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Week 1/15/23: 12.17 Miles (Six-Gun Gold)

Elliptical: 12.17 miles in 1 hour

  • Sunday 1/15: 
    • 6.15 miles @ 31:11 minutes
  • Monday 1/16:
    • 6.02 miles @ 29:33 minutes
  • Resistance Level 6 all sessions
  • Intervals with each session:
    • Started intervals after 1 minute warm-up
    • 27:40 minutes of intervals
    • 20 seconds high intensity, 1 minute low intensity x 20 intervals 

Watched One Movie:

  • Six-Gun Gold (1941)
    • Starring Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, and Jan Clayton
      • IMDb Movie Outline: Don and his pals are mistaken for gold thieves, so they set out to find the real gold thieves and Don's missing brother Brad, a U.S. Marshal.

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