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May 25, 2005
It Appears that I am Heartless
A few weeks ago one of the women I run with asked me if I would be interested in wear testing a new product that she had been involved in the development of. It is actually a pretty cool product. They were developing a sports bra that you can snap a heart rate monitor into the bra without the strap. Now, I have never used a heart rate monitor before, so I am not the best wear-tester, but it is pretty cool. They supply us with the bra, heart rate monitor, and log sheets to keep track of the workouts. We are supposed to do the same workout with the bra and the strap.
Well, I took it to work with me today to try to figure out how the monitor works. I pretty much managed to program all of my data into it without a real problem. Then decided to try it out and see if it was working. I wet the transmitters and put it on and then started the watch. I waited the fifteen seconds to get a reading and...no heartrate. I did this about five or six times without ever getting a heartrate. I determined that I am either heartless or dead. Since as far as we can tell, I am not dead, I decided that it must mean that I am heartless.
When I got home, I tried it out again and finally got a reading. It must mean that I am heartless at work because I am not caring enough with the students. It has been rainy here all week, but I really wanted to run. My plan had been to go to a trail near the gym and run easy. I decided to go with my plan and drove over to the trail. It is fairly wide and not very rocky, I really wanted to run on it to stay off the roads and keep myself from running hard. I ran out, slightly downhill, in 18 minutes. I turned around and ran back, uphill, in 17 minutes. I ran around for another minute to run for a total of 36 minutes, probably a little bit short of five miles. I was definitely moving on the way back. I wore the heart rate monitor, but I'm not sure how hard or what percent of my max was. I guess that I'll learn more about that as I wear it more. I felt pretty good, but don't want to push it yet.
I went over to the gym and rode the bike for 40 minutes after my run. I stretched a little bit after riding the bike. My right knee feels a little funny now, but it didn't feel weird until I got up from eating my dinner. I need to get better about using my foam roller again because I can feel some tightness in my butt, etc...
Posted by Blondie at May 25, 2005 07:05 PM