Today is Saturday. I did this walk yesterday. I'm getting low on my two mile challenge walks. This is one that I had actually decided not to do since it said it was over 900 feet in elevation. When I looked at the grid, it looked super scary with a big giant hill at the end. After I really looked at it and focused on the numbers, I realized this wasn't all that scary. The thing says it goes up to like 25% incline, but those are just spikes. When there are spikes like that, you never actually get up to that 25% unless you're going super super slow, but at a 2.5 MPH pace, I was guessing I wouldn't get to more than half of that spike.
Yesterday was a bit of a busy day and it snowed too. We had to drop off the recycling and my work computer and go to my chiropractor appointment and my husband's endochronology appointment. It was also garbage day so the garbage can needed to be out, but I actually got that out on Thursday night. I tried to put it out Wednesday night, but my husband realized what I was doing and he stopped me.
We drove about 25 mph on a road with a 65 mph limit. We were in a long string of cars behind the snow plows. We made it to 45 once the snow plows pulled into the weigh station. It was a rather scary drive since people were way too bunched up. Seriously people, just leave more distance. Being right on top of the car in front of you is not going to get you there any faster and it could actually slow things down if it causes a multi car pile up. It's just not a good plan. I am pretty much scared to death of this drive in the snow. I didn't want to move to this town due to this road being between us and the next biggest town where all of the shopping and doctors are. We did it though. I'm happy we both work from home so we don't have to take this road in snow very often. I would have canceled my chiropractor appointment, but hubby needed to go to his appointment.
Okay so the walk almost didn't happen. I had set the alarm to go off at 7:00 so I could walk before we went to the appointments. The alarm went off and I just didn't want to get up, so I didn't. After we got back, hubby had to work so I worked on catching up on blog posts, but didn't really have any desire to walk. After doing the posts, I realized that I really did need to get up there and get walking. I think I was more curious about if my back would hurt or not than anything else as far as motivation. I got up there and had limited choices. I had this one that I had said I wouldn't do. I had one that there's no way I can do and then three that were just sort of ho hum when I looked at them. One of which is all downhill. I picked this one to try to challenge myself a bit with some incline since I haven't had much incline lately.
The machine does not like me going fast on the decline and it doesn't like me staying at 6% decline for long periods of time. It will just die. I'm pretty sure it's because I'm over the weight limit of the machine and on the decline, it has to push me up the hill instead of gravity pulling me down. This thing had a huge 6% decline section, so I just set it to 3%. There were a couple parts where I left it go back to the 6% as it led into the incline sections so I didn't miss the transition to the incline. My shoulders were killing me since I lean into the top of the machine and have to use my arms to hold me up. I need to work on this, but for now this is what it is.
I started out at 2.5 MPH, but was planning on going down as I got to the hills, but then I realized the hills weren't very challenging so I just kept the 2.5 MPH. I was kinda surprised that I was able to do the last hill section at 2.5 MPH, but it was really only about five minutes of work at the end. I figured I could fight through 5 minutes if I knew it was over once that five minutes of work was over. I survived and nothing went numb on the walk. My right pelvis area was a bit tender which actually surprised me since it hasn't been bad over the last week. Maybe it was because I had just been to the chiro that morning. I'm not sure. There isn't much left to say and hopefully breakfast will be ready soon. There certainly was not over 900 feet of elevation, so I'm thinking the 900 feet is the low point of the walk to the high point, but since my treadmill only goes to negative 6% instead of the crazy low decline they had listed I guess I didn't have as much of an elevation gain as they would have though. I guess I need to look harder at some of these walks that I ignore because the elevation gain seems so scary.
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