AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! We are down to only three Mistress Sadies! They did some equipment changes at my Y, leaving only (3) three Sadies on premise. What would I do without my Sadie?
But on a positive note… I had committed to making November Cardio month and concentrating on that. I also made one of my goals to get 5 miles on Sadie?
We-l-l-l-l… tonight Mistress Sadie was hard on the old man. She demanded a lot out of me… but I rose to the occasion. Tonight we went all the way again and I lasted a full five minutes at her maximum effort (level 20),
And if that was not enough, tonight …..drum roll please…….
5.02 miles in 65 minutes baby! (yes that’s 13 min miles) Pretty good for a fat guy who didn’t like to exercise I’d say. Now, I know what you are thinking… but that’s on a piece of equipment so that’s not really running. I’ll grant you that it’s not the same dynamic as running outdoors on the road or on a track but Sadie has her own dynamics that require a different set of muscles and training. A mile on Sadie is still a mile, and 65 minutes at multiple settings, up to and including the max resistance, is nothing to sneeze at. (a-n-d… it was a 1062 calorie burn on Sadie as well.)
I’ll take the trade off, my joints not taking the pounding on the road for the challenge of the open strider.
Oh and to top things off, I tried out one of the new treadmills. I walked an additional .98 miles in 20 minutes playing around with the inclines and the TV channels. (another 200+ calories for that) That’s a total of 6 miles tonight. That’s almost a 10k. Wooop-Wooop!
All in all, I’d say it was a bang up start to my 4 day weekend. 🙂
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