Sarah, just don't forget to wear a helmet when you rollerblade. I also enjoy a good vigorous skate around the neighborhood. But by experience, I can tell you that a helemt can save your noggin. I have split a perfectly good helmet while inline skating. I was just a bit dazed and quite happy it was the helmet that split and not my skull!

Wedntgp, One thing I do to combine useful activity with exercise is to ride my bike to work. Useful and healthy!

Tom

Being a Shriners kid, I am too much of a spaz to feel good on roller blades. Who knows how much practice it would take? However I might enjoy it in time.

With enough practice during cooler weather walking is fun. Gardening is great, but not anabolic or arobic unless the weeds get a big start. I put newspaper down with dirt & peat moss & mulch as a weed barrier so zip - o to most weeds. Eating produce & seeing & smelling flowers is fun not pulling weeds.

Pumping firewood is ok, now if i just had a place to burn it ????? We rent & no fireplace or stove. At Wildwood in the 70's we got to carry big rocks, logs, wood stoves & chest freezers. (Early worlds strongest grass eaters contest roughly called "work").

I had a college room mate in NC that was heavy into grass too, but smoking it & "different" grass too. Not me, him.(pre SDA days). With CP anything that roached cordination was avoided.

Bicycling sounds ok, but the time during work nights ???

Making homemade kimchee & cooking all sorts of quisines in the kitchen, sounds good, but the dangers are obvious.

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Edward F Sutton

Ed,

During the winter months when the days are shorter and I am going at least one way in the dark I use lights, both in front and back. A flashing LED in the back is visible for 2000 ft or so. I have a headlight with a high intensity halgen bulb which lights up th enight quite well. If I mount it a bit high I have had cars flash their lights at me. There are some very good lighting systems with rechargeable battery packs, but they do tend to be pricey.

Tom

Good question Wedntgp! After reading all the responses, I'm ready to go back to my original exercise program, which is not only done on a regular basis, but also serves a useful function. Lifting the TV remote, and regularly depressing the channel changing button, ducking the object thrown by my wife because she didn't want the channel changed at that time, (this exercise is repeated several times each minute - how many reps of this can you other guys do per minute?) and getting up to raid the refrigerator, walking across the room and doing semi deep knee bends sitting back down. Now, can anyone top that for being both regular and useful!!!

Wow! I had a definitive answer to Wedntgp's question, but flood control of a non-existent flood disabled my posting! What's a guy to do? Unless I can reconstruct that definitive response, and decide to take the time to do it again, all of you will have to finish your lifetime without that essential information!

Additional information - after this forum told me that the message would not be posted, and I believed it, and posted this message, when I went back, I see that the original message was posted.

Daryl, have you programed this forum to lie to us?

[This message has been edited by DrD (edited August 10, 2001).]

Dr.D!!!! I've missed you here!!! Your advice is welcome. Of course, I could give you different advice to prevent your wife from throwing things at you..... But that might impede your exercise program!!

My 1/2 hour exercise is expanding my travelling sphere. I find myself going farther from home nowadays, without extending my time out! My husband has given up going with me for the time being so I have been putting a sermon tape into my walk-man and listening to that while I exercise - it is a fantastic way to get a spiritual boost together with a physical one!!!!

Our apartment building pool finally opened this month, and I have made good use of it! Getting back into lap swimming is almost harder than rollerblading!!! I can't believe I use to be able to do that with ease.... Oh well, give me a few months and I'll be back there! Optomism, that's the key! I find that if it is raining and the sidewalks are wet the rollerblades just slip on them, so when it is wet out I put my swimsuit on and hit the pool. So far I haven't had a problem getting the playful people to avoid my small strip so I can do laps. I live with nice people!

Anyway, must get back to work. Keep it up guys, and I look forward to hearing how it is going.

BTW, I think that 330 Miles is around 500 km (I THINK)! I still can't imagine going that far - that's 1/2 to Alberta for me!

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Sarah Moss
Psalms 103 - I am blessed!

If I remember from my high school math, and three years in Deutschland, it is around 1.3km to a mile.

500 km would equal about 384.6 miles.
Not a distance I'll be walking any time soon.

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Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try my reins and my heart. Ps.26:2
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in men.Ps.118:8

Sarah

I'm glad that we both have been able to settle in on exercise programs, however, a couple of things you said trouble me. One, you husband is no longer going out with you and so you listen to sermons. Does that mean you don't listen to sermons when he is with you, and why would he not want to be seen with you, and why do you only listen to sermons when he is not with you?

Second, you said that you live with nice people. Could that be why he is not going out with you? He expects you to live only with him. I hope you can work your way through these troubling experiences.

Silly Dr. D! I only listen to sermon tapes when alone because my wonderful husband likes to talk to me when exercising together!! Can't do that and listen to a tape at the same time. Although, we went together last night and he can't keep up with me anymore! He did more jogging than walking and then was in pain when we got home.... oops.

I meant that the people in my apartment block are nice - not that they live with me personally! Of course, you knew that and just wanted to pull my leg a little bit ...

Do you know, I have lost almost 10 pounds in 2 weeks just by consistent exercise and proper diet? I am very happy (so far) with the results, a little more and I will be 1/2 way to my goal! Yeah!!! And once I've lost what I want to the trick will be to stay in shape....and keep the weight off!

Have a great day everyone!

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Sarah Moss
Psalms 103 - I am blessed!

I attempted to restart a walking, trotting, jogging program, but had to give it up for health reasons. My thighs rubbing together kept setting my spandex walking shorts on fire. Don't know what to try now!