I took 20 minutes to run/walk a mile!
My slowest ever but this is learning. I ran/walked the stairs in my building. Originally, I wanted to run 5 or 6k on a little difficult route but there was some school work that needed to be sorted and my day started late. I didn’t want to miss a run today and so decided to try doing stairs. Since I had no clue on how to get started, I did what the rest of the world does, googled it.
There is so much stuff out there that I gave up after a while and thought I would have a go at it for 20 minutes. So walked a bit then ran and walked and so on. I lack perspective in these kind of hard efforts so there is no way to say if this is how it is supposed to be. I guess the body will let me know in time. Maybe it was enough because I was sweating more than I have in recent times and my right leg was trembling after I stopped.
Including the terrace landing there are 7 storeys. I didn’t count the number of steps and finally lost count of the number of times I went up and down. Totally I ran up the entire thing twice and another two times I ran/walked up. The rest of the time I walked. It got a little easier towards the end but I stopped at 20 minutes and saw that I had completed a mile. Actually, it’s not too bad a way to fit in a run if I am short on time.
The slowest mile
28 Thursday Jan 2016
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oscardiamond said:
Well done. That’s hard exercise.
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So... said:
Thanks. It feels like it was hard now, the familiar soreness starting to creep up. But it was fun too in a way.
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bgddyjim said:
First, for your first stair interval, the fact that your leg was shaking and the effort had to get easier toward the end, you did it just right.
Next time try to hold the effort a little longer than last… And good luck, you might hurt after you sleep this one off. 😉
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So... said:
Ah I can feel it creeping up already. Tomorrow is definitely an off day. Maybe take the bike out. 🙂
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k8macdo said:
You’re beast!
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So... said:
Don’t know about that but my legs sure feel like they been used. 🙂
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rhannon said:
Way to stay at it. My workout yesterday was only 22 minutes but very hard. 10 minutes fast run, 2 minutes walking followed by 10 minutes fast run. Not something you want to do everyday but it’s good to mix it up. The stairs will help you conquer hills!
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So... said:
Yes! Definitely not something I am going to do everyday but a quick way to get my legs moving. 🙂
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