Another question (sorry!)

[KathyinChips]

Hello fellow Couchers. A question if I may. Yesterday, it was just too wet to go out so I decided to try my first treadmill run at the local gym. I’m up to W8 R3 (again 🙄) and I did the full 28 minutes. So far, all good. The thing is, I got bored because there was nothing to see. I was plugged into a good podcast, but I had nothing to do in terms of dodging pedestrians or cursing an upcoming hill. How do others manage?

[Yesletsgo Administrator]

As I don't have a gym membership I'd take a day off then go tomorrow and do my dodging and cursing as usual

[KathyinChips Graduate in reply to Yesletsgo]

😂

[Week7 Graduate]

If its' not too cold and you run somewhere that does not become too slippery or dangerous when wet I would go out in the rain and run anyway-if you enjoy dodging pedestrians you'll love dodging ( or splashing straight through) puddles and if you like cursing hills you'll love cursing cars that splash you as they go through puddles even more!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Week7]

My idea of fun.... ! Across muddy field tracks even better!

[misswobble Graduate]

I started C25k in winter when some days I had to wait til later in the morning for the trail to de-ice. I bought inexpensive cold wet weather gear so I wouldn’t freeze 🥶

Being cold and wet is bad news though so you can just wait it out or do something else in the gym as cross training

I quickly acclimatised to cold weather though which surprised me greatly 😁

[John_W Graduate]

Do you mean how do we manage using a treadmill or how we manage when the weather is too bad to run outside?

[KathyinChips Graduate in reply to John_W]

Hi, I mean how do you prevent getting bored when using a treadmill. Had some great tips 😀