Can you swear on your blog? Probably not. Anyway, my tempo run tonight sucked. It was terrible. The plan was to do 2 miles easy, 3 miles at 9:18 and then 1 mile easy. The windchill was -4 degrees when I left work (for my second-to-last day!), so I dutifully hopped on the treadmill. The 2 mile warm-up was fine, but the actual tempo part was tough. I took a brief walk break halfway into the tempo, and thought that I could for sure eek out the last 2.5 miles of the total run. But I tripped once and that kind of freaked me out. I think I just lost my balance or something; maybe I zoned out too much? I told myself to pay attention, and kept running. But then, with about .11 miles left of the tempo portion, I lost my balance again and almost went flying off the treadmill. That freaked me out, so I just walked the last bit of mileage to get to 5 miles. I was so dizzy, I didn’t think that I could run my cool-down mile. So, I threw in the towel.
It took me awhile to recover back in my apartment, too. I drank some hippie sports drink and tried to cool my body down. I think I just got too hot on the treadmill. There’s a couple of wall-mounted fans in the workout room, but none of them hit the treadmill that I like. I don’t know; now it just sounds like I’m making excuses. But it was a crappy run, and I felt completely wiped out afterwards. I was planning on running 10 miles on the ‘mill this weekend, but now I’m absolutely horrified at that thought. Sunday morning is supposed to be warmer than Saturday morning this weekend; I’m bundling up, and hitting the trails. I need to get some fresh air.
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