Sometimes running without going anywhere can be a welcome change. Other times...not so much.
Time: 1:05
Distance: 7 miles
Effort: Easy
Body: Fair
Weather: Indoors
Busy day = post-dinner trip to the rec center's row o' treadmills.
Ran six miles at 1.5 percent grade in 50 minutes. Cooled down with a one-mile powerhike at 14 percent grade. Was really eager to get this one done.
I was one treadmill over from a LOUD TALKER. She was chatting away, LOUDLY, with the guy next to her. Despite three treadmills and all the foot-slapping and machine noise that goes with them, plus the fact I was wearing headphones and blasting Slobberbone, I still couldn't drown out her VOICE. I think she was communicating at some specific sound frequency that can penetrate anything. She may well have been surreptitiously testing a new CIA vocal weapon on us unsuspecting fitness buffs.
Fortunately, she wrapped it up (completed her experiment?) before I did.
Followed up the run with 20 minutes of weight work, most while standing on a Bosu Ball, and then a few planks.
A rockin' gem from Slobberbone:
I suggest aggressive nose blowing.
ReplyDeleteTwo words: hearing test.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course self-awareness is a virtue that is not be taken for granted.
I've had the same experience on 14ers, as in: talking all the way up and down LOUDLY. At least on trails, I can just run faster and escape :)
hahaha. I hear your pain. At least she wasn't just standing on the treadmill (while all the others are in use) talking on her phone, which has happened to me before.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to succumb to any tread mill running this winter, and after reading that I have even further renewed my resolve to live treadmill free...thanks for taking one for the team!
ReplyDeleteGZ - Team Snot rides again!
ReplyDeleteMTR2 - there are some places where silence is specifically appropriate. I know realize treadmill rows is one.
Steve - I would have HAD TO SAY SOMETHING TO HER IF SHE HAD BEEN TALKING THAT LOUD ON THE PHONE!
Aaron - Fight the power!