As per usual, I loaded up a bunch of videos for the workout and despite a somewhat slow start, was humming along after that. When I hit the 5K mark I was astonished to see a pace of 9:18/km–this is actually slower than the speed of the treadmill, which is set to a pace of 9:13/km. How did I defy physics?
I did lean down to scratch a leg a few times, but that couldn’t be it. I also leaned forward to scrub through the sponsored segment section of a Corridor Crew video. Now, I get it, these people need to pay the bills, but there are right ways and wrong ways to include sponsored segments if you insist on doing them.
The right way:
- Ryan George puts them at the end of his videos and actually makes them into little sketches unto themselves. He does the weird trick of making you want to watch the ads.
- Brad Colbow puts the ads in mind-video, but he keeps them short and tends to stick to stuff he actually uses/endorses.
The wrong way:
- A previously mentioned Let’s Game It Out featured a 2+ minute long ad that was a bored-sounding Josh reading boilerplate about the game Genshin Impact. It was literally unwatchable (I scrubbed through it).
- Every Corridor Crew sponsored segment uses the same guy, so I now associate him negatively with advertising. I see him and the urge to scrub goes through the roof. Also, his segments are too long, consistently fail at being amusing, and constantly push products of dubious value (enough with the VPN ads, people).
Anyway, back to the workout. I am still a bit puzzled over the weirdly slow pace of that fifth km, which brought my overall pace down, but what can you do? Machines don’t lie. Well, they totally do, sometimes, but I don’t think that’s happening here.
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)
