So, I was talking to someone who’s doing a charity run in a couple of weeks and she was all “Jesus, 5km, I’m going to die”. I was all “pah, 5km? easy~” so today I decided to test my theory and go running in the actual outside. Turns out it’s not as easy as they make it seem on the telly.
I covered around 4.5km in a little under 30 minutes (I guess if I’m serious about this I should get a pedometer or something), which means I went about the same 9km/hr pace I do on the treadmill… only this hurts a lot more.
Next time I’ll try and go a full 5km and see if I fall over before I get home.
Average walking pace is about 6kph – and any idiot can walk for an hour. A gentle jog for 30mins shouldn’t be that much of a killer.
Come running with me some time, we shall see :p
Running sucks, without a place to be going. You move too slowly and the scenery gets boring! It’s all about biking, or rowing (only one of which I actually do…)
Then we shall run to the pizza place~
I’m game. But not running back, the pizza is too precious…
Fine, so we run to the pizza place and then get a taxi back?
This may be the worst work-out anyone ever had…
Also, how come you’re commenting on mai blog, but not on IM or something?
I’m on IM, you just can’t see me. Wooooooooooo…
have you tried running on an incline on the treadmill? I hear two percent mimics how hard it is to run outdoors. 5km is easy though dude. Maybe you have a cold?
I /always/ use the treadmill at an incline.
Previously I would rock it at 3 for 40 mins straight, now I set it to random, wherein it varies between 1.5 and 7.5 for 20 mins before I go do another machine for variety’s sake.
Despite this, running outside is for some reason very difficult for me.