Today is Saturday. I took two days off after doing the iFit Easter Island Walking Tour. I couldn't decide what to do next. I was toying with the 1.5 miles, the 50 state parades, 2 miles, The Grand Canyon and the Scottish Highland Series. I've already done the 1.5 miles so I wasn't really wanting to redo them and 31 days felt like a big commitment. The 50 state parades was an even bigger commitment and some of them were over 3 miles so I wasn't sure how that would go. I wasn't in the mood to commit to 2 miles every night after work. I kind of like having the option to pick a shorter one if I'm in a blah mood when I get home. The Grand Canyon just seemed too scary, so I went with the Scottish Highland Series. The elevation seemed super scary, but it looked like he kept the speed down for the high parts and the walks were short so I thought I could handle this. Below is a screen shot of the preview of the workout. When I looked at it, I guess I didn't quite realize how long that high elevation section in the middle would be!
I started out the walk okay. It started off at 8% incline I think. That was fun. Not. Then it went up a little and down a little. I was doing okay. I was out of breath and questioning if I would be able to do this whole thing. So then the thing went up to 30% for that first super high section. Once we went down, it only went down to 20%. My heart rate was through the roof. I pretty much wanted to die. I was seriously concerned if I would be able to hold on long enough. I was also realizing that the first section before that hill took about 8 minutes which meant I was going to be on that 20% to 30% section for at least that long. I let my negative side take over and convince myself that I just was never going to get through this. I actually said out loud that I couldn't do it. My husband told me I could, but I hit the 0% incline button and let it go all the way down. I wanted to catch my breath before the next hill. I was seriously concerned that I wasn't going to be able to hold on to the bars and I would fall off the back of the machine and hit the wall.
Once I got down to 0%, I regretting hitting the button. I felt like a failure. I was very disappointed in myself. After I had finally caught my breath, I hit the button to follow the trainer. This should have started my incline going up to get to where he was in the walk, but it didn't. I kept going and thought maybe at the next hill it would go up, but it didn't. I decided to just listen to him and do my own thing. I increased the speed, but nothing happened. The time elapsed wasn't changing. I messed around for a bit and found a place where you can make the video the full screen without having all of the stats. Nothing was working as far as the workout controls though. I couldn't get the machine to pause the workout. I finally got the treadmill stopped by hitting the stop button on the machine instead of the tablet, but the video kept playing. I pulled the safety key and stepped off the machine. I rebooted and then came over here to start this post.
I'm undecided how I feel about this whole series now. It was listed as a level 3. I did have some serious questions on if I'd be able to do it. I think I'm going to try day 2 tomorrow and see if I survive that. This one is 200+ feet more in elevation than the others, but some of the others are shorter distance so that elevation is in a more condensed area. We shall see what happens.
I hatched an eevee in Pokemon Go. Why are Eevees still in eggs! That's so annoying.
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