Treads
I feel like I've been thoroughly spanked. *smirks* It's my own fault really. Yesterday I tried treadmill for the first time. I always made fun of people on treadmills... why the hell don't they really run? I usually work out on EFX, elliptical trainers, the provide a low-muscular impact cardio workout. They're fun but after having used them for over a year, I'm bored. I went into the gym on my free time yesterday when class was cancelled and got shafted into using the stairclimber because everything else was full. That sucked royally after about 5 minutes. How boring! Then one of the StarTrak thingies opened up so I got on it. Treadmills have always scared me. I keep having visions of myself flying off the back and landing about 20 feet across the room while everyone laughs at me. That, and generally, half an hour of straight running usually is too much for me. Or used to be, in any case. I actually think they're pretty cool... though I won't be the first one to say that real trail running is better. I think I'll start using them, but only because I don't have a music device that's portable enough to carry on a track, and I need my tunes. Today I ran 3 miles, 10 minutes a piece. It's easy to see how treadmills can be good for training... I guess they're pretty cool, but not very exiting as far as excercize goes. My body had forgotten that running takes muscles. I almost fell off the thing AFTER it had stopped, and now I feel like I cowgirl. Yipee-cay-yay.

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