Thursday's Intervals

Tonight I ran intervals on the treadmill at the gym. It went pretty well, my fastest interval was close to 8 MPH, I'm not sure how long I held that speed, I had worked up to that speed by increasing the speed every 30 seconds by about a half mile per hour. I probably held the speed for about one minute, I could hardly breath at that rate.

Toward the end I held one interval at 6.1 miles per hour for about ten minutes. Given a couple more weeks and I should start see some real results. :-) And all this with out a nose bleed.

I was hoping to go to spinning class last night but I was worried about my nose so I took the day off.

I did have one problem tonight, for some reason, I could not get the enter button on my Garmin to work. After fiddling with it for a little I pressed start and it started recording. Then about 10 minutes into the run I noticed that the unit was saying that no satellites were available and it ask if I was running indoors. So I pressed enter and it worked. It seemed to work fine after that. I hope this is not a sign of things to come. I sure like my Garmin.

Weekly Roundup

I have not exercised as much as I would have liked this past week. Most of my time was spent getting ready to have the new carpet installed. I worked 40 hours in the first four days of last week, then took Friday off to be here when the workers were here. Now I have been moving things back to their permanent locations--and rearranging things a bit, to get better use from some of the rooms.

I signed up last Saturday with Pure Gym because the weather for the next week looked bad, and I did not want to run in the freezing rain. However, it took about a week to get everything in order. Since I have had high blood pressure and a stroke, they needed a release from my doctor. So I provided them with my doctor's fax number and waited for results. I tried to go the the gym on Tuesday but they would not let me work out because the release had not arrived. Today, Sunday, I stopped by and they let me in--thank goodness!

Here is my week's summary: