Gym Week: Day 3

I decided to do something different today and give the tread mill a try.  I am always really hesitant to go on the tread mill.  I had a fear as a young adult that I would fall off.  So one day in the Ithaca College gym I decided to face my fear and try the tread mill... and I fell off.  So its really hard for me to make myself get on that thing, even though I know it will give me a really good workout.  Despite my tread mill paranoia, I did go on today and had a GREAT workout.  

Thanks to everyone's great advice form my last post, I had some ideas on how to get my heart rate up and keep my feet feeling better in the process.  I did some interval training, and it was AWESOME.  I didn't really have a plan at first, I just thought I would alternate running and walking as it seemed appropriate.  I kept track of what I did and I even recorded my heart rate.  This is how it went down:

WALKED at 2.8 MPH for 5 minutes
RAN at 4.5 MPH for 15 minutes
WALKED at 3.5 MPH for 5 minutes
RAN at 5 MPH for 5 minutes
WALKED at 3.5 MPH for 5 minutes

It seemed that at the peak of my running my heart rate was around 165, if the machine was accurate that is, and when I was cooled down and walking it was about 128.  I really have no idea if that is healthy or not, but it made me feel good to see my heart rate increase and then stay elevated while running. 

 
I'm looking forward to trying to treadmill again tomorrow, but probably not as much as these guys. ;-)