Treadmill Love...

This weekend we went on a trip to Schaumburg near Chicago to finalize our shopping before the baby comes and while G still has some stamina. We went up on Friday night full well knowing that we would need to stay another night because of a dumping of snow that was coming. Staying another night meant I would be running 9 miles on a treadmill for some LSD. My thought was that I had run on a treadmill before and knew if I could zone out watching television I would be "fine." No such luck. The hotel got 13 channels and there was nothing that grabbed my attention. It was going to be a long run. What made it worse was there was no fan to cool off. That made my sweat almost useless for cooling my body. It was a big psychological and physical killer. It was hard to zone out and felt quite hot because I was use to running outside in the subfreezing temperatures. I am glad I got my Long Slow Distance (LSD) run completed, but I am also glad it is over. So...here's to my love of the treadmill this morning...up yours...