Not bad after all this time, one mile in less than 15 minutes.
Rejoice! Everyone will be spared those mediocre binary jokes until October since today is the last day the date is kept exclusively to zeroes and ones.
Meanwhile I had a stroke of luck with my treadmill acquisition. On Sunday evening I received a phone call from the assembly guy in Waco; his company was sending him to the Austin area to pitch in. Therefore, my delivery date was moved up a week (to today)! Better yet, there was vacation time available through work to make the arrangements.
How is the new treadmill? It’s sweet. The assembly guy (Mike) whipped it together in an hour and fortunately he wasn’t allergic to cats (I asked him that during the call). I gave him a cash tip to get a hot drink in this horrible weather and to thank him for his time too; he had two more to tackle (Round Rock and Cedar Park).
Back to the running part. I put on my gear to give it the inaugural one-mile run. It was awesome! Me? I’m really out of shape, my right side cramped up during the third lap. Yes, as the picture above shows, it has an oval-shapped track to give an equivalent for the distance covered. The treadmill also confirmed what I had always suspected, the Wii Fit was inflating my success around the virtual island. If I spent 14.5 minutes running on the Wii, I would’ve cleared a mile much sooner, probably within 11 minutes in my current, fat, out-of-shape condition. I can’t marry the two together until we resolve the video issues our Wii developed around Christmas. Maybe in the Spring.
Since the treadmill’s display is satisfactory and my iPod Touch is hooked in, I’m going to delay purchasing the iFit Wi-Fi adapter. Besides its $130 price tag, I want to see exactly what this device really does. If you have one, let me know.
Tonight will be spent piecing together a decent running mix that will last long enough to acheive my primary goal of 30 minutes/day on it. I also have my annual heart screening in a week. They’ll be shocked on the head start I have this time! The Whataburger in my blood level won’t be as high neither.