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Holy hell. I did 20 miles yesterday. It was hell – for a couple of reasons (besides the obvious).

I thought that Hurricane Ike was going to dump on Austin this past weekend. Everyone did. So instead of waking up super early on Saturday to do my horrendous run, I decided I would sleep in and wait it out. Unfortunately, it was merely windy out Saturday by the time I got my arse outta bed. I decided I would wait until Sunday to do the run.

Sunday came, and it was hot. The “keep me in bed” bug had bitten me once again Sunday morning. It was nearly 10:30 by the time I dragged myself out of bed again. 10:30am in Texas is already hot, and I figured I would give myself a break on the ol’ legs and do the run on a treadmill.

I got my stuff ready and headed out to my gym. Luckily football games had already started so I thought I would be OK watching football on TV for that long period of time. Nope.

First off, doing anything for 3.5 hours is monotonous at best. Running inside on a treadmill for 3.5 hours is pretty much the most boring thing I have ever done. Sure, I got to watch the Colts overcome a first half beating against the Vikings. But seriously, running in place…. FOR 3.5 HOURS? Jesus.

Needless to say, I will not be doing any long runs inside anymore. I would imagine that running in the worst weather, at the worst time would still be better than running inside for more than 1 hr.

You live, you learn – you don’t run long runs inside on a treadmill. Now I know!