I have been a bit stir-crazy here in Calgary, but the snow & ice on the sidewalks was discouragement for me to run outdoors.
Run outside? In this? No, thanks!
So off we went. My Dad did his own thing on the hamster wheel while my sis & I ran around in circles together on a track. In truth, I don't think it was much improvement over the hamster wheel.
I didn't have much of a plan, I just knew I was too unfit to run continuously and thought intervals sounded like a nice lazy option*.
The intervals were as uncreative & lazy as they could get: 200m, 400m, 600m, 800m, 1k then pyramiding back down to 200m. My recovery was a solid 200m for every rep.
At the 1k I decided a time trial was in order. Yikes! While I could have gone faster if I had really pushed myself, I will still take the number as a baseline stat.
5.23min. Eek! My first 400m were doing well, but I faded rather quickly.
On the bright side, lots of room for improvement! I didn't finish the whole set - hallelujah! My family had finished their work-outs so I quickly used that as the excuse to finish mine.
I realized how much I'm used to running outdoors when I came very close to spitting over the side of the railing after my 1k time trial. I don't think anyone on the lower level would have appreciated having a wad of spit raining down on them, so it was fortunate I restrained myself. Eesh, all this new etiquette to learn when running indoors: stay in your lane, run in the correct direction, don't spit over the railing. It may very well be a long winter indeed.
*I will also use the excuse of my low red blood cell count having gone from sea level to a much higher elevation, which would have had an impact on today.
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