skibigsky's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not the sharpest stick in the pit.... Proof, yet again, that having a Ph.D. doesn’t actually translate into any intelligence, practical, or otherwise. I was on the treadmill today (autocross is fun, but not quite as conducive to being lean and sleek, as say, bicycle racing… but Oh So Much safer… anyhoo), and I’ll admit, I haven’t used the treadmill much since we got it. We picked it up from a gym going out of sale, and even with the motor and parts being completely gone through, paid next to nothing for it. So, I get on today, and scroll down to the 5 mile program. You pick the maximum grade you want (it sets up random ‘rolling hills’) and your speed. Fine. I turn on the music, and start plodding away. After a while, I look down at the screen. On the bottom of the screen, underneath the LCD, printed on the plastic frame are numbers, that typically represent time. The blinking light on the LCD corresponds to the amount of time you have been working out. Unless you are doing a distance program, and not a timed program. Dumbass. So I look down, and the light is flashing at 20 (the lights go out to 35), and I’m thinking, “This has got to be the longest 20 minutes of my life; I know I’m not in the best shape in the world, but this seems REALLY long.” But I keep plodding along, not noticing that when I crank up the speed, the ‘time’ goes faster. Only as I get to the end of the workout, and the clock flashes 52 minutes (look, I said I was plodding, right?!?), do I realize that the little blinking light has NOTHING to do with time, and is merely a visual representation of how far into the 5 miles you are. Dumbass. Heh. At least I got my 5 miles in. http://results.utahscca.com/solo/results/2007/2007-10-21_event20_mmp_raw.htm 6:19 p.m. - 24 October 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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