Another goal?

When I left the house, I wasn't sure I was in the mood to do much at the gym, however it's not too bad when you get into the swing of it.


All the machines in the gym are set to kilometers by default and even if you change some of the settings to imperial, the course it tracks you on is either a standard 400m athletics track or a 5k circuit, so if you're wondering why the times/distances seem a little weird, they've been converted from metric). My first run on the treadmill today was a 0.5k warm up at 6kph (5 minutes) followed by a 2k run at 11kph (10 mins 54ish) followed by the treadmill's standard warmdown (which happened to be 3 mins on this occasion). Some problems do arise, however when the touchscreen on the gym equipment doesn't accept your commands straight away.

My mind likes to have something to do whilst I'm exercising, so I was trying to work out what distance I'd already covered so far this month (although as I was relying on my memory, I think I may have added in a couple of sessions I did between Christmas and New Year by mistake as I thought I was round about 60k!)

Still, if I'm on day 4 and I've already covered 26 miles, where should I aim to be at the end of the month. According to my stats at runkeeper.com, the most exercise I've logged in a month is 106.8 miles in September last year. If I say I want to beat that and, say, log 110 miles, that's an average of just over 3.5 miles a day. That should be OK for the next week, whilst I'm still off work, but will I manage to do that during the week once the kids are back at school and I'm back into my routine again?

After my initial run, I added in some time on the rowing machine as well since I can't remember the last time I tried that. (I vaguely remember it taking me over 10 minutes to row 2,000 metres at who knows what resistance, so I'm quite happy to go under 10 at resistance 5). I followed that up with 5k on the exercise bike (plus warm-up and cool down) and another 2.5k on the Cross trainer before returning to the treadmill for another kilometre-ish at the slightly slower speed of 9kph.

Onwards and upwards!

Running:
Distance - 1.76 miles & 0.99 miles = 2.75 miles
Time - 18m 58 & 12m 24 = 31m 22

Rowing Machine:
Distance - 1.24 miles
Time - 9m 42

Exercise Bike:
Distance - 3.88 miles
Time - 15m 09

Cross trainer (Elliptical):
Distance - 1.57 miles
Time - 16m 24

Total today:
Distance - 9.44 miles
Time - 1h 12m 37

Janathon:
Total Distance - 26.74 miles
Total Time - 5h 22m 39
Miles remaining - 83.66

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