Man, I found a pretty intense hill workout to do on a treadmill. Well I have 3 of them, but I tried one yesterday. First I did my normal lifting, and it seems now that MSU switched our summer work schedule from 7:30-4pm, that I will be doing all my workouts after work. So I lifted for an hour, and believe me it’s an intense lifting session in an hour. I’m probably the only person who lifts in there that leaves with a wet shirt before cardio. I also have a great ab workout that I’m doing now to go with it, and I’m seeing results in the mirror.

Well the hill workout, and if you think it’s easy try it! You set the treadmill on a level 6-8 incline (I did 6) and then you set the mph so that it comes out 3 minutes slower than your best mile. Well my best mile is normally around 8 minutes, so now I needed an 11 minute mile or 5.5 mph pretty much. So you run on a 6 incline at 5.5 mph for me as long as you can. Well I made myself run for 35 minutes because my training yesterday called for a 35 minute run. I was completely tired and soaked after that 35 minutes, and breathing like crazy. So I can assure it is intense and you find new leg muscles from running up a hill for 35 minutes. I’m hoping this makes me faster in the long run and a better hill climber.

I’m still debating on the tri for next weekend. I don’t want to go alone, and I also have to work all weekend and continue all my workouts which will make for a long week next week. I really want to do it, but I’m thinking.

Next couple of days…Today-58 minutes of swimming, Tomorrow-hour of lifting and then a 117 minutes of biking (hopefully no rain), and then Friday-56 minutes of running after working at night. Oh well, the price you pay to train.

LJ