<p>Here’s a YouTube of Ben Bruno doing 8 Tabata intervals (4 minutes) on an Airdyne at Mike Boyle’s gym. Bruno is 25 years old and crazy strong. You can see the pain at the end.</p>
<p>[Tabata</a> Airdyne Bike Intervals - YouTube](<a href=“Tabata Airdyne Bike Intervals - YouTube”>Tabata Airdyne Bike Intervals - YouTube)</p>
<p>Such a beautiful morning, I felt obligated to go for a run.
Just a quick 3 miles around the neighborhood, but it felt good, so I took a page out of idad’s book and did some interval sprints at the end.</p>
<p>BQ. (10 char).</p>
<p>OK. So you knew I had to try it. I saddled up the Airdyne and did a Tabata. Eight minutes of easy warmup, then I started a Workout Muse Techno Tabata soundtrack. 20 seconds hard, 10 seconds rest. 8 rounds in four minutes.</p>
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<p>Brutal. I started out at a pretty aggressive pace – 80+ rpm pedal speed. By the third interval, my legs were on fire and I was slowing down. From the halfway point, I was just hanging on for dear life, barely managing 70 rpms. </p>
<p>Only saw a peak heart rate of 94%, but that’s still pretty high in just four minutes. I was absolutely panting like a dog and was pretty close to keeling over at the end. One set of eight was plenty.</p>
<p>Lol idad, good for you. I, on the other hand, still can’t comfortably wear a regular shoe (stupid toe), and have lapsed into an oreo cookie fest, while sitting with my poor 16 year old kitty, who has taken a sudden turn for the worse, and I think won’t be with us much longer.</p>
<p>MOWC…enjoyed reading about your 5K. We just returned from one in Iowa. It was fun. Also in a State Park but very well organized. Over 1300 runners in half marathon, 10K and 5K combined. One glitch in the 5K…runners had to turn around on the trail at one point but it wasn’t clearly marked so the leaders ran too far until someone figured it out. Cost those leaders personal records. D2 was one of those leaders but still managed to medal. This was her second official 5K so we were pretty proud of her. H finished 4th in his age group and D1 and I finished 9th in our age groups.Not sure how many were in my age group but they had at least 11 names after mine. My family was ecstatic as I even ran for small parts of the race. The food afterwards was unbelieveable…pork BBQ, pizza, beer, energy drinks, fruit, granola and cereal bars, cookies and bagels! Will definitely return here next year.</p>
<p>Ouch, blankmind. I hope your kitty crosses the Rainbow Bridge soon without much suffering.</p>
<p>blankmind:</p>
<p>I had to make the decision on a cat that we had for something like 16 years. I put it off and finally just picked a day. I had told everyone that I was going to do it “soon”, but didn’t tell them ahead of time. It was hard, but for the best as the poor thing was really in decline with progressive chronic kidney disease.</p>
<p>Totally sucks.</p>
<p>BB- was your race today? Did you BQ?</p>
<p>Wait, did BB just post that she qualified for Boston on her marathon?</p>
<p>I think she did!</p>
<p>NM- Congrats on the 5K and the success of your family!</p>
<p>Blankmind- so sorry about your kitty. Been there…</p>
<p>Met some of my internet running friends for 10 miles here in PA this morning. Easy pace and good conversation. It is really awful here-100% humidity. I go back to TN tomorrow.</p>
<p>BB, is that right, you qualified for the Boston marathon? Wow, that’s amazing!! Congratulations!</p>
<p>If kitty makes it through the night, I’ll have to take her to the vet tomorrow, and I’m afraid it’s for that final visit. She stopped eating, and now is having trouble walking, seems to have lost some control of her back legs. The worst part is how to tell my son, who just went off to college. This kitty has slept with him for the last 16 years, but since we returned from dropping him off, she won’t even go into his room. It’s like she misses her special human. I really don’t want to give him this bad news.</p>
<p>Back to my oreos.</p>
<p>Yup. Thanks, guys. So sorry if I sounded as if I was bragging. Did not mean to - I was extatic to be able to finish and with a good time (I had no idea what my time was because my Garmin took a hit from a water sprayer in the last miles and malfunctioned). That was all I could type after recovering a bit, and my brain was too fried to even remember about the 10 character message thing. The race was quite a challenge because of so many factors. I ran my tail off and then I died, just like about everyone else on the course, but I kept the promise that I jokingly made to D about 4 years ago, “D, it is a long shot, but if they do accept you, I will have to run through the scream tunnel”. Little did I know… She got in. </p>
<p>The race was fun, but HARD. We are experiencing record-breaking heat. It was 60 degrees when the race started, but warmed up rather quickly. I felt very sorry for slower folks: they had to endure scorching sun and 80 degrees (not that common in my neck of the woods). By the second half of the race I really envied the half runners. 
The race was held on a bunch of country roads with zero shade, but the local HS kids who manned the water stations did a fantastic job! Heat was just one thing going against me. I also got a visit from mother nature last night (looking forward to the darn menopause!), could not sleep because of the heat and cramps, and did I also mention that our 110 lb GSD stepped on my bare foot last night when I was racing the clock trying to paint the kitchen door before it got too dark? OK, enough wining! I ran 26.2 miles - the longest distance I’ve ever ran. Cool. I’m not sure if I want to do it again, but as MOfWC says, running is stupid.</p>
<p>Thank you, MOFWC, for encouraging and coaching me on this thread. And thank you all, DEHW supporters!</p>
<p>Congratulations! Awesome news, that made my day. I told you you were hella fast :)</p>
<p>I’m just going to stand here and applaud! Ya’ll are talkin’ a level of exercise of which I am not familiar! Awesome, BB.</p>
<p>BB that’s not bragging! That’s sharing fantastic news. I’m in awe of just running that far, much less running fast.</p>
<p>Yeah. Besides, it was a fun riddle. I had been wondering for a couple of hours what in the world BQ meant!</p>
<p>Is there any miscers in here?</p>
<p>Congrats, BB! Do we get to know your time? Do you think you’ll go to Boston? Great job! Running IS stupid!</p>
<p>BB - Congrats! That is incredible! Here’s to Boston!!!</p>
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