I hate running on a treadmill. I’ve done so 3 times this week… with one more planned for tomorrow morning. My only treadmill running has been when I’m traveling for business… usually I don’t know a good route or areas I should avoid so I just run on the mill.

Here is why I think the Dreadmill sucks.

1. Booooooring. Nothing to see, even if there is a TV who wants to watch the same highlights on sports centre over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?
2. Hot. More often than not there is no way to control the temperature.
3. Too easy to give up. You haven’t really gone anywhere so you can just stop and go back to your room. If you are outside and are 3 miles away from home you really don’t have many choices other than run your fat ass home.
4. Its like cheating. I fell that I can “run” faster on the mill because it basically drags you along. Just lift your foot and place it back down.. as long as you don’ t fall off you are “running”
5. My Garmin is pretty much useless inside on a treadmill
6. No matter how fast you go its impossible to drop the guy next to you.
7. Dry air inside makes you feel like Derek Zoolander when he had the black lung.
   
8. If you are not paying attention you can fall off the machine… I almost did this today.
9. There is a 98% chance that the room smells like sweaty crotch.
10. Can’t map my run on RunningAhead… its no fun when you are going nowhere.

Lets just say I’m really looking forward to 10 miles around the Danforth to Leaside and back on Saturday.