So since the Hypothermic Half Marathon last weekend my brain absolutely refuses to run outside…but I am having trouble convincing myself to go long on the treadmill. I used to do runs between 1.5 and 3 hours all the time and was able to keep myself focused…but I seem to have lost that in the past year or so.
To try and recover that I decided to try run / walk intervals to help break up the monotony a bit and see if that works…and it did not bad.
I did 10 minutes at 7 mph to warm up and get things started, then did a minute at a 4 mph walk. I then repeated 9 minutes at 7 and 1 minute at 4 until I hit the 50 minute mark. At that point I had to hop off the treadmill for a couple minutes – when I got back on I started at 7 mph and then every minute I bumped the speed 0.1 mph until I hit 8 mph at the hour mark. I ran at 8 to finish out the last little bit I had left to do to hit 7 miles and ended at 60:52.
That worked pretty well – I could definitely do that for longer periods and will look at trying that next weekend. If I am to regain a bit of the tracking I lost over the past couple months and then keep moving forward I need to make sure I am not skipping my long runs due to weather.
I ran today in my Hoka One One Cliftons – again they worked well on the treadmill and made sure my legs weren’t beat up during the run. Mileage on the Cliftons is now past the 335 mile mark which is about where I have been having to retire my Nike Pegasus 30 over the past couple years. The shoes show no sign of stopping yet!
Ok – lets make March count!
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