Still ice in crucial parts of Bicester which means that yesterday's run would be on the treadmill. I chose my running partner for the day (Tom Petty's Greatest hits on the iPod) and decided to put the treadmill on the highest incline. I wasn't sure how far I'd run and couldn't help thinking my strategy of chooing a Greatest Hits album, because they are generally longer, was a little on the optimistic side.
The incline feels like hard work to start with, and I make sure that I run at the same pace as usual even though I am running uphill - by the end of American Girl I was struggling somewhat. Worrying, as American Girl is the first track on the album. As always I managed to find a rhythm, but halfway through Refugee I felt my back leg go, and almost staggered off the back of the treadmill.
Once again I was able to continue and somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes I felt ready to stop. However I didn't want to stop when Even the Losers was playing, as it somehow would have felt appropriate. At 25 minutes, at a less appropriate song, I called it quits.
Reasonably happy in as much as I have worked hard to cover 2.5 miles uphill. My next two runs this week need to be longer though, and hopefully outdoors if the ice will finally melt ...
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