I finally figured out my treadmill. Of course, the manual is nowhere to be found around here (neither are those arm rest thingies we had to take off to move it down into the basement, but that's another story). So, I looked it up online (I have the PaceMaster ProSelect model) and found out how to check if it is in Metric or not. I had been extremely hopeful that it was in English Units (mph) ever since my little Nike Plus told me I had run much farther on my treadmill than I had thought I had. In fact, yesterday I logged a 23 minute "3.0" (which I was telling myself was 3.0 miles...practically 5K...Man, I ROCK).
Turns out....
ya...
not so much.
I have now officially changed the treadmill over to English Units and my "3.0" yesterday was 3.0K. Three kilometres. In 23 minutes. Oh poop.
For 24 precious hours there I felt like a real runner. Like I could actually do this thing! And well!
Now I'm back at square one. Plodding along. Still not able to run more than 3.0 kilometers. Signed up for a 5K race in 50 days.
Oh. my. gawd. What have I done?
Bad Nike Plus, system. Bad!
you can totally do a 5k. I signed up for one and got stuck at week 4 of the couch to 5k thing.. for about a month.. I don't think I was ever UP TO 5km before I did the race.. but the butterflies push you through.. its such a sense of accomplishment.. it will be worth it.. no matter how you do.. you'll be surprised at how much you can ask your body to do!
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