Here's a cool story from England about Super-Fit Mimi Anderson, she's trying to break the female treadmill challenge record by running almost non-stop on a treadmill for 7 days.

In the treadmill challenge video at Kent Online Mimi talks about the difficulties she's encoutering with a stress fracture in her ankle, and the fact the she's only getting about 2 hours of sleep per night.

Her diet for the challenge consists of smash (must be an English food), butter and cheese that she equates to tasting like baby food but gives her the energy to pound out the milage for 20 hours a day.

With any luck, Mimi hopes break this record she needs to run 400 miles, but she is planning to go much further, hoping to break the male record of 517.25 miles.

I hope she can tough it out and reach her goal, but even if she succumbs to her ankle pain or sleep deprivation her efforts are being rewarded by raising money for the Help for Heroes charity that helps the wounded Servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq (very cool).

The first thing I noticed about Super-Fit Mimi's challenge is the treadmill she's running on, which is pretty geeky of me but that's why I write this blog and website.

Did you happen to catch the treadmill manufacturer while watching the video? Think it was a Proform? Maybe a Nordictrack? Perhaps a Weslo?

None of the above. The treadmill she's using is a Star Trac, which should speak volumes to all you considering a cheapy treadmill to run on. If you want to actually run on a machine and get into great shape like Super-Fit Mimi, then make an inestment in a treadmill that won't fall apart in 2 months.

OK, lecture over…enjoy your weekend.