I bought a treadmill for $200 off Craigslist yesterday. I don't know how fancy it is or it isn't, but it looks pretty damn good to me! And the best part is that Elvis chipped in $100! I set it up in my office, facing my computer screen so that I can watch movies while I walk. And yes, I do mean walk. Give me some time and I'll work up to jogging, but for now I'm starting off with something that does not intimidate me into wanting to quit if I fall behind.
I did 1.3 miles today while watching a one hour episode of a tv show that I like, but it was really uncomfortable because of how I had to set everything up. The treadmill itself is too loud to hear the computer over (even at 100% volume), and my earbud cord is way too short, so I pretty much had to roll the treadmill all the way up to the desk so that I could still hear the show. My cord still wasn't comfortably long enough, so I was left to walk in an awkward hunched position so that I wasn't pulling the cord out of the headset jack on the computer, and since my legs, and consequently my stride, are so long, half of my foot was stepping off the belt almost my entire walk. It was not the most conducive set up for a comfortable work out. Nevertheless, I broke a good sweat, enough that I'll need to shower before Elvis and I go to dinner tonight with friends, and I felt good afterwards.
One day in a row.
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