By Dorothy Beal//Active.com
No single word in a runner’s vocabulary ignites a debate so fierce as
“treadmill.” In fact, the treadmill’s origins really can be traced
back to torture, with its earliest form used at penitentiaries in the
19th century to reform stubborn convicts. One prison guard described
it thusly: “It is the monotonous steadiness, and not its severity,
which constitutes its terror.” (We couldn’t agree more.)
But while
runners have plenty of derogatory terms for the apparatus (“hamster
wheel” and “dreadmill,” to name just a few), it’s hard to argue
against its usefulness. Whether you can’t get a babysitter or the
weather suddenly resembles an Arctic tundra, the treadmill saves you
from writing “unplanned rest day” in your running log—and, for that,
we are grateful. In any case, our inner dialogue upon approaching the
treadmill goes a little something like this...(link)
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