The Machine of Doom

I dread running on the treadmill! This past fall, however, it was the only way I could get in my mileage.

After a 15 mile bike ride, I had extreme pain and swelling in my hip joint. Every time I tried to run, it would just make the pain worse. I would take a day or two off, and hit the road again...always with the same end result, horrible pain and a couple days limping around the house.

After much deliberation, I decided the roads were probably a bit too hard on my injury. My only two choices were to give up running for a while or find a softer surface on which to run. I chose the later.

With much dread, I faced the machine of doom three to five days a week. Three miles was about all I could take before the boredom set in. I called them my runs to nowhere. While I am overjoyed that I had the option of using the treadmill, at the time, I wished it was by choice and not necessity.

In January I started running on the roads again. It has been a very cold winter here in the Midwest, however, I am just thrilled to be running somewhere, instead of nowhere!