I ran track in Jr. High and High School, but my shin splints (then and now) have been the death of my running. To avoid the gym fears, I typically brisk walk outside on our trails that have killer hills, but with the weather too cold for that lately (ice on the ground), I'm braving the gym.
Anyway, I set the machine to my weight (don't you love how it always starts off at such a low number?!), set the workout to fat burner, and got after it. Since I'm just getting back into it, I knew it wasn't going to be pretty. I threw my magazine over all the dots and numbers and tried to not concentrate on what was going on underneath.
I was spent after 18 minutes. So I did a short cool down and looked at the numbers. The machine read distance-6.8 . I haven't a clue what that means. I was telling my husband about my achievement of just not dying on the darn machine and then I asked him what the 6.8 means. He said it might mean kilometers or miles. Then I told him my time and he said he is pretty sure that I couldn't go 6.8 kilometers or miles in 18 minutes. Not trying to be cruddy about it-just that I haven't exercised in quite some time.
So the short version to all of that is what does the elliptical's distance equate to?? Does it vary by elliptical? I'd love to shout for joy that I actually went 6.8 miles or 4.25 miles (converted kilometers) in 18 minutes but well...I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case!
Sorry if this question was already answered in a previous thread. I looked and looked before asking, but couldn't find anything.
