Moving Indoors (2010 Run 9)

Date: 2/19/10
Time of Day: 10:30 PM
Location: Apartment gym

Conditions: 71 degrees of climate controlled goodness
Music: Winter Olympics

Clothing: Short sleeved wicking shirt, compression shorts, shorts

Shoes: Nike Air Pegasus 26+

 

I decided to try something different. On a whim, I wanted to see how fast I could run.

 

Thus, I abandoned any usual training (not that my training had been remotely usual or routine) that I had been doing and went indoors.

 

I switched on the Olympics and tried to run a 10 minute mile. I knew it was going to be hard and I'd probably be very panty by the time I was done, but I tried it.

 

The first 10 seconds or so went well...and then I started to feel it. It was actually a little scarier than I had anticipated. While I was able to keep the pace, I did start to worry as I sped the treadmill up that my legs would not be able to keep up with the machinery and I would be zoomed off the back. Luckily, that didn't happen. What did happen was every muscle in my body started to ache as I was clearly pushing waaaaay into the anaerobic zone. I was able to make 2 minutes before I couldn't go a step further...so I backed it back down to a walk.

 

Then I decided, we'll just do Week 1 Day 1 at essentially a sprint. Work in some speed drills. I was able to complete 4 reps before I really, really started hurting.

 

In the end, I only ran for 6 minutes, but I ran at a pace that was about 120 percent of my usual pace...it was a speed drill. And I was definitely exhausted.

 

9 down. 201 to go.