Today was my first day on back treadmill since last year. I used it to rehabilitate after I had surgery in December, but took to the road once I hooked up with Amanda in late January. It's unerving to run in the dark on the trail. I got the treadmill in October of 2004 for that very reason. It's been a life-saver. Winter a.m. running friends are harder to come by. Easier to find the Saturday a.m. kind, harder to find the weekday a.m. kind. Unlike other years, I won't even get a couple more weeks out of daylight savings (it's in November instead of October now). I'll try to keep to the road as much as possible before SGM, but I think once or twice a week might actually be good speed training. Today, it felt good to force myself to run four miles without stopping at a 8:36 pace. It feels like I'm training my cadence and building endurance. I also secretly love the treadmill because it's the ONLY place where I get to watch TV or a movie. So I get Netflix and order up every single movie I haven't had time to watch for the past 3 years. Unfortunately for blogging, my entries may be more like movie reviews than running reports.....But hey, I can let you know which movies to rent. | 