Running on the cruise

Last week we were on a cruise! In planning a marathon training schedule that would have a vacation right in the middle of it, there was going to have to be some flexibility on that week’s running. There was no way I was getting a normal training week of running in while on a cruise ship, but I needed to run some. So I planned 3 hour-ish long runs of higher intensity (2 hill runs and a tempo run). I hoped that the boat would have decent treadmills, and I was happily impressed with Precores!

Well running on a boat is an interesting thing. I ended up running my 2 hill runs on the days the boat was the most rolly. My programmed hills had extra variation and some nice side to side incline changes thanks to the waves. It was kind of funny, especially when my flat parts turned into downhill, which the treadmill itself didn’t do. Friday the boat and the treadmill almost bucked me off! I was running 1 mile hill intervals, and holding on the whole time because of the waves. Even so it almost rolled me sideways off the treadmill with one wave!