Topic: Fitness megathread - discuss weight loss, fat loss, working out, etc here!

[kermi3]

I don't think I could if I was lifting. Not unless I had a strong routine. For running though I love it. Running is automatic enough that a book Gives me a story to zone out to. If its an especially good book, my running distances will increase just cause I don't want to stop.

[Govtcheez]

Huh.  Maybe I'll give that a shot.  I've been purposely trying to get away from running with headphones because it's not allowed in lots of bigger races and it makes running on the road a little more dangerous.  The last thing I wanted to do was get up to my higher distances and gotten used to music only to not be able to run with headphones for my marathon.

[kermi3]

I've thought about that for races, but I'm not a racer and I figure if I do, the social aspect of racing will work out in my favor.

[Govtcheez]

You should totally sign up for a 5 or 10K just for the atmosphere.  If you're at all interested in running you'll love it.  There won't be any problem running with an ipod in a casual weekend race, either.

[KnuckleBuckett]

There are rules against ipods?

Da hell?

[Govtcheez]

In some races, yeah. You've got tens of thousands of people jammed together, you don't need any distractions. They're almost always banned for elite runners too, to prevent coaching or other advantages. 

In September I'm doing a run across the Mackinac Bridge and no music devices are allowed because the bridge stays open

[Mike]

Thinking of you Cheez

[Wemboe]

The martial arts gym I go to normally is re-opening within the week so there's that.

[KnuckleBuckett]

The martial arts gym I go to normally is re-opening within the week so there's that.

Re    opening?

[Betazep]

Have a 3000 mile, over 1 year, goal for biking. (Road and off-road on a mountain bike.) Not a New Years resolution as I started on Dec 1. I am a little behind 250 miles I needed in the month of December. Need to make up ground in Jan. 25 days of 15 miles would do it plus give me a good buffer.

I am at a 14-15 mph pace now, so it takes me about an hour to go 15 miles. I have a secondary plan, call it a framework instead of a goal, to do at a minimum one hour of activity every day. Walking, biking, etc is all game.

Using mytracks and Google fit to track both.

That aside, however.... I am just trying to have fun. Have lots of fun and it seems less like excercise and more like adventures.

[Wemboe]

The martial arts gym I go to normally is re-opening within the week so there's that.

Re    opening?

Landlord would consistently not pay power, water and heat bills for the building when the store owner would give him the money. So when it started to get cold and they show up to open the store one day and the power won't turn on, the water isn't running and its as cold outside as it is inside, the owner calls up the landlord, yells a bit, then over the next 30 hours proceeds to move everything out of the gym and finds another location within a week. Weirdly enough, it took them 30 hours to take all the equipment out why the hell has it taken three months to move it back into somewhere?

[Mike]

 Commercial property leases are a bitch.  I imagine they'd need to have their insurance approve the place as well which also increases time.