Warning: Only read if you are looking for some serious time to waste. After reading you may have wished you had those 2 minutes of your life back. Think of how I felt after I spent 20 minutes writing it!
Nothing worse than...
1. Watching Star Trek
2. Running 11 miles on a treadmill
3. Running without an ipod2. Running 11 miles on a treadmill
So when you put them together. Running 11 miles on treadmill, without an ipod, while watching Star Trek...well you can imagine.
Me, Laura and Matt are all training for a half marathon. This is my first winter training for anything other than a 10k. Partly because I am not a big fan of running in the cold or the snow so all the training I do in the winter has been on a treadmill. This year we decided to be brave and give it a try. So far it hasn't been too bad. We have been able to run all of our long runs outside by dressing warm. However, last Saturday it was snowing so much that running outside just wasn't an option. After stewing about what we were going to do we decided to go to Novell's corporate gym and watch Italian Job while running. Well once we left to go to the gym I realized I had forgotten my ipod.
Matt: "Do you want to turn around and get it"
Me: "No, we will be watching Italian Job the whole time so it will be fine"
I didn't think anyone would be at a corporate gym on a Saturday so watching my own movie wouldn't be a problem, right? Well, I was wrong. There were a few people there but that wasn't a big deal. The problem was one guy who had gotten there right before us and put on Star Trek! What!? Who watches Star Trek? So I ended up having to watch Star Trek for over an hour. Finally after I had 8 miles behind me I was able to watch 25 minutes of Italian Job. All three of us completed the 11 miles...I wouldn't recommend doing it on a treadmill especially while watching Star Trek. For our 12 mile run next Saturday we are hoping for better weather.
Apparently this was very traumatic for me. Why else would I blog about it?
2 comments:
Ahhhhhh! I honestly can't imagine anything worse! Maybe all those conditions, plus not having anything to pull your hair back with! That would be h*%#.
I was cracking up reading this. I can just imagine how frustrated you were. Anytime having to watch Star Trek would be a nightmare to me, even without the other crappy things!
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