No Treadmill Wednesday

Thursday, January 12, 2012 · Mike Davis

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

As I said yesterday, I would be moving Treadmill Wednesday this week as I would be running with a partner (Justin) today. Because we were kind of fast yesterday, I told Justin that I had to take it easy and he agreed. However… Justin asked if it would be okay if another person joined us. There goes my easy pace!

Backing up a bit, I was up early this morning so that I could get some strength training in as I’m trying to balance getting in miles while keeping up with my strength training workouts. I also really enjoy working out other parts of my body besides my legs. I have a great setup in my basement and enjoy rolling out of bed, throwing on my workout clothes, grabbing some protein, coffee and going to my chilly basement. Within minutes the chills gone and I’m enjoying the routine of sculpting my abs. Not on the outside! Twenty five minute workout done, off to work.

After some effort, Justin his friend and I were off and running. As I mentioned, I need some new running shoes, so I explained to my partners that my shins were killing me and I really needed to take it easy. No problem both of them responded. Well that worked at times, but our third wheel seemed to keep speeding up and I would pull him back to a compromise pace (not the pace I should have been at). So the run pretty much went along like that, third wheel speeds up, Mike slows us down. The weather was perfect and the conversation was enjoyable, so the run was great!

Tomorrow is going to be Wednesday Treadmill day on Thursday and looking at the weather, it may be a good day to do that. Though I believe there may be a Coastal Pub run tomorrow night, so I may run some on the deadmill and then the pub run. The pub runs can be fun and I haven’t been on one in a while.

Be well!

mike