Top 5 inspirational songs/songs that get you going/make you want to DO SOMETHING!!!
I’ll have a real post this weekend. I’m writing my annual letter to myself this weekend, and it seemed like a good time to start posting again.
Daily Archive for January 17th, 2008
Funny thing #1:
Posted January 11, 2008 on http://www.engrish.com/
Funny thing #2:
Father buying lightsaber: Just drop it! He wanted this one!
Mother: But it’s the dark side! You’re not supposed to join the dark side!
–Toys “R” Us
Posted January 17, 2008 on http://www.overheardinnewyork.com
Well, okay, it wasn’t absolute zero. But a nice -7°F (windchill) seems like a good time to start running again. They’re predicting a perfect running weather of sunny and -1°F (without windchill) for Saturday. Yup, seems like a really good time for me to start running, again.
My knee has been a bit wonkey ever since my little biking incident. No pain at this point, but it just feels off. So I may as well run.
Oh, and here’s a little gem on cold weather exercise. Think it is bad for you? Bollux!
Read on…
Too Cold to Exercise? Try Another Excuse
By GINA KOLATAJULIA HENSLEY, a 41-year-old artist, got a taste of bitter cold a decade ago when she spent a winter living on a glacier near Seward, Alaska. Typical winter temperatures were 10 to 15 degrees below.
“The first time it got really cold, I was scared of it,” Ms. Hensley said. “My instinct was to get a stack of books and curl up beside the wood stove.”
But a boyfriend persuaded her to go out anyway, to cross-country ski or snowshoe for hours in deep snow. He taught her, she said, that as long as she kept moving, she would be fine.
It was a conclusion - that extreme cold can be safe for exercisers - that runs contrary to conventional wisdom. But in fact, said John W. Castellani, an exercise physiologist at the Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, it turns out that even though cold can be frightening, more people are injured exercising in the heat than exercising in the cold. (emphasis Lumpy’s)
