I was about to adjust the volume on a weirdly quiet video without flying off the treadmill today (this requires stretching forward to reach the volume controls on my iPad). Major accomplishment.
Other than that, a decent workout. I flagged a bit in the last km, not sure why, but overall was good and BPM was lower, too.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
I seem to be trending close to a 9:00/km average or even slightly below it lately, which is nice in that it means I’m getting faster and presumably stronger, increasing my stamina. Today’s workout was the same, though the BPM was up a fair bit, but not to an actual alarming extent.
Looking at the weather forecast, my hope for mild and not-wet weather to resume outdoor runs is not looking great, with highs forecast to be single digits over the next couple of days and plenty of precipitation seemingly on the way. Maybe next week! (Although the 10-day forecast is also a bit poopy at the moment, but that could change.)
Still, today’s workout was good and I am glad.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
I think I had food poisoning or something that made my guts go, “Whoa, what are you doing?” yesterday because after the workout I spent way more time in the bathroom than I’d prefer. By the end of the day, I was exhausted and worried I was getting sick for the first time in 2+ years. Today, after having breakfast, I felt much better and think it was some transient bug or something.
Anyway, I managed to do a workout today after initially fearing I would be too unwell to do it and was actually pretty dang zippy, too. Nice!
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
Or Silly Bowel Syndrome, as I once again had to use the loo about three-quarters of the way through the workout. I also flagged a bit in the second km, but ended up with a fairly jaunty pace overall and pushed comfortably past 5K as I watched to the end of the currently playing video. Not bad for a Monday.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
Another 5K workout interrupted by having to use the loo. Why can’t my body learn to be patient and wait until I’m off the treadmill? On the plus side, this time the interruption didn’t appear to affect my overall pace, which was reasonably zippy.
I accidentally queued up a “You’re using your PC” wrong video, which was old (2020, which feels ancient these days) and was a little too basic to be useful to me. It’s pretty much a primer on what sort of things to look for when you’re new to computers, which…I am not.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
I don’t normally do a workout on Saturday, which is my traditional birding day, but today I did! And may again in the future. The workout was pretty on par, with no weird phone calls or other interruptions.
Among other videos, I watched more of a series on creating a video game from The Game Maker’s Toolkit. It has the bonus of being:
Here’s the first video for reference:
And here are my stats, completely unrelated to British guys with red hair making video games (higher BPM is probably due to having the door to the room shut, which made it a lot warmer and caused copious sweating):
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
I’ve been experimenting with starting workouts earlier, and this one officially began at 10:22 a.m., the earliest yet! I’m still not sure how this will go. I know if I do an early workout then have a hot shower, I then want to nap. So I am having lukewarm showers, which just makes me want to get out of the shower instead.
Today’s workout was interrupted by a phishing phone call that I foolishly answered for reasons I cannot explain. I then changed my phone settings to once again silence unknown callers. This led to the 4th km being slow and throwing off my pace, but it still ended up being decent, anyway. I seemed to sweat more today. I think the room was warmer to start with. I’m now in that transition period where sometimes I run that fan and sometimes I run the heater.
Overall, the workout went well and my BPM was the lowest yet, perhaps because it got a chance to come down due to the interruption.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
I’m running out of things to say. Today’s workout went fine, but a bit slower, likely due to an unanticipated pause midway through. Still zippy, though, and BPM was solid, too.
I remain pleased.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
It’s the first day of the month and my first workout of the month on the treadmill.
I remembered to end the workout on the watch today, woo.
It was another swift 5K+ workout, also woo.
I watched various videos, and the Ryan George one on annoying people was especially on point.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
Endless in the sense that I forgot to end the workout on the watch for some reason–I think I was distracted by a video on why so many NFTs are ugly. As a result, the watch finally asked me if I had ended my workout after I was sitting down and chilling out. I said yes and my average pace had ballooned to 9:30 due to all the sitting and non-exercising tacked onto the end (why the watch app is not smart enough to exclude this, I don’t know. Maybe for watchOS XX).
I pulled the correct times from the workout and ended up with a surprising actual average of 8:57/km. This is quite fast. The first km was 8:46/km, which is very fast. Like weirdly fast. I have no real explanation. The other km (I did a full 5K again, go me!) were pretty swift, so the average pace I calculated seems accurate.
I watched videos on nuking a city, assembling dual monitors, free Windows utilities and the aforementioned why NFTs are so ugly. Apparently this was the magic combo that really got me moving.
And thus I end the month with 20 treadmill workouts.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
After having some leftover pizza for lunch and fearing I’d packed on too many calories before tomorrow’s end-of-the-month weigh-in, I hopped on the treadmill and started a workout. And kept going past 3K (old news), 4K (better), 5K (the new hotness) and all the way past 6 km, then on to just over an hour. This matches about the same amount of time I spend doing a 5K run (split roughly between the run and walking to and from the trail), so I don’t feel it cost more in terms of typical time commitment.
I watched a bevy of videos, with the highlight (?) being a Corridor Crew contest on making really gross CGI. It wasn’t as bad as it could have been and some of the (universal) reactions were funny, but maybe not the best choice for a workout video. Still, the effect of so many videos is that I lost myself in them and turned out a pretty decent workout in return because I was allowing my mind to focus on things other than the physical effort.
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)
Another 5K workout, woo, and my BPM was lower, too. Double woo. My pace was perfectly average. I have nothing else to add.
Except…the first video I watched was a Let’s Game It Out and I normally find these quite amusing. Not too long into the video, Josh talks about the sponsor, and previously he has done his own little spin on the sponsor, making it zestier and funny. In this video, he did not do that. He appeared to be reading copy provided directly from the game publisher, and it went on and on. It went on so long I got annoyed enough to pause the video, pause the treadmill, pause the workout on my watch, then scrub through the video on the iPad to when it got past the sponsor. I then resumed all the things.
I have never done this before. Am I just getting impatient and cranky in my older age? Maybe. But this just seemed to drag on interminably and the blurb was generic, the game looked boring, and I didn’t care. So I skipped. (Fake edit: I checked, and the sponsor part starts at 1:05 and ends at 3:03. No wonder it felt like it was going on forever)
Still a good workout, though!
(Read edit, since I forgot to mention this: “Treadmill walks” sounded too leisurely, so this category has been renamed Treadmill workouts, which sounds all sweaty and exercise-y.)
Stats:
Speed: 6.5 Incline: 5 Pace: 8:51/km (8:49/km) Time: 48:43 (47:05) Distance: 5.50 km (5.34 km) Calories burned: 478 (335) BPM: 130 (120)