Treadmills suck

It's been a week since I've updated, but I have a good excuse. SNOWMAGEDDON. SNOWKLAHOMA. SNOWPOCALYPSE. Or whatever "clever" term those good-for-nothing weathermen are calling it these days.


It has, for the most part, kept me from running outside. And that sucks. More than I imagined. I ran last Monday outside before the storm hit. And then it hit and dumped about 10 inches, so I couldn't run Wednesday, as the roads were bad and no local gyms were open. On Thursday, I plopped down $5 to run on a treadmill for 50 minutes. It was then I realized why I never had stuck with running before. Every other time I've started running, it was on a treadmill in a gym. It was pure torture. Awful. Boring. Tedious. If I were a weatherman, I might even say TREADMILLAGEDDON.

Nevertheless, I had to do it again on Saturday. It wasn't any better, even though a basketball game was on the TV they had there. I guess I could just tell I was going nowhere while I was doing it.

Monday, weather was better and the roads were only partially bad, so I decided to run outside. I had to quit 1.1 miles in, as my route was a slush-fest. Water above the ankles is not conducive to running, so I had to give that up. Which brings us to yesterday. As I posted at dailymile: "Sloppy, wet, windy, slushy and so what if I had to run the same stretch of road eight times? MUCH better than running in place on a treadmill. I needed this today!"

But of course we're now in the midst of 8 inches of snow, so it looks like the treadmill again tomorrow. BLARGH.

Here's my last week's worth of food diaries:

Wednesday
Breakfast
1 cup of oatmeal with 11 oz of skim milk

Lunch
Bowl of chili

Dinner
Two double cheeseburgers from McDonald's
One chicken sandwich from McDonald's
Small fries

Snacks
10 saltine crackers

96 oz of water throughout the day

Thursday
Breakfast
1 cup of oatmeal with 11 oz of skim milk

Lunch
2 ham sandwiches
1 can of chicken noodle soup

Dinner
Piece of peanut butter toast

Snacks
8 almonds
8 cashews
5 saltine crackers

96 oz of water throughout the day

Friday
Breakfast
Two-egg omelet with ham and cheese

Lunch
6-inch oven roasted chicken breast sub with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno bread

Dinner

6-inch oven roasted chicken breast sub with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno bread

Snacks
1 nonfat yogurt

96 oz of water throughout the day

Saturday
Lunch
PB&J sandwich
16 oz skim milk

Dinner
Chicken pasta (about 360 calories)

Snacks
Two cups of chex mix
One package of beef jerkey
One bite of ice cream

Sunday
Breakfast
Nonfat yogurt

Lunch
Bowl of turkey chili

Dinner
Two chicken breasts
Three pieces of bacon

Snacks
12 waffle fries
24 tostitos scoops with cheese
5 gingerbread cookies

64 ounces of water throughout the day

Monday
Breakfast
Smoothie
Two egg omelet with ham and cheese

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches

Dinner
Bowl of turkey chili

Snacks
2 nonfat yogurts
5 gingerbread cookies

Tuesday
Breakfast
Smoothie
Two egg omelet with ham and cheese

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches

Dinner
Bowl of turkey chili

Snacks
2 nonfat yogurts

128 ounces of water throughout the day