Week 2, Run 1
I woke up early this morning and stumbled blindly out the door in the darkness to head to the gym. It's always surprising to me when I get up super early to see that there are other people out and about doing their business at that hour.
But there they were, young and old, on treadmills and ellipticals and bikes and the weight machines. I planted myself in front of a TV tuned to MSNBC, which I rarely watch, and caught the beginning of Morning Joe. I have to say, watching political commentary makes three miles go by pretty quickly, especially when phrases like "sweeping victory" and "historic landslide" are being thrown around relative to Obama. One pro-McCain former secretary of state was on, saying over and over how Obama is "unknown" ... which reminds me of something I read yesterday. The truth is that he is NOT unknown to anyone who has been paying attention. That is just the way I feel about it. It's easy not to get to know someone you assume is the enemy because you stick your fingers in your ears and assume there's nothing to find out about him worth knowing. But he's been out there, working and writing and being written about for a really long time. He is no great mystery. That his opponents keep trying to shroud him in some veil of secrecy like he is a dangerous, foreign "unknown" is so ludicrous that it's laughable.
Whoops ... this is supposed to be a running blog. Well, this is what I was watching and thinking about while running this morning, and I'd guess people on treadmills all over America this morning were watching and thinking about the same thing, so I guess it's fair game.
This was my first run inside on a treadmill in a while, and here are the pros: you can run on a treadmill when it's dark outside, you can see and set exactly how fast you're going and how far you've run, and you can watch TV. Other than that, I'd pick outside on the road every time.
(This entry was moved over from a separate running blog.)
But there they were, young and old, on treadmills and ellipticals and bikes and the weight machines. I planted myself in front of a TV tuned to MSNBC, which I rarely watch, and caught the beginning of Morning Joe. I have to say, watching political commentary makes three miles go by pretty quickly, especially when phrases like "sweeping victory" and "historic landslide" are being thrown around relative to Obama. One pro-McCain former secretary of state was on, saying over and over how Obama is "unknown" ... which reminds me of something I read yesterday. The truth is that he is NOT unknown to anyone who has been paying attention. That is just the way I feel about it. It's easy not to get to know someone you assume is the enemy because you stick your fingers in your ears and assume there's nothing to find out about him worth knowing. But he's been out there, working and writing and being written about for a really long time. He is no great mystery. That his opponents keep trying to shroud him in some veil of secrecy like he is a dangerous, foreign "unknown" is so ludicrous that it's laughable.
Whoops ... this is supposed to be a running blog. Well, this is what I was watching and thinking about while running this morning, and I'd guess people on treadmills all over America this morning were watching and thinking about the same thing, so I guess it's fair game.
This was my first run inside on a treadmill in a while, and here are the pros: you can run on a treadmill when it's dark outside, you can see and set exactly how fast you're going and how far you've run, and you can watch TV. Other than that, I'd pick outside on the road every time.
(This entry was moved over from a separate running blog.)
posted by eliza @ 7:23 PM
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