*headdesk*
Highlights of today include putting my foot through the wall--no, seriously. I was on the treadmill, right? And I slipped, and my foot got caught at the end of the treads/at the wall, and apparently arrived with enough force to put it *through* the wall. Thankfully, courtesy of another incident with exercise equipment, I do know how to patch holes in walls (and ceilings, in the earlier case). But, still...hole in the *wall*. I now have paper taped over it because A) I don't want the cats trying to go in--what can I say, I have big feet--and B) I don't want anything in the walls trying to come out.
Moral of this story, folks: put enough room to fall behind your treadmill.
On the plus side, I did 1.22m/350calories on the treadmill once I'd extracted my foot from the wall. I also discovered that running just isn't going to happen on that thing, so I did a fast walk/slower walk combo. I'm trying to come up with some sort of reasonable exercise solution that will work during the school year. I have to be at work by 7:30, which makes exercise in the mornings tough. I've timed myself and I need 2 hours to go from bed to the door at work if I try to exercise for 30 minutes first (due to the need to shower and partially dry my hair, among other things). In the summer, it's not even light enough outside to see until around 6, and it'll be worse in the winter. The city park where I walk/run is not in the best part of town, so I'm reluctant to run there in the dark. So, it's either exercise after work (when I'm tired, grumpy, need to come up with dinner, and have had all day to talk myself into not exercising) or exercise inside, which means the treadmill and no running. Because I fall off, and my walls just can't take it. Why can't this be simple?
Moral of this story, folks: put enough room to fall behind your treadmill.
On the plus side, I did 1.22m/350calories on the treadmill once I'd extracted my foot from the wall. I also discovered that running just isn't going to happen on that thing, so I did a fast walk/slower walk combo. I'm trying to come up with some sort of reasonable exercise solution that will work during the school year. I have to be at work by 7:30, which makes exercise in the mornings tough. I've timed myself and I need 2 hours to go from bed to the door at work if I try to exercise for 30 minutes first (due to the need to shower and partially dry my hair, among other things). In the summer, it's not even light enough outside to see until around 6, and it'll be worse in the winter. The city park where I walk/run is not in the best part of town, so I'm reluctant to run there in the dark. So, it's either exercise after work (when I'm tired, grumpy, need to come up with dinner, and have had all day to talk myself into not exercising) or exercise inside, which means the treadmill and no running. Because I fall off, and my walls just can't take it. Why can't this be simple?