With the new home gym now up and running, I have rediscovered the ‘joys’ of the treadmill.
Over the course of this week, I have managed a few walks ranging in distance from 2.7 km to today’s 5k.
As anyone who has known me for a while, I used to walk – a lot. I would often cover over fifty miles (80k) a week – I’m still in the process of switching over to kilometres.
However, a combination of arthritis and a knee injury curtailed my pedestrianism which is why I switched to cycling.
It’s still early days on my walking come back but I will try and persevere and slowly ratchet up the distance and speed.
Anyway, this morning I decided to attempt a 5k (parkrun distance) on the treadmill.
As a precaution, I taped up my right knee and after getting everything ready (treadmill, iPad running Zwift, drink, towel) I started the tread and set off to the sound of BBC 6 Music on my EarPods.
I started modestly at around 4.5 kph and turned up the speed as I advanced. You can see most of my kilometre splits on the photo as I finished.
The knee is a little sore but nothing Ibuprofen won’t fix. I know that I could comfortably finish a parkrun in under the hour – nowhere near my record of under thirty six minutes but so what ?
I’m away next week with no turbo trainer or erg rower so I’m hoping to do a few walks (IRL) as exercise – perhaps a parkrun tourist event next Saturday ?
When doing a walk on Zwift and uploading it to Strava, the latter records the event as a Virtual Run which cannot be changed to Walk.
The workaround is to delete the Strava event then, in Garmin Connect (to which I also save my Zwift efforts) change the event type to Walking then export the workout as .GPX.
Back in Strava, I import the GPX that I saved from Connect, change the title (copy & paste from Connect) and it’s sort of done.
A bit of a faff and until (if ever) Zwift create a proper Virtual Walk activity, it’ll have to do.
