Category Archives: treadmill

Oh Treadmill My Treadmill

02mi, 06mi, 08mi, travel, treadmill

Start time: 2/16/12, 6:30am
Location: LAX Mariott Treadmill
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 8:57min/mile
Total Miles For February: 64 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 148 miles
Current Shoes: 181 miles

Start time: 2/18/12, 7:30am
Location: LAX Mariott Treadmill
Distance: 6 miles & 2 miles
Average pace: 8:42min/mile & 7:38min/mile (8:26 overall)
Total Miles For February: 72 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 156 miles
Current Shoes: 189 miles

Oops, time to catch up… was in LA for a convention for the second half of last week, so ended up using the hotel treadmill twice. For Saturday’s run the plan was 8 miles, but I was getting bored with the treadmill and when I hit 6 miles (since the treadmill automatically shuts down at an hour) I figured, “Oh, good enough” and started the cooldown function. Then after about three minutes I thought, “Wait, I should really do the last two miles.” So I turned it off, ran two more, and called it a day. I never really trust a treadmill’s readings, but I was definitely working on my pace for that 8-miler.

Devilish Runs (or, Treadmill 666)

06mi, travel, treadmill

Start time: 2/18/11, 2/18/11, 2/18/11, 7:30am
Location: LAX Marriott treadmill
Distance: 6 miles each
Average pace: 9:09, 8:50, and 8:55min/mile
Total Miles For February: 37 miles
Total Miles For 2011: 88 miles

The plan was, initially, to hit a long run out on Venice Beach up to Santa Monica on Friday, for 10-12 miles or so. I got to do that last year and it was a real pleasure from start to finish, with the change of scenery and all. Problem was, Los Angeles weather was threatening serious amounts of rain on Friday and Saturday. Hmph.

So, I went with a change of plans and knocked out three 6-milers on the hotel treadmill over the course of Friday through Sunday. Not quite the same, but at least I got the miles in. (And of course, the promised rain on Friday didn’t ever erupt as promised, although all Friday morning it looked like at any second it was going to drop. I like to think that had I actually gone out there, at my turn-around point it would’ve in fact poured.)

Despite my general hate for the treadmill, the runs were all right. Was feeling a little stiff for most of Saturday, but happily it was gone on Sunday, despite that last one being done on minimal sleep and with a bit of drinking the night before. (During Sunday’s mile 4 was also where I accidentally hit the “stop” button on the treadmill and had to hurriedly restart it, oops.) Not quite the runs I’d hoped for, but I consider three days of treadmill while on vacation to be a major victory.

Fri: 9:35, 9:30, 9:21, 9:13, 8:57, 8:17
Sat: 9:12, 9:05, 8:56, 8:48, 8:42, 8:15
Sun: 9:22, 9:22, 9:04, 9:00, 8:33, 8:08

I still hate treadmills

0, 03mi, treadmill

Start time: 7/15/10, 6:00pm
Location: Spring Hill Rec Center
Distance: 3 miles
Average pace: 9:08min/mile
Total Miles For July: 17 miles
Total Miles For 2010: 349 miles

You think I’d have remembered from the last time I used the Spring Hill Rec Center treadmills about the utter lack of air circulation in that room and how it makes me overheat to the point that I have to stop… but no. That was horrible. Barely finished three of a planned five miles before quitting in disgust.

Hotel treadmill redux

0, 05mi, travel, treadmill

Start time: 2/28/10, 1:30pm
Location: LAX Marriott Treadmill
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 8:53min/mile
Total Miles For February: 51 miles
Total Miles For 2010: 119 miles

Hey, guess what happens when you actually start running regularly again? It gets slightly easier. Funny thing, that. About halfway through the run I realized it was feeling a little too easy and I started turning the pace up a bit. It was nice for everything to still be comfortable. Now if I can just keep my nose to the grindstone, maybe… just maybe…?

