Day 18

Now I remember why I never stuck with walking/running on a treadmill for too long. That has to be the most boring way to walk /run in the history of walking/running. It was like watching grass grow.  I was only able to do one mile before my ADHD kicked and almost drove me mad. Not to mention my handy dandy Nike + app didn’t work down in the basement because 1- there was no GPS signal and 2- I’m not sure it can accurately calculate running on the treadmill. It may be able to but I didn’t care to investigate further. I’m not running/walking on that treadmill again unless absolutely necessary!

So I get up at normal time and of course go play with my new puppy, Sara. She’s the best dog in the whole wide world. Yes, the whole, wide world.  I know this blog is suppose to be about my not training for a marathon but she plays a key part in it so I will mention her from time to time.  She’s doing really well with the housebreaking. She knows to go on the wee-wee pads. I will say 90% of the time she does. Every now in then she’ll tinkle on the floor if she can’t find one in time but for the most part, she’s doing really well. I can’t wait until she gets her rabies shots so I can take her outside.

Like I said, before wandering off about Sara, I go downstairs to my fancy workout room and get on my overly compensating treadmill and walk the first lap. I then decide to run the second lap. My treadmill is designed to show you actual “laps” on the display board. As I walked/ran around that fake “track” I was SO bored. All I had to look at were my stats and those stupid dots that indicated where I was on the “lap.”  BORRR-RING!

I can’t even tell you what my walk/run ratio was because my ADHD starting me to looking around the workout room and thinking how I could redesign it and I then I started thinking about other things that had nothing to do with my walk/run.  What the kids were doing, reminding myself to do a load of laundry, what sundress I was wearing today, etc.  Anything but not training for a marathon was going through my head. After one mile, I got off the treadmill and decided since I was down there, I had might as well get on the stationary bike for a little while since my attention span wouldn’t allow me to finish the two miles on the treadmill. That too was boring. I rode the bike for fifteen minutes and got off of it.

Don’t get me wrong, I had music playing but it was just not the same as being on that track. When I’m on the track, all I think about is walking/running and the scenery. Nothing else even matters other than the other joggers/walkers, lady on a bicycle (who had no business there), and an occasional dog chasing me here and there. Other than that, it’s all about my walk/run. My home life is left at home and I can focus on walking/running.

I think from now on if I can’t get to the track I will do one of those workout videos I have downstairs to get my exercise in. A Zumba , yoga, belly dancing video or something like that. You don’t even want to know how many workout videos I have. Let's just say I have more than enough to keep my mind occupied on those OFF-TRACK days because trying to walk/run on a treadmill will not work for me.  My brain can’t handle running/walking whilst staying in the same exact place and never going anywhere for too long. I may come up out of that basement a mental patient.

All in all I did get a good workout this morning between the treadmill and the bike. I was soaked with sweat and I felt like I did do something. It wasn’t the same feeling as when I come from that track but it’ll have to do for today.

Until tomorrow…

Ms. P.