What’s up, fellow Obsessives?
I’m back off a week off the grid for a spring break trip with the family in Utah.
If you ever get the chance to put your OTF gains to work climbing the trails of Zion or Bryce Canyon, I highly recommend taking it!
📅 The Week Ahead
Friday — 🔥 Inferno Signature Workout. First time us run-row aficionados are seeing this since the start of last September!
Fear and Respect That Treadmill!
So the treadmill almost took me out a few weeks ago.
I was wrapping up a Tread50 and feeling good about myself. I was about to step off, but I noticed something was wrong. The belt was somehow moving again.
And I mean, really moving.
My sweat towel was draped over the pre-set speed buttons and I had accidentally hit 15 MPH on my way out.
Yes, fifteen miles per hour.
Luckily, I caught myself just in time and stopped the belt before anything bad happened. But not before the guy next to me and my coach saw the whole thing.
“You’re not allowed to hurt yourself on the last class of the day!” my coach joked. “We all want to go home.”
Luckily, it was no harm, no foul. I once saw an accident where someone stepped on the moving treadmill next to them and not only took out their neighbor but someone who had the misfortune of walking behind them at that moment. (Luckily everyone was OK.)
It did get me thinking about treadmill safety and so I came up with a simple reminders:
Make sure you hit the stop button twice: Maybe the phrase most uttered by OTF coaches and I’m assuming it’s for good reason.
Don’t jump the rails: This might be the second. (I bet there’s some entertaining security cam footage from people who didn’t obey this one.)
The emergency stop clip is your friend: I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone attach this to their shirt at OTF, but knocking it off in a panic is always a good option.
Step directly off, not to the side: Your treadmill may be stopped, but your neighbor’s might not be.
Look down before you step back on. Especially after a water break or a floor block. Speeds reset oddly sometimes.
The treadmill quickly becomes the familiar friend of each OTFer, but it deserves a little respect.
Have you ever had a treadmill mishap at OTF? A close call, a full wipeout, or something in between? Respond to this email and tell me what happened.
I promise you're not alone.
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🍊 OTF Obsessed Things
PlayersTrust has a story on Kevin Curtis, a former NFL player who now owns seven OTFs with his wife in the Phoenix area.
Doing the Dri-Tri this month? Here’s last fall’s post containing dri-trip tips from your fellow readers.
A television station in Connecticut did a feature on the Dri-Tri.
🥇 Milestones and PRs!
• Happy birthday and happy 200 to Sara Z., who celebrated both milestones on the same day at the end of March!
“My goal at the beginning of the year had been 200 by Easter,” Sara writes. “So to line it up with March 27 instead was really awesome and I could go back and see that I did 15 classes in March, vs 5 in March 2025. Here’s to Q2!”
A big 🔥 to Sabrina K. for cutting 23 seconds off her one-mile benchmark from January and clocking in at 9:18 for a PR!
And finally a hearty 🙌 to our pal Missy D., who took the top powerwalking spot at her studio with a blazing 6.03!
Have a milestone or PR you want to celebrate? Email me [email protected] to let me know for next week’s newsletter!
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