a false start

I was lazy all weekend, but tried to make up for it this evening by wandering over to my apartment complex's new "fitness center". The "center" is about the size of my living room and houses about 6 or 7 fitness machines and 2 of the cheapest treadmills one could buy. And oh, what is that? One of the treadmills was "Out of Order". The place has only been open a week and one is already broken?! Not a good sign.

But I needed a run, so I fired up the lone operational treadmill and had the grand thought of doing 8 miles. Well, as luck would have it, another resident came in about 4 minutes into my run. He did not say anything, but used a couple of the machines and then seemed to be just hanging out. So it was obvious he wanted the treadmill but wasn't going to push it. So I decided to cut things short and stopped at the 2 mile mark (completed in 16:58) and headed back to my apartment, disappointed.

So week 1 of the new year is behind me with a grand total of 10 miles run. Not exactly up to the 20 mile per week goal I had envisioned for myself, but it's early. I think it's time to investigate running alternatives since it is obvious that my apartment's "fitness center" is not going to offer me much. I'm happy with the fitness center at work, but do not care to drive make the 30+ mile round trip on the weekends just to get a run in. But we'll see what happens. The only good thing about today's run is that there seemed to be zero problems with the new shoes. Hopefully no more blisters are in their future.