Hotel treadmill

0, 05mi, travel, treadmill

Start time: 2/25/10, 7:00am
Location: LAX Marriott Treadmill
Distance: 5 miles
Average pace: 9:05min/mile
Total Miles For February: 36 miles
Total Miles For 2010: 104 miles

Just some running on the hotel treadmill. I’m not a big fan of the treadmill in general and I started off slow and then ramped it up a bit. Still not terribly fast, but after missing Tuesday’s run due to work and needing to pack, I won’t deny that I was feeling a little rusty.

Wow do I hate treadmills

0, 04mi, treadmill

Start time: 10/15/09, 2:30pm
Location: Spring Hill Rec Center
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:41min/mile
Total Miles For October: 58 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 675 miles

It’s a gloomy rainy day, and after getting little sleep last night thanks to what I have charitably decided was a slowly dying car (I like to think someone did not lay out their horn, deliberately, for a solid two minutes at 1am, 2:30am, and 4am) I didn’t make it to the gym this morning. So I decided I’d go in the afternoon to Spring Hill (where I normally swim) and run on a treadmill there. Ugh. Hated every minute of it. There was no air circulation so I felt really badly overheated from start to finish, and some crazy lady decided that she needed to turn ALL the televisions to Fox News. Including ones right next to other ones on Fox News. Great, six big screen tvs all showing a run-away balloon soaring through the air. I was going to run five miles but after four I felt like such crap I stopped. Death to the treadmill.

Hotel Treadmill, yay

0, 07mi, travel, treadmill

Start time: 2/14/09, 9:00am
Location: LAX Marriott
Distance: 7 miles
Average pace: 9:09min/mile
Total Miles For February: 36 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 81 miles

Yay for a small mileage Saturday! I ended up not running on Thursday due to being at Disneyland all day (and walking all over it), but it all worked out well… or rather, as well as it can despite being on a treadmill while it was cold and drizzly outside. Only minor inconvenience I had was when the treadmill hit 60 minutes and kept trying to go into “cool down mode.” I was so close to the end I just kept pushing the speed back up, which worked as well as it could. I’d felt a little bleah on Thursday and Friday, but this really kicked me back into high gear.

Preparation for the Walks to Come

0, 08mi, treadmill

Start time: 1/17/09, 12:30pm
Location: Thomas Circle Sports Club
Distance: 4 miles & 4 miles
Average pace: 10:19min/mile & 10:56min/mile
Total Miles For January: 25 miles

Ugh. Maybe I’m allergic to treadmills, now? It would explain my continual crappy performance on them, versus elsewhere. Hopefully that’s it. I was supposed to hit 8 miles on Saturday, but it was rather frigid out and Charlie offered up his gym as a location instead. Not happy at all with how I did, though. Not really sure what’s up with it, either. Hmph.

(Clearly I was so non-enamored that I then forgot to record them until now. I didn’t do my Tuesday run this week, but since I walked about 7.25 miles very briskly, plus another 5 on Sunday, I don’t feel at all bad about doing so. My legs were definitely moving!)

Huffing and puffing

0, 06mi, treadmill

Start time: 1/11/09, 4:00pm
Location: Basement of Charlie’s condo
Distance: 3 miles & 3 miles
Average pace: 9:42min/mile & 9:58min/mile
Total Miles For January: 13 miles

Two things I really dislike about winter running are the cold, and the treadmill. It’s honestly a wonder I get any running done at all, really. I decided today’s wind was the bigger enemy, doubly so since I had a grumbly stomach yesterday so I didn’t want to be several miles out and then hit an, “I don’t feel good” moment. So, I went over to Charlie’s and ran two sets on his treadmill with a couple minutes off between them. That last bit felt like some real failure; I am bad when it comes to bouncing back from extended time off and expect to be immediately back up to speed. Nope. I had to take that second set a tiny bit slower, unfortunately, but after a mile or so I picked the pace back up so it ended up not being as bad as it could’ve been.

Sooner or later it’ll all be back up to full speed, but until then, I’m mister grumbly.