Oh, the weather has been so disagreeable since Saturday! Well, since before Saturday, actually, but at least we had that one day of respite. At about 2 or 3am last night I woke up thinking the roof was going to get ripped off. Luckily, it didn't, but it was blowing a gale and pouring with rain, and it didn't let up at all. And it's been COLD. It's like the whole town has become a giant evaporative air conditioner, with the wind blowing over all that standing water.
The point? I still exercised, when hibernating seemed like the wiser option. And as always, I am so glad I did!
I decided to run on the treadmill for an hour. 5km and 30 minutes just felt like I was going too easy on myself too often. The Bunbury Fun Run isn't far away, and I'd like to do the 10km run in an hour. And after the recovery I required following a two hour ride, I realised I was going to need to increase my stamina by a lot to complete the Blackwood and still be able to walk and talk through to the end of it.
So, I ran a total of 10km in 62:48, and that included a very long warm up (because it was coooolllddd! brr! and I needed the extra time to loosen up properly). I ran a pretty good 5km/30minutes and then took a short walk break and then really stepped on the gas. Even after 45 minutes, I ran at 12km/hr, and then up to 12.6km/hr for a whole minute, the fastest I have ever run (Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue did it for me!!) and ran at 11km/hr most of the time.
Woohoo! Wicked awesome and excellent!
And it was so good that I got that workout in, because even though I taught Pump Circuit, I had three new people, so was teaching, not Pumping, and then we didn't get enough people to run a Balance class. Sad, but totally understandable. It's hard to leave a warm house on a day, let alone a night, like this, and many people are sick.
The new best thing about exercise: It keeps you warm!
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