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When I paid my rent this month they told me that the new treadmill would arrive next Wednesday.
I'd been walking outside during the nice weather we had last week. Tuesday was a really nice day, but it was payday and I had to run errands so I didn't have time to walk while it was light. So I headed to the exercise center figuring I'd use the stationary bike one last time before we got our treadmill.
The room was dark. The power was out. The old treadmill was plugged in, so I knew someone had tried to use it. Even after three months, not everyone had yet figured out that it was broken and would throw the circuit breaker if you plugged it in and turned it on. :/ You'd think they would have put up a sign, or taped up the extension cord, or just cut it off, or something.
Anyway I've used the new treadmill twice now. It's different, much nicer in many ways of course. But the old treadmill I could turn up to 4-5 mph and it was a comfortable walking pace. The new treadmill, 3 mph is a very fast walking pace. I don't really know how fast I'm actually walking, I guess.
The old treadmill had a graph bar that would advance every 8 1/2 minutes that showed how much exercise you'd accomplished. After 17 minutes you were in the "weight loss" range. Eventually you'd reach a "cardio-vascular" range. I got used to timing my workout by this thing, so that 34 minutes (4 bars) was my absolute minimum workout, and if I went further it'd be in increments of 8.5 minutes usually.
The new treadmill doesn't have anything like that. Instead it has a little circle of lights that goes around as you walk, as if you're walking around a track. It's a quarter-mile, and when you complete one it tells you what lap you're on. It also calculates your pace based on how long it will take you to walk a mile. So now, my workouts are more based on how far I've walked, because I still kind of use what the treadmill does to figure out how long I've been walking and how much further I want to go. I did 2 miles last night -- 1 at 3 mph, 1 at 2.5, 44 minutes total.
At least I know the time is accurate. ^_^
I'd been walking outside during the nice weather we had last week. Tuesday was a really nice day, but it was payday and I had to run errands so I didn't have time to walk while it was light. So I headed to the exercise center figuring I'd use the stationary bike one last time before we got our treadmill.
The room was dark. The power was out. The old treadmill was plugged in, so I knew someone had tried to use it. Even after three months, not everyone had yet figured out that it was broken and would throw the circuit breaker if you plugged it in and turned it on. :/ You'd think they would have put up a sign, or taped up the extension cord, or just cut it off, or something.
Anyway I've used the new treadmill twice now. It's different, much nicer in many ways of course. But the old treadmill I could turn up to 4-5 mph and it was a comfortable walking pace. The new treadmill, 3 mph is a very fast walking pace. I don't really know how fast I'm actually walking, I guess.
The old treadmill had a graph bar that would advance every 8 1/2 minutes that showed how much exercise you'd accomplished. After 17 minutes you were in the "weight loss" range. Eventually you'd reach a "cardio-vascular" range. I got used to timing my workout by this thing, so that 34 minutes (4 bars) was my absolute minimum workout, and if I went further it'd be in increments of 8.5 minutes usually.
The new treadmill doesn't have anything like that. Instead it has a little circle of lights that goes around as you walk, as if you're walking around a track. It's a quarter-mile, and when you complete one it tells you what lap you're on. It also calculates your pace based on how long it will take you to walk a mile. So now, my workouts are more based on how far I've walked, because I still kind of use what the treadmill does to figure out how long I've been walking and how much further I want to go. I did 2 miles last night -- 1 at 3 mph, 1 at 2.5, 44 minutes total.
At least I know the time is accurate. ^_^