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  • MrMayhem200@alien.topBtoRunningMiscellaneous Monday Chit Chat
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    11 months ago

    Brand new here. I have no idea how commonplace what I’m about to say is, but I decided to go for a walk on my treadmill before work. I decided to start off at a jog and set my treadmill to 5 mph (I assume that’s how it’s tracked since it’s just numbers 1-10) and managed to keep that pace for 20 straight minutes, walked for 5 and then set it back to 5 mph for the remaining 5 minutes of the 30 total that I planned, I tracked the distance on my Apple Watch and at the end I managed to get 4.55km, with my 1 mile time I tracked at ~9:30 for my first mile. I’ve never tried running for that long uninterrupted and was absolutely shocked I could do that, and to boot I did it all with a 20lb weight vest on. Reason for my shock is I’ve never ran before except when forced to as conditioning for various sports I played, and I’ve always been a big guy, just recently going from 265lbs to 210 in 4 months. I figured I’d come here to get some humbling replies from experienced runners about how i may have tracked it wrong or something, because it genuinely doesn’t compute how I managed this with 0 experience and an added 20lbs. Genuinely asking for some explanation as to how I managed this at all. Cheers