The Runner's Track

June wrote: colorofmoney91 wrote: I need a nice road bike, and a treadmill for rainy days. Me too. Actually, I need money first

Equality 7-2521 wrote: TheGazzardian wrote: I'm not a runner but I am a biker. The most I've done in a day is 12 hours (including breaks) which was probably close to 100KM.  I try to go out as much as possible and am lucky to live in a city where bike paths are plentiful and there are lots of places to lock your bikes downtown. Had a meeting downtown last week, biked there, got to follow a beautiful river and go along the reservoir with a great view of the mountains in the distance. Got downtown with only a small amount of city biking, locked up, cleaned up, had the meeting, biked home. Over 30km all said and done, in just over two hours. Very tiring though if you have to go to work when you get back home.  I'm doing a 85.2 mile (137  KM) ride this summer. I'm pumped.

June wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: I spent 20 mins on the rowing machine today, that thing sorts the men from the boys. I was at karate tonight getting punched and punching, does that sort the women from the girls? Actually, we did have to do "hindu" push-ups, which was a first for me. Lots of fun. He called it "Japanese" push-ups though, and when I googled them, I found this, and it looks like some crazy insane (if not inane) sh*t, if you ask me...

What Any Colour You Like should have said wrote: I spent 20 mins on the rowing machine today, that thing sorts the men from the boys and the women from the girls.

June wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: I spent 20 mins on the rowing machine today, that thing sorts the men from the boys. I was at karate tonight getting punched and punching, does that sort the women from the girls? Actually, we did have to do "hindu" push-ups, which was a first for me. Lots of fun. He called it "Japanese" push-ups though, and when I googled them, I found this, and it looks like some crazy insane (if not inane) sh*t, if you ask me...

TheGazzardian wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: TheGazzardian wrote: I'm not a runner but I am a biker. The most I've done in a day is 12 hours (including breaks) which was probably close to 100KM.  I try to go out as much as possible and am lucky to live in a city where bike paths are plentiful and there are lots of places to lock your bikes downtown. Had a meeting downtown last week, biked there, got to follow a beautiful river and go along the reservoir with a great view of the mountains in the distance. Got downtown with only a small amount of city biking, locked up, cleaned up, had the meeting, biked home. Over 30km all said and done, in just over two hours. Very tiring though if you have to go to work when you get back home.  I'm doing a 85.2 mile (137  KM) ride this summer. I'm pumped. Kick-ass! What's the ride?

It's the called  the Toure De Shore. The ride itself is like 62 miles I think, but I'm going a little further myself. It basically takes you from my city to a vacation spot.

Just about to head off for my usual run, but I've been wondering...

What makes you run?

Personally, I never was athletic, but when things started getting rocky with my ex (a b*****d: he didn't like prog ), I started going on long walks just to get the heck out of the house, and the person that supported me the most throughout the ordeal happened to be a jogger (and a shotokan black belt, so it's also I got interested in it too, except I do kyokushin karate) who had been through the exact same thing, the same process.

At some point during those walks, I started jogging a bit, then a bit more, and I thing I became I full on jogger a year and a half ago, I guess.

I never set out on any particular goal, except perhaps mental health, and at this point, after 2-3- days of not exercising, I become moody, somewhat depressed too. I've been wondering if other people feel like that without exercise.

June wrote: Just about to head off for my usual run, but I've been wondering... What makes you run?

I should resume jogging, really. Should have done that since April, even with a more capricious weather than expected, but I've experienced bad health. Surprisingly, if last fall I struggled to drop under 90 kilos, with all the months of hiatus I somehow lost even more, now at around 83-84.

Jogging would still mean running half an hour around the block, nothing more.


Edited by Ricochet - May 22 2011 at 15:12

Must be the shirts or large T-s. My bacon belly would be, otherwise, visible.

Winds can be a bitch, yeah. I guess it's good training. Hard to breath though, I'm sure there's some kind of trick or something.

Haven't been able to jog longer than 4k myself (well, I guess I could have, but I'm being anal about my routes) since my long route is still totally flooded.

Speaking of good songs, not prog, but I was just telling a friend on FB that Patti Smith's Free Money worked really good. Especially for sprints.