I’ve eaten the same breakfast for 3 days straight and now for dinner I am eating something very similar to last nights dinner. Lucky for you all, It won’t be 3 days of veggie burgers because I ate the last one tonight. With Brittany’s Blend (made for me… ) of veggies from Trader Joe’s mixed with the left over peas from last night. Along with some veggies and hummus.
So funny thing about the gym today. I am not a competitive person at the gym, at least I don’t feel I am. I can walk at 4.5 on the treadmill with the person next me running at 10.0 and feel fine about myself. Maybe it would be better if I were more competitive because today it paid off. The lady next to me kept looking at the treadmill, so much so that it was really noticeable. I was walking, incline at 1, speed 4.5, and reading the new Health Magazine. She was doing running intervals, I don’t know if it is because she was getting tired and needed to walk between running or if she was doing a timing thing. But anyhow after 10 minutes of walking I thought I would run a bit. So I turned it up a notch and started running at 6.5. I didn’t even notice what speed she was at, until I saw that she kept looking at my machine. I looked over and noticed she was at 6.5. I few minutes later she was at 6.8. This bugged me, that she purposefully was trying to show me up, sooo I upped the anty quite a bit and started doing 7.6. She looked over and I strategically flipped a page in my magazine like I was simply reading leisurely on the beach. She quickly upped hers to 7.0. After about 2 minutes I started running at 8.0 for 1 minute intervals. She seriously looked at me with a grimace. After receiving that look, I felt really proud when she got off the treadmill soon after. Which was also good because I was quite tired of running between 7.5-8.0. I went back to 6.5 once I was sure she was out of sight. It was an interesting thing for me because I haven’t had a treadmill competition with anyone before. But man did it feel good today! So I guess the healthy competition is a good for me, otherwise I probably would have kept running at 6.5 with no speed increases. Thanks lady.
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A little (unexpected) competition is always good. Your story made me giggle. I think of myself of the person that runners love to run to next to because they are in no danger of being slower than me, their neighbor.
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Haha that’s an awesome story. It’s probably good I don’t go to a gym because I would be totally uncomfortable with people competing with my speed. It would drive me crazy. Although it would probably push me a lot to go outside of my comfort zone…
haha that’s a great story. I’m definitely guilty of looking at how fast other people are going. I hate running next to people on the treadmill though, it totally messes up my stride and I tend to get tripped up which is always embarrassing.
Haha! That’s a great treadmill story. And wow, you were going fast. A little healthy competition is a good thing now and again!
This is so something I would do.
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