10-20-30

Saturday's running workout was a 10-20-30 on the treadmill. I got up got ready had 1 GU Energy Gel pack, took some GU Chomps (haven't had the chomps before), water, ipod and headed downstairs to the gym. I made sure to warm up and stretch before jumping on the treadmill. Don't want to make the same mistake as last time and think me running is the warm up and end up with knee and back pains.

10min (incline 10) it seemed like the longest 10 minutes of my life ever!!! I wont pretend like it was easy because it wasn't those 10 minutes killed me! I think my pace was 4.5 or 4.7 not sure, I was huffing and puffing (note to self: make sure to always have inhaler) I have asthma and I usually don't feel it much when I run flat but boy did this incline have me struggle.
20min (incline 5) dropping incline helped but i still felt out of breath I think my pace here was maybe 5 or 5.2 about 10 min into the 20 i had 2 of the Chomps and didn't feel it do much to me. But I wasn't feeling my legs being tired I mainly felt my chest being tired.
30min (incline 0) pop in 2 more Chomps ooooooooooooh yea! Now I'm running flat I feel the 2 Chomps from before kick in I'm feeling good I'm running at 6. My chest isn't hurting I'm not huffing or puffing! Now this is what I like here...running flat no incline although I much rather be running outside than on this treadmill. But I really am feeling my self and boost up the speed to 6.5 and there is 15 seconds left before I'm done and I'm trying to see the actual distance I accidentally hit STOP so I'm going to guess and say it was about 5.75 not so bad considering half of the time was at incline.

Snap kicks and a slow mile jog to cool down. The snap kicks didn't feel so good. I thought my legs were good until I got off the treadmill, then they kind of shook and the snap kicks...let's say I felt my legs were really going to "snap" The mile cool down I probably could of just power walked it the slow pace felt like I was walking.

My total workout was 1:27  with the warm up and cool down oh and can't forget the stretching before and after (a must). I wasn't as hungry as I was last week with my running workout outdoors, but I did feel as dehydrated. I did notice on the treadmill my feet slide to the front in my shoes so my toe hits the front of the shoe (again from previous posts I'm not wearing the right shoes) and I run much slower on the treadmill than I do outdoors. Or that's the way it feels. From the Energy Gel packs as of right now I think I like Cliff better over the GU but I'm going to try others and give them all a 2nd try before I decide on what I will have on the marathon.

GU Chomps and GU Energy Gel

To Do List:
Create Play List
Camel Pack (still not sure if i will use this on my marathon but I need to test it out)