RunningAHEAD - Topic: Another 2,000+ mile year without a single step on a dreadmill

arc918

posted: 1/2/2009 at 6:34 PM

any other anti-dreadmillers out there??

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gumhead

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posted: 1/2/2009 at 6:37 PM
modified: 1/2/2009 at 6:37 PM

I run on dreadmills now and then but I'm still anti-dreadmill Evil grin

Jill_B

I fly.

posted: 1/2/2009 at 6:48 PM

Good for you! Someday I'll do all my runs outside, when the kids are both in school...

Bring it on.

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 1/2/2009 at 7:18 PM
modified: 1/2/2009 at 7:24 PM

I am anti-dreadmill, but I was forced to take a few steps on one and the closure of my gym during ice conditions has convinced me to buy one. It takes some seriously bad weather for me to do it. There is no amount of cold or rain that will drive me indoors, the only dreadmill time for me is ice. If I am going to fall on my ass and twist a knee every step of the way, then I'll take it indoors. MTA: Thanks to eric's new report feature I was able to determine that I ran 79.5 of my 2100.3 miles on the dreadmill. Of those 79.5 miles - 42 of them were in the last 2 weeks for our ice storm

I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets

"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/2/2009 at 7:35 PM

Quote from arc918 on 1/2/2009 at 6:34 PM:

any other anti-dreadmillers out there??

I ran nearly 1600 miles for '08...0 on dreadmill (actually, since I started running nearly 3 years ago I've not logged any time on a treadmill). Though MIL bought me 2 months at a little local 24/7 gym, so I may get a few miles on one here and there--mostly for social time with a local friend who works during the day and doesn't care for Winter running after dark (can't blame her...footing can be difficult enough under broad daylight at times).

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

knifey

posted: 1/2/2009 at 7:44 PM

197 out of 1060 were on the treadmill this year! I need it occasionally for my lunch hour runs...either in the summer if it is too hot, or if it is raining. I don't mind running in the rain normally, but I work in a professional office and don't have time to blow dry my hair! Anne, thanks for adding the bit about Eric's new log, I didn't even know it could do that!!!

gumhead

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posted: 1/2/2009 at 8:34 PM
modified: 1/2/2009 at 8:35 PM

Wow I ran 114 out of my 612 miles last year on a tread Dead

I ran on one new years day because it was 4°F and the roads were covered with ice and snow. If I was in Southern California like you, I might not have to run on a treadmill ether. But up here in New England you have to do what you can to get in the miles...

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/2/2009 at 8:38 PM

Quote from gumhead on 1/2/2009 at 8:34 PM:

But up here in New England you have to do what you can to get in the miles...

Did you notice where I live...? YakTrax, baby. And layers...lots o' layers...and balaclavas. Treadmills...we don't need no stinkin' treadmills! Big grin

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

gumhead

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posted: 1/2/2009 at 8:46 PM

Im out there most days Zoomy. Look at my log, lots of 4am 20°F runs. I cross my heart that I will try harder and HTFU Tongue

Still wish I was in So Cal Cool

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/2/2009 at 8:52 PM

Quote from gumhead on 1/2/2009 at 8:46 PM:

Still wish I was in So Cal

Nah...we have better air. And they get hot in the Summer. Big grin

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

jEfFgObLuE

I've got a fever...

posted: 1/2/2009 at 9:56 PM
modified: 1/2/2009 at 10:03 PM

Nobody likes treadmills, but not running on one doesn't make you a superhero, and running on one doesn't make you a loser. Just sayin'. MTA: congrats to the OP on the 2000+ miles. That's the real achievement. MMTA: though having grown up in Michigan, there's probably some sort of quasi-superhero thing going on in places like that.

On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

Teresadfp

One day at a time