May 23rd, 2013 (Thursday)

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228 when I woke up this morning and 229 after the run tonight.

Run tonight was 5 miles in 41:10 with 3 minutes of walking and almost all of the rest at 7.5 mph – there was a minute and a half at 8 mph and I tried to get up to 9 mph but the breaker in the panel for the treadmill tripped after about 10 seconds.  Run felt good and there was no cheating on the treadmill so that was good for the confidence.

I have a fan on the same circuit as the treadmill and it looks like the breaker is popping when the treadmill starts drawing more current for the faster speeds.  In the past couple weeks I have had the breaker trip twice – both times when I was above 8.5 mph – so it looks like the higher current draw in conjunction with the fan motor draw is enough to pop the breaker.  I will move where I have the fan plugged in for the next run and test the theory.

There are some shorter runs coming up in the next few weeks as the tapering begins and I would like to try some of them at higher speeds so I am going to have to sort this out for that to happen.


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