Today I got in the workout much earlier than usual and found that:
Overall a good workout with a healthy smattering of videos ranging from DIY routers to ghost revenge plans and more.
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 mid-evening workout because I chose to spend Family Day acting like a very lazy member of the family.
All the stats are pretty decent, with BPM dipping even lower still, which is always nice to see.
I watched videos from Ryan George, Brad Colbow, TechLinked (LTT), Mac Address (also LTT) and Tom Scott. All were fine, though I don’t like the MA guy’s hair. Get a haircut, hippie.
Also, Brad’s video on “So you wants to draw” was informative, even if I’m not a complete newbie anymore. He offered sage advice on balancing what you love to draw with actual lessons and such. I try to do this, which is one of the reasons I do drawing prompts, because maybe I don’t love drawing hippos, but maybe I should.
Also, I’m way behind on drawing prompts. Whoopsie.
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)
Yes, two whole days off from the treadmill and I feel guilty. But only a little, because the last two days I have done a boatload of walking. Some of it was even near the sea, where you will find boats, often loaded with things. Sometimes things on fire.
In the meantime, I queued up a bunch of random videos1Speaking of videos, I watched a TechLinked news thinger that LTT does and I find the format, where people off-camera always call out to the host, just sort of weird. Also Jason Strieb pulled down the collar of his t-shirt to reveal a hairy chest, so that was a thing. and managed a late evening workout to close my activity rings. Once again, the lae night effort was actually good instead of middling. Go me.
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)
Maybe it was something I ate. In any case, the workout today was fine, nothing remarkable at all, and I even went farther than panned, just past 5K (by coincidence, as I worked out until the current video ended, this turned out to be nearly the exact same distance as yesterday’s trip on the treadmill, one of those things I could never have planned, as math is hard). The one blip occurred with about five minutes to go when I suddenly, absolutely had to go to the bathroom. I paused the workout, went, then resumed and finished without further incident.
I only highlight this because of how unusual it is. I really do wonder if it was something I ate. Hmm, I say.
In the meantime, 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 returned to a 5K workout today, just because I felt like I’d slacked off by not doing a workout yesterday (I did walk 3 km to the mall, uphill and in imaginary snow, though). And it went fine, although I was not strangely swift™ as before, just kind of average.
I watched Linus Tech Tips look at dollar store electronics, watched Brad Colbow do a quick take on a new XP-Pen pen tablet, then rounded off by watching Tom Scott throw switches in a model train facility that trains (ho ho) real switch operators. All fine stuff, but none of it really funny as such, so I’ll blame the slower pace for the lack of yuks that could have fueled me. Yeah, that’s it.
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 day when I needed to hit my activity goals past mod-evening. I felt better today, though, so stepped onto the treadmill with less hesitation than yesterday.
For videos, I queued up some Linus Tech stuff, one video being “you get what you pay for” with AirPods knock-offs, the other being Linus trying and failing to replace Lithium batteries and producing bad sparks and having to run the battery packets outside in a bucket filled with sand. Good times all around.
As for the workout, as the title mentions, I was strangely swift. I used the usual settings and went for just over 30 minutes and managed an average pace of 7:58/km, which I did not really think was possible. BPM was good, calorie burn was a little light, but overall I have to admit I am pleased, if baffled.
Also, as we hit the halfway point of the month, I have done 10 workouts thus far. Madness!
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 a day of feeling incredibly blah and actually napping twice, I was not really feeling it. By 9:30 p.m. I still needed 28 minutes on my exercise goal and I wanted to complete my rings to keep my streak going, but again, incredible blahs.
So I went on the treadmill anyway, and I stayed on until I got to the move goal for the day (I knew that would take longer than the exercise goal). BPM was a little higher, but it seems to be that way when I work out later in the evening. Other stats were pretty normal, so yay. I again watched a bunch of videos, but lack the energy to recount them right now.
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, another 5K workout on the treadmill. I noticed that my legs are feeling a tiny bit sore, which means I’m actually working the muscles enough to make a difference. This is (for now) encouraging me to stretch my treadmill walks out to 5K, which takes around 45-48 minutes and is still faster than going out and doing a 5K run. Plus, the weather is almost always better inside.
I do plan on resuming runs in the outdoor world soonish, though. If the weather is mild and dry next week, I may start then.
For now, it was more videos and shaving a few minutes off my previous 5K pace. I also set the incline correctly to 5 right from the start. Go me.
Videos:
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 not sure what the title means. But yes, I kept going on today’s workout and hit 5 km, and a little more to boot, coming in at just over 48 minutes total.
There was a bit of a goof-up for the first 15 minutes, though, as I inadvertently left the incline at zero when it should have been 5. I changed it when I noticed, but still got in what would be a full regular workout with the usual incline settings.
And the workout went well! I watched four videos and by the end the main reason I stopped was not just because my YouTube queue was now empty, but I also really had to pee. I should have gone before I started, just as one should do before embarking on any kind of long journey.
For the record, the videos were:
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)
Farther: I walked 4.97 km. If I had known I was so close to 5K, I would have gone another 30 seconds or whatever.
Slower: As expected, the longer distance meant my pace was a bit slower overall, but pretty swift early on, as per usual.
Overall, I am pleased by the extra length and sweatiness and such. I have the fan turned up to 7 to cool off instead of the usual 3. I watched three videos, with the first two taking me far enough past 30 minutes that I felt like, what the heck, may as well keep on walking till the end. They were Snazzy Labs looking at Universal Control on Macs (was decent), a Let’s Game It Out on a game called The Maze, which seemed to drive Josh slowly mad, until he realized it was too boring to continue (was okay–I felt kind of bad for him, mazes are the worst) and finally a discussion from LTT on why PC ports still kind of suck (was okay, but really just looking to pad out the queue with something shorter).
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)
The faster part was my pace, a sizzling 9:00/km. The slower part was my BPM at a somewhat weirdly low 120. I mean, it’s good. I guess I was in a groove. I watched a long Let’s Game It Out that seemed to be a car repair sim (?) set in “East Canada.” Also, a short Tom Scott video on language. I love Scott’s voice. It’s strangely soothing.
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)
Today I really wanted to get out and go for a good walk. Not necessarily a run, but a nice brisk walk. But the rain relentlessly poured down all day, and I did not really feel like doing a brisk walk while getting soaked to my butt and beyond.
By mid-evening, it was clear the activity rings on my Apple Watch were not going to close while I sat staring at a computer screen, so I got on the treadmill for a record (?) fourth day in a row. Rings complete, woo!
The actual workout was probably a tad better than typical evening exercise (I always seem to be slower, like my body has already switched to sleepy time bed mode).
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)