Health & Fitness Category Archive
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I'm 29, in Wii years
Monday, July 16, 2007 Post comment
It hasn't become a regular habit yet, but about once every week or two I've been taking the Wii Sports fitness test on my Nintendo Wii.
The game gives you three random (or seemingly random) tests in bowling, tennis, golf or baseball from which it calculates an age for you. Wii Sports tracks it over time showing a graph of your age getting younger or older.
Your scores are tracked for everything in the game, but this is really the best solo-play feature in the game. It is the only game gives you several tests is gives you a graph of your strength in speed, stamina and balance.
Though a missing piece of the games is a way to tell which of the practice games will help improve which skill.
Last time I took the test I was given two baseball tests, my absolute worst of the four sports, and I had dropped from 30 to 79. At the time I was discouraged and started practicing sports here and there, but just never got around to taking another test to bring it back up. After all, I couldn't get any worse. Yesterday, after probably a week or more without having played Wii Sports at all, I got my best score ever. My fitness age is 29, two years younger than my real age, and snapped a photo to prove it.
Riding with Alex
Sunday, July 8, 2007 Post comment
I did end up reading Alex part of the safety speech before we went for a ride yesterday.
It's been more than a year since I lead a training ride and I discovered how much I've missed it. Making another person enjoy getting into cycling is so much more rewarding than just going for a ride. Alex was worried he would slow me down, but I really didn't care as long as we were both having fun.
This was his first time over the Golden Gate Bridge on a bike and we ended up riding 40 miles. Except for the climb back up to The Bridge from Sausalito we didn't do much climbing, exchanging it for distance so he could see more and ride further.
We have rules for a reason
Friday, July 6, 2007 2 comments (latest by Amiee)
Wednesday morning I went for short bike ride, just out to Ocean Beach and back. When I came out of Golden Gate Park just west of the windmill, I got into the left lane so I could ride across to the beach.
Another guy on a bike (I'm not going to use the word cyclist here) came up behind me and when I stopped at the sign he passed me without stopping. The car to my left had already started to pull forward and this guy quickly swerved in front of the driver then back onto the crosswalk where he cut off another cyclist at the corner who fell over when he had to swerve out of the way himself.
The guy just kept on riding without even noticing his trail of destruction, he probably couldn't hear anything over his iPod.
I rode over to the cyclist who'd gone down in case he needed help and he waved me away saying, "I don't need any help, I wouldn't have gone down if it wasn't for your friend." He was OK, so I had to clarify that right away, "He's not my friend. I stopped at the sign."
I'm taking Alex for a Tiberon Loop ride tomorrow and I'm thinking of starting with the AIDS/LifeCycle safety speech, only partially as a joke.