Treadmill

Mario bought me a treadmill just after the twins were born. So it's almost 9 years old. Over the last year, it would start shutting off in the middle of our runs. I wanted to trash it before moving this summer but Mario insisted we keep it. I finally got around to researching what I needed to do to fix it. Turns out, we were supposed to lubricate the belt every 6 months. I found nothing about this in the instruction manual. I bought some lubricant and applied it last night.

My friends all wimped out on our morning walk around the lake this morning. So I decided it was a good time to see if the lubrication would really solve my problem with the motor shutting off. I ran two miles straight. To most people, that is nothing. But I haven't run two miles straight in at least 2.5 years due to my knee and hip injuries. So I'm pretty excited to get back to running and I pretty excited that Mario didn't let me throw the treadmill away. I'm going to need it through this Nebraska winter! For $15, I think I fixed our treadmill. Hurray!


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