OMG! When I woke up this morning, I really wanted to walk. I was pretty bummed that I had to work instead of walk. I got over it and did the responsible thing though. Then my husband called into work sick so I had a car and it meant I could go in early and leave earlier. I stayed until 3:15 and then headed home as fast as I could so I could get my walk in. I went with the one with the most elevation listed since I was home early.
As soon as I looked at the incline map, I knew I was going to regret the decision. I'm really wanting to push myself on elevation though since I can't push myself on speed since I still think it's the speed that is making the machine stop which really sucks since I bought this machine because it had the elevation range I wanted and could go up to 12MPH. Not that I ever thought I'd make it to 12MPH, but the other incline trainers I've seen have only gone to 4MPH. I thought eventually, I might be able to go faster than that on the flat. Anyway, I'm rambling again.
I knew that I had done this walk before so I knew that I could get through it. I just needed to convince myself to do it. This thing only has one killer hill, but it is one hell of a killer hill! I tried to guess how many minutes it was going to take to get through the hill. I kept telling myself that I could do it since I've done it before. I was so close to hitting the button to slow down, but I convinced myself it was better to power through it since the faster I walked, the faster I'd get over that hill. I nearly died. I nearly gave up, but I didn't. I kept going and I survived that hill. I've been coughing ever since I got off the treadmill, but I got through that damn hill!
I was so proud of myself for not going slower. I then sat down to do this blog post. I did my screen shot of this version of it and then I went to look to compare my previous attempt at this walk. I was devastated to learn that this was not my fastest attempt at this walk! I thought for sure I would have beaten my previous attempt since I didn't think I was doing all of the high elevation hills at 2MPH. Turns out, I didn't do this one when I did the first run through of the iFit 1 Mile Challenge. I'm not sure how I missed it. That's two walks that I missed originally. I did this one back in June of 2019 instead. This was after I had already done the 1.5 Mile Challenge and some other random walks. It was also before I put on a few extra pounds.
Okay, so I have the screen shot of today's walk and the one from June. I just wish it was easier to compare the two. I had to dig through all of my previous walks to find it. Maybe there's a way to find it easier, but that's how I found it. When I did this in June, I started out at 2.5MPH! I had to drop the speed to get through the crazy hill, but I went back up to 2.5MPH once it was over. Since I was going faster for parts of it, I did less elevation in June than I did today.
I'm still coughing even after taking the time to write this whole thing. I kinda want to die right now. My left hip was killing me and so was my right calf. My glutes were on fire by the time I was done. OMG. I just realized that I didn't even open Pokemon after I got off the treadmill. I have tons of eggs to hatch! First one is a Grimer, ugh. Second one is a Solrock. ugh. Third one is a Panpour. Well that makes me happier. Fourth one is Alolan Sandshrew. double ugh. Fifth one is another Grimer. ugh. Sixth one is a Tepig. Oh he's cute! seventh one is a Alolan Vulpix. triple ugh. Eight one is a another Panpour. hmmmmmm Looks like I can evolve one now! Woot Woot! I only have one egg left! I hope I get lots of them tomorrow so I can hatch more after work.
I need to stop rambling since it's time to deal with dinner.
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| Today's Walk |
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| June 2019 Walk |
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