I’m so excited that I made it to my first taper week. Surprisingly, I’m not as tired or burnt out from running as I expected to be. While training for my first half marathon I got so bored of running the same types of runs over and over. I longed for an iFit treadmill workout with random inclines and intervals. However, those runs didn’t meet my distance requirements in my training plan at the time.…
In the Strength and Intervals cycle of my training program I alternate each Monday between a tempo run and intervals. Last week I was recovering from my half marathon so I did not run a tempo run. Rather, the race counted as a tempo run because of how I ran that race. However, today I was back on track and that meant interval training. Interval training on the treadmill It’s best if you can run…
I needed a reprieve from the cold mornings so I set up my short, three mile conversational pace run for the treadmill. To make it more interesting I mapped out three miles from my upcoming half marathon tune-up race in Laughlin, Nevada. iFit Google mapping feature One of the features I love about my treadmill is the ability to map out runs. Since my treadmill inclines and declines with the terrain, I can get a…