apparently, the mall frowns upon people running/jogging there. i guess it's a liability issue. so now i'm trying to find another place that we can jog indoors. i think i'm going to have to join a gym....i don't have room in my house for a treadmill or something like that, and i don't have the money to buy a decent one anyway.
i kind of don't want to join a gym. when i have in the past, the times i'm most likely to go seem to end up being their busy time. and i really want to RUN....but i'm self conscious about all the noise i make running on a treadmill. and while the idea of "someone seeing me" work out - which i know is a big issue for a lot of overweight folks - doesn't really bother me, the idea of a whole bunch of someones does. and if i have to wait for a machine to be free, i lose momentum and usually end up cutting my work-out short. which doesn't help anything.
i'm seriously leaning towards continuing to walk at the mall like three days a week and then trying to c25k program again in the spring. i mean, there's the track at the civic center that's a full mile - and it's really a pretty nice, central location. it'll be awesome when the weather is nice. and, according to route builder the "block" i live on is half a mile around, so it could be an alright place to do my workouts when my partners in crime aren't up for it. i think i'm going to start walking outside some when the weather is half-way decent now.
i need to do something to keep from gaining all winter.
Well dearie, you can always bypass the treadmills for the ellipticals, they make no noise, and are less stressful on your joints anyways, low impact and all that jazz.
ReplyDeletethe body mechanics of running on an elliptical is a lot different than the mechanics of actually running tho. i mean, i can "run" on an elliptical for like half an hour now. but, as you've seen, i can't actually run for even five minutes. :( elliptical training will never get me to being able to run a 5k....probably not even to being able to run around the block.
ReplyDeleteIf you can find the space, craigslist always has treadmills for dirt cheap or even free. Among other equipment! I feel your pain though - running in the cold is not very fun. But maybe you could invest in some good cold weather gear to make it more tolerable? No matter how cold it is, once you get out there and get warmed up, it's usually fine. Just hang in there and do what you can!! I'm rooting for you :)
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