Millhouse Five

Summary Data
Total Time (h:m:s)	47:00	9:18 pace
Distance (mi )	5.05
Moving Speed (mph)	6.4 avg.	7.7 max.
Elevation Gain (ft)	+0/-0
Avg. Heart Rate	152 bpm	169 max

Start Time: 02:50:56 PM

With snow on the ground again (and more to come) I took the workout indoors again. Hills I had planned to do indoors, but it has to be pretty cold to chase me off the streets---or slick and snowy. So I took the five inside on the treadmill. Pretty dull----if I could watch a movie while running, it would be very cool---but bad television does little for me and commercials even less. Unfortunately, Ratner does not have that many people that are, uh, easy on the eyes, so even that distraction is removed from us. I spent my run working on ideas related to the prospectus for the network book and I think that by incorporating the working paper on complex behaviors into this, we might have something interesting.

The footpod continues to be unreliable. I moved the setting from the track-calibrated 992 to the default 1000 and we went from a .25 difference over five miles to a .11 difference. I am tempted to just go with a 1008 which I think may 'calibrate' the pod to the treadmill, but what I really want to know is whether the treadmill is giving me an accurate reading. I followed a suggestion I read somewhere to run at 1% to more accurately simulate real road running and I thought that went well. I did not notice that the run was harder, so I think that is a good sign. Since all of the treadmills at Ratner seem to be off of the footpod by similar amounts, my inclination is to say that it is the footpod that needs to be calibrated to the treadmill. I will try the 1008 next time and see where it leaves me.