The goal of this week has always been to be as close to 100% as I can be for Sunday's long run. In order to do it, I decided that most of my training this week would be done on the elliptical to help save the joints some wear and tear. As always, I headed right over to the YMCA when I got out from work. Thankfully, I got over there a little bit before rush hour and was able to get on my normal elliptical without any issues or waiting. The elliptical workout started out a little bit slower than I wanted. For some reason it was a little bit difficult to get the legs working during the first 2-3 minutes, but after that I got into a good groove.
The workout actually went great, much better than the last time I had hopped on the elliptical and had to hop off after 7 minutes due to pure boredom. For some reason, I was totally tuned into the workout today. Without even a sense of boredom, 30 minutes had rolled by. My pace was good as I was doing ~ 10 min / mile in elliptical distance (which equates to an average of 144 rpm). I through in a few "hills", which always consists of increasing the resistance by 1 each minute for 5 minutes. The legs, particularly the hamstrings / gluts, definitely get a work out when the resistance gets cranked up to 13.
The next thing I new, I had ripped out 60 minutes (~6 miles) worth of elliptical. Honestly, out of all the elliptical workouts I have done, this one seemed to go by the fastest. As always, I ran into a couple of points where my toes kind of go numb from putting most of weight leaning forward but that feeling always comes and goes. Although it wasn't a run, it was a good hour workout.
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