Have you seen my motivation?

After what's been a way too hot and already seems like forever long summer, I only ran one day last week. Trying to get motivated again, I think I may have found a temporary fix by taking it from the street onto the treadmill the past couple of days. Treadmill running seems to be my best friend these days.....especially now that I'm attempting to start training using a heart monitor. Yesterday at lunch I ran with my Polar monitor for the first time in quite awhile. After running 10 minutes or so on the treadmill, I noticed that the Cybex treadmill picked up my monitor frequency and displayed my HR on the scrolling stats screen. It stayed within a beat of my watch monitor and was usually dead on. I found it much easier to stay below my recovery ceiling both days. I did creep up a little each day and backed off my pace to keep my rate steady. I think the treadmill over the next couple of months will help keep me cool plus establish consistency for my monitor training. I still plan on running my long runs on trails at HSP; we'll see how that goes.