Running on a cruise ship was interesting. Especially when the cruise ship is out in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Graham Island in British Columbia. While the ship was quite large, we were still at sea and there was some significant ocean motion--which could especially be felt on a treadmill. We went to the gym about an hour after it opened. Since it was the first full day of the cruise, the place was packed. I was able to get on a treadmill, but they had a 30 minute time limit. Now, having mostly rested the prior week and being at sea level, I found myself running a bit faster than I had anticipated. With the ship rocking around, it was kind of like a trail run without any rocks. I set the treadmill to 7.0 and ran the last five minutes at 7.5. I then did a 5 minute "cool-down" where the treadmill went to 6.2. Now I was out of treadmill time, but still wanted to run some more. So I went to the Promenade Deck (level 3) where there was an outdoor deck that encircled most of the ship. One lap around the deck was 1/3 of a mile, if the sign posted was correct. It was sort of like running on a stretched out track. After leaving the hot, stuffy gym, it was very refreshing to be on the cool deck running into a nice headwind on the starboard side with a good tailwind when running on the port side. I did 7 laps which brought my total to around 6 miles. It was nice to run because I tend to get motion sickness. While I could feel the ship moving around while lying in my bed, it didn't really bother me until I stood up and started walking around. I was feeling a bit queasy until I started running. Of course, after I was done running, I started feeling queasy again.
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