Too tired to type this, I am...(yoda-speak).

Yesterday I tried going on the new treadmill at my house--at the insistence of my parents. Well, they didn't insist yesterday, but they'd been insisting all along...

So, I get on the damn thing and it's situated so that it's facing a wall--great view! Fortunately, my parents put a mirror right in front of it, angled slightly, so that it can reflect the TV screen in the opposite corner. Unfortunately, the angle wasn't high enough and so as I was running i had to inch my way down the little conveyer belt thing so that I could see the entire TV screen. I had my glasses on, so I lacked peripheral vision & i decided the stupid thing wasn't going fast enough so I of course increased the speed. In addition to all of these diversions I decided to pick up the kewl hand weight thingys. So there I am, running along, about 2/3rds of the way down the machine trying to watch television, chew on a piece of candy (i found in the room--later discovered my mom had been saving it for a week), lift weights and keep pace without any peripheral vision.

If you know me, you know this has to end in disaster.

Sure enough, one of my feet slams into the side of the treadmill, i trip and jump onto one of the stationary sides, off balance, mind you with the weights still clasped each hand so that I cannot grab onto anything. I then proceed to jump onto the opposite end b/c I am still off balance. After this i trip all over the center of the machine (the moving portion) and wonderfully slide/roll down the conveyer belt squishing my hands between the weights and the sides of the machine i'm desperately trying to hold onto, scraping my knee and getting a rug burn. Just grreeat! My knee ends up the color of the black conveyer belt and it is almost as bad as falling down on the cement outside (in terms of the damage done). Luckily, no one saw, there was just a big bang. When I told my parents what had happened, hoping for a little sympathy (what was i thinking?!?), they burst out laughing. Well, I guess in retrospect it is sorta funny. Except for the pain in my knee...ouch...I think I'll stick to the bikes at RSF.