Tuesday 25th August 2009

Been backsliding a bit over the last few days, with one thing and another - so today, rather than a run, I went to the Marriott gym in Glasgow (have a 5 day free trial pass to try it out) - so, used a treadmill and a stepping machine for the first time. In both cases, went a bit slower (at least to start with) than normal, and actually managed to run for longer in a continuous session than I can normally manage on my runs around the loch - rather odd. Also had a go on a cycling machine for a while too - I reckon between the four sessions on the three machines I probably did about 5km today, one way or another (less impressive than it sounds, as I managed to cover a fair bit of that on the cycling machine which was rather less effort !) The treadmill will take a bit of getting used to, as I had some severe jelly legs after getting off (why has the floor stopped moving !!) but as an alternative when it's too dark (and wet, and cold !) for night time running, it might be a good alternative (if expensive) ... and they do after work adult swimming lessons too ...