Well, I had to do the dirty deed tonight.  I had to use my treadmill.  I swore off my treadmill for 4 years!  But I didn’t have a choice tonight and I didn’t want to miss the first workout of my Dopey cluster of runs this week.  I have to do 3, 5, 8 and 23 this week.  It was raining on my way home from work.  I don’t care about the rain, I would have gone out in it.  But my husband was still at work and wasn’t going to be home until almost 7.

It was already dark by 6:10 and I needed to be with the kids, so I had to fire up the dreadmill.  I had to put 2x4s underneath the back end of it to raise the back up a little to avoid hurting my back (my chiropractor told me about this several years ago).  When I did so, I dropped the back of it on my finger.  I wasn’t happy about that.

I got my ipad with my favorite show Scandal all cued up with my headphones, told the kids not to kill each other while I did what I had to do.  Yea it wasn’t the greatest, but it wasn’t as bad as I had feared.  Funny, how I used to live on that treadmill religiously from 2002 to 2011.  But it’s all good.  I walked the first mile to get reacquainted with walking on a treadmill, then added a little running in 1-2 minute segments.  I don’t know how to manage the intervals just this time.  If I do the Galloway method on the treadmill I may break my neck doing the start and stop every 30 seconds, so I will have to work on an alternate interval cycle.

When I did run on it, it felt weird at first, but I did 1-2 minutes and then walked half of a lap.  For my 5 mile run I plan on going outdoors to get it done after work tomorrow, but depending on how I feel in the morning, I may want to get dressed and do my 5 miles before the kids wake up and I have to start work.  There is some potential to getting it done whatever it takes so I stay on track for my Dopey training.

I hate this time of year.  I hate the dark at night.  I don’t want to be trapped indoors to work out; but I’m proud that I am sticking to it.  Despite my new job and the fact that I can’t run while at work, I’m doing what needs to be done and that’s ok.  I’m also catching up on my shows!