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(Yes that is THE STEP circa 1993)
Mine is maybe 5 years old and looks the same...great for a weight bench, too (and you can get incline riser ends).
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 ••• '08: 1561 ••• '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike ••• '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike ••• '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike
run 750 mi
bike 3500 mi
• more off-road
• gain proficiency @ CX mounts and dismounts (ie stop leap-frogging w/people who ride slower after every obstacle -- finish further up the field)
A Saucy Wench
Well that was freaking easy. I decided since I have been thinking about this for ages I should at least get off my keester and take some measurements and well I should find a board just to get an idea and ...hmmmm what do I have... It fits PERFECTLY, doesnt wiggle at all and has a nice non slip surface. (Yes that is THE STEP circa 1993)
Well that was freaking easy. I decided since I have been thinking about this for ages I should at least get off my keester and take some measurements and well I should find a board just to get an idea and ...hmmmm what do I have...
It fits PERFECTLY, doesnt wiggle at all and has a nice non slip surface. (Yes that is THE STEP circa 1993)
Well after nearly a year I finally got this set up and in use. DH wouldnt let me use his laptop so first I had to get one of those. Then for some odd reason the step wouldnt go on again in a stable fashion. Today I got it on, but clearly not the same way because the laptop pictured above would never fit. However my laptop is a mini and I have now logged nearly a mile while surfing RA and doing some online banking.
Considering I am on orders from the doc to sit as little as possible for my hip and low back injuries...this pretty much rocks.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds" - Captain Hammer
"I don't care how old I live! I just want to be LIVING while I am living - Jack LaLanne. "When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7I failed the 12 minute run at 15...BQ'd at 38
mileage hound
My goal of making the Olympic Trials effectively ended when what started out as a minor hamstring tweak was aggravated by spending 2 days in the car driving 1500 miles. It was not the same for weeks afterwards and screwed my training.
I rarely sit more than 30 minutes at my desk without getting up to do something, even if I have to make up something to give me an excuse to get up. And I still feel tighter from it all.
2012 goals: Fastest race times since 2006.
No offense.
A mini? One of these on your treadmill??
Ultima tastes like failure.
I used to try the "stand up and move around every hour" (or 30 minutes) thing on planes. Turns out, it makes the crew uncomfortable after awhile.
And I will never forget the magazine recommendation (Running Times, of all places, NOT RW) for plane travel... it included the gem that one should jog up and down the aisle. Yeah. You just give that a try. You will learn if Federal Air Marshals are on your flight fairly quickly.
In my made up mental picture, I've always pictured you as sort of a fastidious type of fella....but looking at the background of that photo is setting another picture in place. Hey! is that a Wang VS in the upper left?
Eh, I just swiped that pic from the internet. I do have some experience with circa-1980 TI mini and a bunch of crappy Data General stuff. And ye olde AS/400. Just no pics.
I am a bit more fastidious than the pic, but I'm not Niles Crane.
you betcha...hard wired in now. My treadmill makes my coffee and takes care of my toddler Molly, wherever she may be.
MTA I stood on the flight the entire way from Boston to PDX and there was no complaining from the flight crew. other flight crews have not been so friendly.
My solution:
http://www.geekdesk.com/
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasn't tired and kept running anyway" -- Ennay's 7-year-old daughter
"[...] those who sit the most during the rest of the day have larger waists and worse profiles of blood pressure and blood sugar than those who sit less."
So people who are more sedentary during the day tend to be less healthy than their more active counterparts? Gasp!
MTA: for some reason I keep reading it as "larger wrists" though... Why does sitting at a desk make just my wrists fat?
MTA: its must be that sitting at the desk is making me go blind.
Yes.
That is what makes you go blind.
Yes. That is what makes you go blind.
Large wrists will make me go blind? Now I'm confused.
Heh. Well, depending *how* you acquired the large wrists, perhaps.
Bacon Party!
Have to say I've really been enjoying my standing desk - which is now my full-time work & surf station.
My set-up isn't the best for being able to spread out written material (that I use as reference in my work). But, this affords me the opportunity to take my paperwork to another location for review, then come back to the computer for a focused writing session - IOW, it keeps me moving.
It's all training... 24/7.
Liz
An ultra runner's misadventures in living on the bright side... run what may.
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