(40:39 min)
Have I written enough/too much of my disgust for running on treadmills? Here’s another one…
I’m currently in Doha, Qatar (find it on the map) for the World Innovation Summit for Education. This place of something like 1000 skyscrapers being constructed in the sand next to the sea is unlike any other place I’ve been too.
But that’s another topic.
The customs here seem to make it not a place to go outside for a run, plus it is humid AND hot.
The long plane ride and the ensuing jet lag have dented the training schedule but nabbed an hour to hit the gym at the Sheraton- one of the biggest and equipped hotel gyms I’ve seen anywhere. I managed to get a 40 minute slow run in, and not go too loony trying not to look at the readout (actually I liked this treadmill since the tv screen wipes out the digital read out).
But a treadmill is a treadmill is a treadmill- it goes round and round and round.
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November 17th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Kudos for keeping up your training even while you’re away from home. I always schlep my running shoes along with me, run on the first day of my trip, and then get too lazy (or busy, or drunk) to keep up the regimen for the rest of the time. And working up the gumption to do it on a treadmill, possibly the Worst Place in the World to run, is doubly commendable. Keep it up!
November 17th, 2009 at 8:58 am
I’m in Jamaica at the mo and have to run inside for many of the same reasons. I too don’t like treadmills, my god that clock ticks slowly. But I try and use it for different types of workout eg hills, or speed session. I also have a treadmill at home and I find this psychologically useful – it’s raining, and driving wind outside, I don’t fancy going out but I’ll do 3 miles fast on the treadmill.
So it has it’s place, but like you, about 40mins is my limit on it.
November 20th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Keep the kudos; I ran but once in Doha, so my training schedule has a big old dent in it.
Great intentions lesser achievements.