Super cold today. -10 C at mid afternoon and instead of dancing/skating on ice I went for the treadmill. Let me just say I do not like my treadmill; I have tremendous mental block against my treadmill; I think it is not a very good treadmill; I think all kinds of things about my Ukrainian treadmill. However, it is an absolute necessity if I want to run most of the time. In fact I will have to use it a lot over the next 45-60 days.
Today was 15k on the treadmill and as usual it was extremely slow. In the past I have listened to music, put a towel over the time/distance indicator and just tried to work on my posture and my foot work. Today I tried something different. I watched a movie.
"Everything is Illuminated" is a movie directed by Lieb Schreiber based on a book written by the main character of the movie, Jonathan Safron-Foer. I just finished reading the book so I wanted to watch the movie again anyway. I have now seen the movie 4 times. It was more interesting for me than the last two since I had just finished the book. I now believe the book is more interesting. But if you just watch the movie it too is quite good. The story centers around a New Yorker who goes to Ukraine to find the village where his grandfather was born and moved away from during WWII. It really is a good story, watch it if you get the chance.
Anyway, the movie itself is about 96 minutes. The run itself was rough again, not ragged but mentally rough and I was pleased that I forgot about the time many times because I had a movie to watch. I didn't run very quickly but that might be a good thing because I feel tired and at the same time pleased that I've done 5 15k's in a row now.
I still don't like that treadmill.
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