January 29, 2010, Newsletter Issue #129: Tips for Treadmill Tolerability

Tip of the Week

I'm one of those runners who hates treadmills. I would much, much rather run outside. But sometimes the weather intervenes in the form of snow/ice.


Usually I'll just take a snow day as my rest day from running. But when the snow falls on a weekend, I'm less inclined to do that.


Yesterday we got about 5 inches of snow in greater Wash, DC. I got a nice run in early Sat. morning before the snow started, but I didn't feel confident that the streets and sidewalks would be passable on Sun. morning. I'm truly a morning runner, and I currently have access to a nice treadmill in my apt. building, so I decided to run inside.


What saved me was the miracle of technology--the TV on the treadmill. Any regular readers may remember my experience on the treadmill during the December blizzard, when the TV was stuck on an infomercial for some total body machine that I don't remember the name of, so I guess it didn't do the selling job very well.


I still don't know how to change the channel, but fortunately the TV  was set for a rerun of "Law & Order." I had never actually watched Law & Order before, and it was pretty entertaining. Enough so to get me through the better part of an hour of moderate running on the dreaded treadmill.


The moral of the story: If you have to run inside, try to plan it when there's something good on TV!

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