decided to take a common sense approach and use a gym bike, rather than another hard one.
 
I did 10km on the bike in around 18mins and then hit the treadmill. I was nice and warm and upped the pace pretty quickly after a couple of minutes warm up to the running rythm. With the knowledge that the treadmill maxes out at 12mph i was at 10mph after 8minutes. Feeling ing comfortable i held thisuntil 20mins and was over 3 miles at that mark. I decided at 20minutes to then hang on for another 10 and see what happens. I upped the pace at 22mins then again at 25 with the last 2 minutes at 12mph. New PB 4.8miles! This means that 5miles in the 30minutes has to be acheiveable as i had already donea bike session before getting on the treadmill.

Working at home today - hoping to run to the lido, swim then run back. Swim will be a straight 1600m today in the interests of time.