Jogging #9: The Rise of Technology

[serinde]

I said to myself, "Self, the school gym has treadmills. Fridays being somewhat slow, and the weather being yucky, perhaps you can do today's workout on those instead." And so it came to pass.

Hate doing it indoors; way too hot. Also I need to get another Super Mega Deluxe Your Titties Go Nowhere bra. But it was all sufficient unto the purpose. I did find out exactly how embarrassingly slow my "running" is. No, I'm not going to share.

It's interesting that the idea of a salad for lunch is putrid if I don't exercise, but the only desirable solution if I do.

Down half a pound this morning. I have broken a tens place yay!

Comments

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[missionista.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel better, when I was running, I was averaging a 12 minute mile. Dude! When I was realy training, and trying to be a bit fast, I think I got down to 11 minutes or something.

[pndc.livejournal.com]

Umm, a 12 minute mile is a mere 5mph. I *walk* at about 4.5mph and I'm not exactly built for speed...

Are you sure you didn't mean that you were averaging 12mph, which is a fairly typical running speed?

[missionista.livejournal.com]

No, really, a 12 minute mile. Lots of people can run 8 and 9 and 10 minute miles. Whenever I ran a 10K or whatever, we'd line up according to how fast we ran a mile. So people like Grete Waitz would be running 5 minute miles. Slowpokes like me would be running 12, 13 and 14 minute miles.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Nope. That is in fact what I was making: about 5mph.

And yeah, I can walk about 4mph. Sad, innit?