Thanks to my wonderful mom, I now have my very own treadmill!!! No more running in the rain, the cold, or the dark.
But wait. I LOVE running in the cold. The rain, not so much, but I don’t hate it. And running in the dark I avoid, only because of safety issues and the lack of other people on the trails I run after dark.
Since I’ve had the treadmill (it’s been assembled and running for about a week), I have run outside 0 times. Even this weekend, when I had nice sunny but chilly weather. My dog, Roxy, loves to go running with me too.
But here’s what happens now.
Weekday mornings: Gee, I could get up an hour early and run outside, or I could snooze the alarm. So I snooze. Then at 7pm (or sometimes 11pm), I start to feel guilty about skipping my run and hit the treadmill.
Weekend: Saturday was a special case because I had plans from 9am to 7pm — it was dark when I got home. And I don’t do 6am runs on the weekends! On Sunday though, I procrastinated just long enough that I didn’t have time to fit in my scheduled 40 minute run. I did run, but at 9pm on the treadmill.
Poor Roxy hasn’t been out running in over a week.
Hmmm… I remember when I first starting getting into running I begged Terry for a treadmill and he said no as he figured the running thing was a phase. Hah!
But because I was determined to prove him wrong, I avoided running on treadmills and now can’t run on them as the outdoor runs totally recharge my batteries.