Tuesday: rest
Wednesday: 1mi WU + 4x (0.5mi HM pace [105/30 intervals] +4min walk) + 1mi CD. On the treadmill because I'm sick of running in 40 degrees and rain. Soooo, ummm, I did my intervals wrong on this workout last time I did it. I set them for 1:15/0:30 and it should have been 1:45/0:30. Oops! My treadmill changes paces very smoothly, but slower than I'd like, so this wasn't my favorite (and one of the reasons I've been running continuous for my "regular" runs on it) but the important thing is that I completed it. AND finished the first Hunger Games movie.
I'm building a watchlist on Prime and
Disney+ (and have realized that I have a whole lot of movies with Jennifer Lawrence and Hugh Jackman) and Netflix is a trusted standby with at least 1 if not 2 seasons of Call the Midwife for me to catch up on. It's almost full-time treadmill season for me, so I'll be spending a lot of quality time with my treadmill between now and January.
If anyone has suggestions for things to watch I'm definitely open to suggestions. I don't generally enjoy really violent stuff, and horror is not my thing. I tried Parks and Rec and I just can't get into that type of show either. I've got the remaining 3 Hunger Games movies, Ms Marvel, a bunch of X-Men movies and Logan, Greatest Showman, Hamilton (which I feel like I need to watch with captions on so I miss less of the sung dialogue), Love and Thunder, and Deadpool 1 & 2 (because there's never enough time to watch these in the evening after DD goes to bed and I'm definitely not watching them with her in the room and awake.)
Warning: TV junkie here! I also use guilty pleasure shows as bait for treadmill runs. A few suggestions you might like:
Derry Girls -- A hilarious and heartfelt Irish sitcom set in the 90s around a group of high school friends. It is great 90s nostalgia mixed with the political background of the IRA and all that was going on in Ireland and Northern Ireland at that time. Turn on subtitles as the accents are pretty thick. These are good for short runs as they are just 30 minutes and, being BBC, short seasons.
Schitt's Creek -- I almost hesitate to recommend this as it's a bit snarky like Parks & Rec, but give it a try. It takes a minute to settle into the tone of the full series, so give it the whole first season. If it hasn't hooked you by that season finale, it's probably not your thing.
Outlander -- Basically a romance novel on screen, which I normally hate, but there's a time travel element and a lot of it is set in Scotland. The history is pretty accurate and the costumes are incredible. A total guilty pleasure show that I save only for the treadmill.
After Life -- This may be a love-it-or-leave-it but it's super dry, dark humor from Ricky Gervais. It's about grief, and is so amazingly heartwarming but also a little sad. The whole series is out now so you can binge the whole thing if you really get into it.
Sprung -- This one is on Freevee, which is a free channel owned by
Amazon. It's by the same guy who did My Name is Earl and Raising Hope. Again, may not be your thing but I found it hilarious and sweet. And I LOVE Garrett Dillahunt and Martha Plimpton. It's set at the start of the pandemic and is about a group of minor criminals who get let out early due to Covid. The main character is a good guy who got 26 years for selling weed in the 90s thanks to mandatory minimum sentencing, so there's a bit of culture shock and fish out of water, and a whole lot of hilarious commentary on the dumb things we all did early on in the pandemic that we thought were making us safer. Again, this one is 30 minute episodes and just one season, so it's a quick watch and easy to string a few back to back as needed.
Ted Lasso -- If you have Apple TV this is probably the best show in the past few years. On the surface, it's about a midwest football coach from a small college who gets hired to coach a soccer team in the US, but it is SO much more!
I've also been rewatching old sitcoms like Scrubs, which holds up fairly well.
