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This morning, I ran a 5k (3.12 miles) on the treadmill. I did really good! I alternated between running and walking.
I thought this would be a fun math problem! Yay for math!
I started by running 6.0MPH for 3.5 minutes. Then I walked 3.5MPH for 1 minute. I repeated the running and walking intervals until I had gone 2 miles. After I completed two miles, my walking intervals were for a minute and a half; my running intervals were still for 3.5 minutes.
How long did it take me to do the 5k?
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Approx 33 min. The reason I say approximately is because my calculations were for you walking EXACTLY 3.5 mph and running EXACTLY 6 mph. I know the treadmill slowly increases and decreases as you adjust speeds. At 32.5 min you were at 2.91996 miles and at 36 min you would be at 3.26996 miles. How did I do?
If you want the final answer rounded, the 5k took you 34 minutes and 14 seconds.
Un-rounded: 34 minutes 14.15 seconds or 2054.1565714 seconds.
Rounded periodically throughout: 34 minutes 13 seconds
The first two miles took you 1307.1565714 seconds, or 22 minutes 50.16 seconds
(you went through the cycle as follows: full run, full walk, full run, full walk, full run, full walk, full run, full walk, full run, walk for 17 seconds)
The final 1.12 miles took you 747 seconds, or 12 minutes and 27 seconds.
(you went through the cycle as follows: full run, full walk, full run, full walk, run for 2 mintues and 27 seconds)
Great job! I need to start running and walking more instead of sitting on my ass doing math problems!