Today was supposed to be another fast and easy two mile run. Rather than run this one for time, I decided to head to my gym (the one I pay for rather than the one at work) and use their high end treadmills to run some hills. I have a treadmill at home but it is so old it doesn’t even have a display to tell you your incline. The ones at work are more advanced but don’t have the ability to do a negative incline. Why should I suffer through hills if I never get to run back down?
Anyway, I walk in the gym and go straight for the biggest baddest treadmills they have. Not the nice friendly ones that would have worked just as well. The ones with the hand grips up high that go up to a 30% incline.
30%?
Isn’t that called rock climbing?
I think, “How hard can it be to figure this machine out? I’ve seen people on these things who look like they couldn’t manage to turn on a light switch!”
WRONG
I finally find the hill program and (thankfully) it asks me what I want to be my maximum incline. I don’t remember what number I put in but I know that it was TOO DAMN HIGH! I did know enough to run more slowly, but I couldn’t make a mile of that program. Too much uphill and not enough down.
I found the cool down button while swearing under my breath. Didn’t have enough breath to swear out loud! Found the manual button and ran the remaining distance at a normal pace.
I know I need to run some hills, but today was really awful. There has to be another way. Runners around here run bridges—good solution unless you are, like me, terrified of heights. The most popular bridge to run is one I can’t even stand to drive over.
Tomorrow is another rest day. I'll take it.
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