Yeah. It’s a month later and I haven’t run a day since. Finding time between my graveyard hours and everything else I have to do in a day has been nearly impossible. When I do have the time, I’m completely unmotivated to get out there. I miss the little track by my mom’s house, and I hate running in my sister’s neighborhood because rabid neighbor dogs always chase me.
This morning (or lunchtime, to you Day Dwellers), I woke up with a solution: the treadmill.
Yes, I hate treadmills. BUT. I love running, and this is a fair compromise.
We got this thing probably over ten years ago. Lugged it out here from Chicago with us. It hasn’t been used in a very long time. In fact, we dragged it out onto the back deck last year, planning on throwing it out or trying to give it away. So when I woke up this morning, the first thing that popped into my head was “treadmill.”
I went out and got an extension cord, plugged it in and (after a brief phone call to my sister) figured out how to turn it on. It works! It’s full of dust, dirt, leaves and dead bugs, but it works. Tomorrow I will give it a good cleaning and then get back to running.
I think I will run when I get home from work. You’re not supposed to work out before you go to bed, but with summer coming on, I would rather work out in the mornings before it gets too warm.
Plus, I really hope the noise disturbs my asshole neighbors while they’re trying to sleep. They built a fucking halfpipe by their fence and it’s right across the yard from my bedroom. Even with earplugs in, I can still hear the thumping and banging while I’m trying to sleep. I fucking hate these people.
Anyway, I’ve got the Couch-to-5k application for my iPhone and lots of Basshunter to run with, so I think this is going to work out really well for me. I would love to do strength training, too (I love it), but for now I’ll just focus on the running and eventually throw in some weights when I have a chance.
This morning (or lunchtime, to you Day Dwellers), I woke up with a solution: the treadmill.
Yes, I hate treadmills. BUT. I love running, and this is a fair compromise.
We got this thing probably over ten years ago. Lugged it out here from Chicago with us. It hasn’t been used in a very long time. In fact, we dragged it out onto the back deck last year, planning on throwing it out or trying to give it away. So when I woke up this morning, the first thing that popped into my head was “treadmill.”
I went out and got an extension cord, plugged it in and (after a brief phone call to my sister) figured out how to turn it on. It works! It’s full of dust, dirt, leaves and dead bugs, but it works. Tomorrow I will give it a good cleaning and then get back to running.
I think I will run when I get home from work. You’re not supposed to work out before you go to bed, but with summer coming on, I would rather work out in the mornings before it gets too warm.
Plus, I really hope the noise disturbs my asshole neighbors while they’re trying to sleep. They built a fucking halfpipe by their fence and it’s right across the yard from my bedroom. Even with earplugs in, I can still hear the thumping and banging while I’m trying to sleep. I fucking hate these people.
Anyway, I’ve got the Couch-to-5k application for my iPhone and lots of Basshunter to run with, so I think this is going to work out really well for me. I would love to do strength training, too (I love it), but for now I’ll just focus on the running and eventually throw in some weights when I have a chance.
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