Back on the hamster machine

Today I was back on the treadmill for a three-miler. Nothing much to report here. We were at the gym late in the day, so we were the only ones there. That means that I got to watch Paula Dean doing a disco themed show. She wore a black wig through the part I was watching, which made her look young and kind of pretty. Weird. However, I was mostly distracted by the show on the other TVs, "Adventures in Babysitting". There's some great nostalgia right there.

I did my first mile at 6mph, then a half mile at 6.5mph and another half at 7mph before moving back down to 6mph for the last mile. That's all that can really be said about the run itself. It's hard to think of insightful stuff when you're not actually going anywhere or seeing anything.

Tomorrow I'll be doing my first 6 mile run of pre-training. I've plotted it out on walkjogrun.net. Click on that link if you want to see it. I'll probably run it backwards, since as plotted I'd have to go up a MASSIVE hill toward the end of the 4th mile. I don't think I'm ready for that quite yet. I may have to wing it a bit when I actually get to that downhill. It may be too steep to run down. We'll see. It should be both annoying and fun. Annoying because of all the freaking tourists and other people. Mostly tourists when I get down to the water and there will be plenty of them around 5th and Pine as well. The fun is all about the view. There's the waterfront, the touristy areas, the Space Needle. Either way, it should be a nice run.