Comments on: The Grind http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/ a camera, a passport, a ukulele Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:40:22 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: pam http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/comment-page-1/#comment-65841 pam Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:19:31 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/#comment-65841 Wow, you folks are terrifically supportive of my little hamster wheel workout! Now I feel oddly more obligated to stick with it. The deal with Seattle is the combination of cold and wet together. Bleh. Add the dark at four and you're totally motivated to... sit on the couch drinking coffee and eating cake. Wow, you folks are terrifically supportive of my little hamster wheel workout! Now I feel oddly more obligated to stick with it.

The deal with Seattle is the combination of cold and wet together. Bleh. Add the dark at four and you’re totally motivated to… sit on the couch drinking coffee and eating cake.

]]> By: Di http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/comment-page-1/#comment-65793 Di Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:04:49 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/#comment-65793 Happy Birthday ... !!! I like the idea of the machine but we've no where to put one. Gert's signed up for a 10m marathon section with the rest of his office. I said I'd train with him, walking, so as not to upset the knees ... did I mention the weather here. Mmmm but I think, compared to yours, ours is relatively insipid actually. Nothing too raw and natural about Antwerpen ;) Happy Birthday … !!!

I like the idea of the machine but we’ve no where to put one. Gert’s signed up for a 10m marathon section with the rest of his office. I said I’d train with him, walking, so as not to upset the knees … did I mention the weather here. Mmmm but I think, compared to yours, ours is relatively insipid actually. Nothing too raw and natural about Antwerpen ;)

]]> By: Claire Walter http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/comment-page-1/#comment-65788 Claire Walter Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:11:55 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/#comment-65788 Re exercise/walking/etc. I live in Colorado and go for a two-mile walk at 7 a.m every morning w/ a neighbor, year-round. We don't have much rain, and even at Winter Solstice, it's light at that time. And in summer, it's still cool. Otherwise, I'd have a treadmill or an eliptical trainer too -- but I spend so much time indoors that I like the opportunity to get out. Exercise/walking/etc. Part Deux. I maximize those and other walks w/ Nordic Walking poles. Burns 20-45% more calories than pole-less walking at the same speed and for the same distance. I've written a Nordic Walking book (out in spring) and maintain a blog on the topic at http://nordic-walking-blogspot.com. Re travel writing, our 'metier' has taken a bruising lately, thanks to Craig Thompson, who wrote "Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rouge Travel Writer," which has caused quite a stir in travel writer (and other writer) circles. I posted at long item about it at http://travel-babel.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-stirs-up-debate-about-travel.html and highly recommend Rolf Pott's observations at http://www.worldhum.com/books/item/the_trouble_with_smile_when_youre_lying_20080102/ . Be sure to read the comments. Happy Birthday -- and Happy New Year too. Re exercise/walking/etc. I live in Colorado and go for a two-mile walk at 7 a.m every morning w/ a neighbor, year-round. We don’t have much rain, and even at Winter Solstice, it’s light at that time. And in summer, it’s still cool. Otherwise, I’d have a treadmill or an eliptical trainer too — but I spend so much time indoors that I like the opportunity to get out.

Exercise/walking/etc. Part Deux. I maximize those and other walks w/ Nordic Walking poles. Burns 20-45% more calories than pole-less walking at the same speed and for the same distance. I’ve written a Nordic Walking book (out in spring) and maintain a blog on the topic at http://nordic-walking-blogspot.com.

Re travel writing, our ‘metier’ has taken a bruising lately, thanks to Craig Thompson, who wrote “Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rouge Travel Writer,” which has caused quite a stir in travel writer (and other writer) circles. I posted at long item about it at http://travel-babel.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-stirs-up-debate-about-travel.html and highly recommend Rolf Pott’s observations at http://www.worldhum.com/books/item/the_trouble_with_smile_when_youre_lying_20080102/ . Be sure to read the comments.

Happy Birthday — and Happy New Year too.

]]> By: lilalia http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/comment-page-1/#comment-65786 lilalia Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:59:32 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/#comment-65786 Oops, happy birthday wishes to you! Oops, happy birthday wishes to you!

]]> By: lilalia http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/comment-page-1/#comment-65785 lilalia Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:58:34 +0000 http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/01/04/the-grind/#comment-65785 When times were prosperous and I had the money to belong to a gym, I was a treadmill junkie. Love the whole repetitive motion, make up your own landscape (watch television shows) or soundscape (listen to podcasts or music), brain tired, rasta hips moving in rhythm aspects of treadmill. If Seattle is anything like Luebeck, and I suspect it is, there are only two reasons to go out walking: on those rare occasions when the beautiful weather, or in any type of shitty weather if you want to go off on a walkie talkie with a good friend. If you want to walk for exercise or to free up your brain, treadmills rock. When times were prosperous and I had the money to belong to a gym, I was a treadmill junkie. Love the whole repetitive motion, make up your own landscape (watch television shows) or soundscape (listen to podcasts or music), brain tired, rasta hips moving in rhythm aspects of treadmill.

If Seattle is anything like Luebeck, and I suspect it is, there are only two reasons to go out walking: on those rare occasions when the beautiful weather, or in any type of shitty weather if you want to go off on a walkie talkie with a good friend. If you want to walk for exercise or to free up your brain, treadmills rock.

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