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July 18, 2005
So That's Why My Workouts Are So Hard...
I began doing figure eights on the indoor basketball courts at the gym yesterday. I figured ten was a good number to start with, and did my ten plus the usual bike and stairmaster and weights and track running. I felt good but tired when I was done. And the last set of 5 laps on the track was really hard.
Today was cardio, so I just did bike, stairmaster (I managed a full 30 minutes at higher settings than normal), figure eights and laps (and the various sideways exercises, which are not as hard as I think they're supposed to be). Anyhow, I was really tired, as was my knee by the time I'd done my ten or so figure eights, but I hit the track anyway. I decided to increase my number of laps run by one per set, so I now run roughly 1/2 mile at a time, with 1/3 mile of walking in between. Anyway, that last half mile was a bugger, just like yesterday. So when I got home, I decided to figure out just how much ground I was actually covering on the basketball court. I guessed it was probably not even a quarter mile and that I was just a wimp. Um. Not exactly.
The courts at the rec center are the standard size. Which means that they are 94' x 50'. That being the case, the diagonal is about 106'. If I take 2 diagonals per figure 8 and run outside the court at the ends, my figure eights are roughly 312' each. Which means that I'm running 3120' or so with ten. Which is almost 6/10 of a mile. So instead of running slightly more than a mile each of the last two days, I've been running more than a mile and a half. Not including the traveling I do when I'm doing all of my sideways stuff. I am suddenly very clear on why my legs are so tired and that last 1/2 mile plus is so very hard to run.
Posted by sally at July 18, 2005 08:25 PM
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