In March 1993, a runner I know went to bed one Friday night planning to meet a couple of friends for a long run the next morning. When he woke up, he could barely leave his basement apartment, much less meet his friends—more than two feet of snow had fallen overnight! Being the compulsive sort, this dedicated runner hit the roads anyway and somehow slopped his way around in the blizzard for his daily run. The next day, he did the same. The next day, he had Achilles tendinitis so badly that he was incapacitated for more than a month.
“If only I had a treadmill,” he thought. An increasing number of runners have obviously had similar experiences and thoughts, because since the beginning of the decade, more treadmills have been sold than any other piece of home exercise equipment. The big reason? Convenience.
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