I left way too early on Wednesday morning for Oakland (7:15 am) which meant I needed to be at Honolulu Airport about 5 am! So much for a Wednesday morning workout–or anything resembling it until that evening until at the fitness center at the hotel. They had treadmills, weights, elipticals, and stationary bikes.

I haven’t done more than a couple of runs on a treadmill; they’re useful, of course, but they’re not the same as riding on the road. For some reason I’m always a lot slower being measured on the treadmill than on the road, and it showed–the running I typically do at about an 11 minute per mile pace was more like 13 minutes per mile on the treadmill, and because there was no wind to wick the sweat I was dripping. Still, it was an okay workout.

The stationary bike, on the other hand, was substantially worse: no micro adjustable seat height meant that at best my position was an approximation, the seat was way too wide, and the Q factor was ridiculous. Still, I did a few minutes there, and that was it.

For the whole trip.

My running partner was wanting us to run outside at least once but this island boy is not running in 49 degree weather he can barely go out in a London Fog coat to experience.
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