It started simply enough…
Mary of A Merry Life had made a comment on Twitter yesterday about maybe wanting to do a workout pledge. She was considering doing 30 seconds on the treadmill per comment. I told her to be careful, because she tends to get A LOT of comments, but then nonchalantly said I’d match whatever the pledge was in a workout.
And so it began…
By the time commenting closed at 2:30pm CST, there were 180 comments, which equates to 90 minutes on the treadmill. Holy shit! But that isn’t even the best part! What I thought was going to be a small challenge involving Mary and I, became SO MUCH MORE.
As of this writing, there were at a TON of other people doing the pledge as well!
- Mary
- Jen
- Lauren
- Josie
- Tina
- Tania
- Meegan
- Kepa
- DCKate
- Beej
- Jodi
- Andrew
- Shelli
- Amber
- Jess
- Sean
- Karen
- Kat
- Lynne
- Michelle
- Lynn
- Gina
- Rachel
- Mary’s Mom
The coolest part about that is that I don’t even think that is a complete list! That is what I pulled from Mary’s posting, but more and more people are joining the fold in the post comments! I find it absolutely fascinating that this pledge became just as much a community exercise as it did actual, well, exercise!! This blogging community truly is awesome, there is just no other way to say it.
Anywho, so about the run.
Ninety minutes on the treadmill, right? Easy peasy. Oh wait, I want to actually try to run all of that? That may be a different story…
…or maybe not…kinda…
7.91 miles in 90 minutes!!!! BOOYAH!
The longest I’ve spent on the treadmill in one session, and the farther I’ve ran in one sitting. WooHoo! Now, I did have to walk for a few brief moments (sidestitch sucks), but whatever. I also tried to maintain a slower running pace than usual. Generally, speaking, I don’t really like to go below 6.0mph, but I’ve never tried running for this long before, and I wanted to conserve my energy, so for the most part was running was kept at about 5.5mph. I did run one full mile at 6.0mph though, and I even had a couple of brief flirtations with 7.0mph, so WooT!
Once I got an idea of how my pace was, I told myself, and the tweeps, that I wanted to get at least 7.5mph under my belt. Seeing as how I got .41miles over that, I’d say I did okay.
ALSO, for the past couple of weeks I’ve been running my treadmill runs on a 1% incline…this was true today…mostly. For the last 10 minutes I ran at 2%. It actually wasn’t that bad.
And check this out…I even got a shout out on YouTube! Thanks Kepa!
Haha..yeah…I don’t think he REALLY hates me though…hehe 
Last but not least…Beej suggested we post pics of ourselves after the workout, so here you go, me in all my sweaty, grody, glory:
Sexy, right?
That’s all I got for now. Be sure to follow the progress of the fellow runners. Most are livetweeting the run, and you can track ‘em with the hastag #amerryworkoutpledge.
Have a great evening, everyone!
