My wife and are currently staying at the Marriott Fallsview in Niagara Falls Canada. Just because I am away from home doesn’t mean my train schedule goes out the window. The hotel does have a fitness room. They have a couple of treadmills, an elliptical, exercise bike, and a weight machine. The treadmill is a Life Fitness, and I think the elliptical trainer is too.
I had never used a treadmill like this before. It had a touch screen, and all kinds of interesting features. It asked my weight, so I typed it in. Pretty soon I was walking, then running. At first I was listening to my mp3 player, but then I realized I could watch TV on the treadmill touch screen. So I unplugged the headphones from my mp3 player, and plugged it into the treadmill. I watched The Simpsons while I ran. Another cool thing was the treadmill picked up the signal from my Polar heart monitor chest strap, and displayed my heart rate on the screen. I had finished the can of Diet Pepsi I had brought down, so I wanted to get some water. I hit stop, and got some water. But apparently hitting stop had reset the TM to the beginning. I had already run 2 ½ miles, so I still had 9 ½ miles to go. I entered all the stuff again, and started running. Another cool thing was I could program several buttons on the screen. I set the “walk” button to 4mph, and the “jog” button to 6mph. I ran for a while longer, and bumped the roped attached to the key thing. The treadmill stopped, and reset to the beginning again. That was annoying. I got everything set up again, and started running again. After running for a while I wanted to get some more water. This time I hit the pause button. I got some water and walked around for a minute. I went to get back on the treadmill, and found that it had timed out or something, and reset yet again to the beginning. Reprogrammed the bloody thing yet again. I think I managed to run 6 miles out of the 12 I had planned on running. I was getting hungry, and started to feel bad that I left my wife up in the hotel room. So I called it a day, and headed back to the room.

Posted by Rob in Running on April 15th, 2007 |