...at least for me.

 

Today marked my triumphant retun to a ten minute mile- someting I haven't been able to run  in about six months. My "winter hibernation" is officially over!

 

I haven't been to the gym in weeks- since my usual (bad influence) lunch buddy wasn't available, I decided to hit the gym during my lunch hour.  A minute or two into my treadmill warm-up, This is How I disapear (My Chemical Romance) came on, and I started mashing the "speed up" button.  the next song that my phone shuffled up for me was Everlong (Foo Fighters), which starts off relatively slow (which was gave me a second to catch my breath and grab a sip of water), but quickly ramps up and ends incredibly high (which led to more speed-up-button-mashing).   When I run treadmill, I usually cover the time/distance/heart rate thingee with my towel, so that I don't get caught up counting seconds- I pulled away my towel, and was shocked to see 1.04 miles in 9:43... and that I had been running over 8 miles/hour for the last two minutes!

 

It always suprises me how much easier it is for me to accomplish some things, in spite of paying absolutely no attention to what i'm doing...