Love-Hate

I could use the old line-I have a love-hate relationship with my dreadmill, I love to hate it. And it is true but cliche.

I have to begrudingly admit, though, the darn thing has a place in my running life. If I am to undertake that which should not be named, the only chance I have is to use that darn thing somedays.

My schedule was this today--up at 7:00 with the kids, leave by 8:00 to get kid #1 to school by 8:30. Sitter comes at 10:00, so I have 90 minutes to: pick up some groceries, drive home (20+ minutes), get a run in & be ready to leave. If I didn't have the grocery stop, I could run outside with kid #2 but it is kinda cold and the extra time driving to a suitable trailhead & loading & unloading everything would make it impossible to get groceries & do the baby jogger thing.

So I settled for some millwork. Knowing I didn't have much time, I did a quick warm-up, a half mile hard, recovered and another quarter hardish. Then I was done. While it didn't do much for my soul, it should help my cardio a bit.

Stats:
1.50 miles in 11:46 (7:51 pace, 173 bpm)
Splits (quarter mile splits, pace listed):
(10:19)
(8:11)
(6:17)
(6:15) 7:45 mile
(9:09)
(6:48)