Thanks to storm Ciara my long outdoor run has gone out the window this morning.
Determined to cover at least 14 miles this week as next week I’ll need to drop down for my half marathon at Blackpool out came the gym card, I pad loaded up with episodes of the stranger, tailwind prepared and off went at just gone 8am after my breakfast of porridge to get me going.
Since selling my treadmil which was bought for these times after not getting on with it and it collecting dust I’d not ran on a treadmil. I recall the last time I got on mine I struggled to cover 3k so was not looking forward to today’s milage.
I set up my treadmill upon arrival Ipad in place, 2 water bottles filled with tailwind and my towel.
I’d recently bought tailwind after all the reviews I’d read having only used it on shorter runs till today I was interested to see how it would fuel me.
I’d already decided it wasn’t about time today it was about getting the millage in so I set off with an incline of 1 and up to 6.5 speed which felt comfortable and away I went watching my netfliks.
I was surprised how I soon got into a comfortable pace and how watching the series helped to take my eyes away from clock watching and before I knew it I was starting on my second episode feeling very comfortable.
As I hit around the 1 hour mark the treadmill started to shut down on me, little did I know apparently they have a cut off time for using on manual. After pressing some buttons and not getting no where I moved onto the next treadmil at the side of me and began again using same pace and incline.
After 2 hours in the treadmil began shutting down on me again. I looked around but all the treadmills had filled up, in fact the gym had filled up around me without evening realising it I’d been that engrossed watching The Stranger.
It was at this point I realised if you step off onto the sides you can re set it to restart so no tread mil hopping required 🤣🤣.
Still feeling strong I continued along the way and was surprised to see over 13 miles gone when I glanced at my watch. My downloads finished at 14 and half miles determined I still felt like I had more to give I carried on till 15 miles, although I could have continued I’m also not daft and 15 miles was the longest I’d ran and a mile longer than what was on my plan I was well happy.
Tailwind had also done its job of keeping me hydrated and fueled for those 15 miles. So definetly going to be using moving forward.
My plan for the day was complete time for lunch of pasta and chicken followed by a bath woth epsom salts.
