And so I creep (yeah)

I think I came up with the MOST innovative of ideas yesterday. Fact is, my building is about 0.1 miles long, separated into 3 sections by double doors. It is also 6 stories high, and I live on the first floor.

My workout (after my run) was to run/walk/run (the three sections) down one floor, take the stairs to the next level, walk/run/walk down the next floor, stairs up again, run/walk/run, etc. Every other set of stairs I used as an opportunity to stretch my calves and hamstrings. If I hadn’t just come back from a run, I would have run the whole hallways.

Same thing on the way down. When all is said and done, it’s a little over a mile (not including the stairs).

The pros:

• If the weather is crappy, it’s not like I have to wait for a hallway to open up like a treadmill.
• If I hit a stinky patch of hallway, I sprint through (speedwork!)
• It’s safe.
• No hills.
• It couldn’t be any closer, and I’m always less than 0.1 miles from my door (and water/bathroom/etc).
• Stairs=crosstraining!
• When the doors between the sections are open, it looks like The Shining, which scares me, which creates adrenaline and makes me run faster, thus increasing my heart rate.

The cons:

• I feel like I’m creepin’
• No fresh air and nothing to look at.
• The Shining hallway concept FREAKS me out. Like…FREAKS ME OUT.
• If people see me, I have to stop and walk because…well, it’s weird what I’m doing, right?
• Those random smelly hallways are very smelly.

I feel like this is a good alternative to keep things fresh (well, maybe not so fresh in the hallways with my sweaty self running through) or when I just want to do a mile or so, but how long do you think I can keep this up before someone notices? And if they do, is it wrong? I mean, I don’t see any “no running” signs in the hallway…