Cold!

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It's 6 (-14 C) out there. I don't have a specific temperature below which I won't run outside but I have determined that it's too cold to run outside. It's a treadmill run for me today.

The 1.5 hour spinning session went pretty well last night. A disappointment is that my cheap heart rate monitor seems to be completely broken. The readings jumped all over the place despite fairly constant work load (tension on the wheel and rpms). So either the monitor or my heart was disfunctioning. Since many of the readings were in the low 30s and a quick non-scientific check of the blood flow through my neck revealed pulsations quite a bit faster than 30 bpm I determined that it was the timex, and not my heart, that was disfunctional. I suppose that the monitor is more easily replaced than the heart, so this is actually good news.

I'm going to pack my bag for 2 workouts today. The goal: 30 minutes on the treadmill in the morning and 30 minutes on the treadmill in the evening. This followed by moderate consumption of food and drink.

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I had a 10K day! Split almost evenly between my morning and evening workouts: 10K in 56:55. After a gentle but fairly long warm-up (for each of the two pieces) my HR (my strap works and the treadmill picks up my HR and displays it, the watch part of my HR monitor remains worthless) was in the high end aerobic zone despite my pedestrian pace. I am unfit. I will fix this.