tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post5540478322507119049..comments2024-02-06T10:31:24.491-07:00Comments on Watching the World Wake Up: Fit & Stinky – All About Running At WorkWatcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02248341788957416471noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-40753699874347588862010-11-18T05:39:19.139-07:002010-11-18T05:39:19.139-07:00Rabid- "PTA"- I love it! Totally agree t...Rabid- "PTA"- I love it! Totally agree that the whole, ultimate point of running/exercise is to eat without stressing. Though to be clear, I now eat more than just taco salad and tortellini. (I've added <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_6LWjP0sZ22w/Sqg1ex4RhyI/AAAAAAAAF-A/-8HDYHfehWg/s1600-h/Paella%5B4%5D.jpg" rel="nofollow">Paella</a> and <a href="http://watchingtheworldwakeup.blogspot.com/2010/11/berry-go-round-33-is-up.html" rel="nofollow">Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch</a> to my diet.)Watcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02248341788957416471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-58869407031049392372010-11-17T10:24:14.344-07:002010-11-17T10:24:14.344-07:00Great post. Most entertaining and/or informative....Great post. Most entertaining and/or informative. <br /><br />Running is the most convenient and efficient of all exercises for burning calories, hands 'n feet down. Just the other day, in fact, I was talking to a friend about calories. She's a yogini who loves to count calories. Being as she's around 5" tall and 90 pounds, she eats and is able to live on around 1700 calories. I mentioned that I tried eating 1700 calories a day for fun last winter, and nearly passed out mid-day. She got all wide-eyed when I told her that I ate prolly somewhere around 2400 - 2800 a day. Roughly. I don't count, cause, like, duh, that's why I run, so I don't have to count. "No way!" she said and wondered how I don't get fat on 2800 calories a day. So I explained that on average I run 10 miles a day, which burns roughly 1000 calories. Now if I run 1000 calories and only eat 1700, I have 700 little calories to exist on. (Like how I spelled the math out fer ya?!) That's bloody anorexic and counterproductive to any type of performance while pounding the pavement and/or dirt. My metabolic rate is somewhere around 1600 or so, according to the charts; running and 1700 will never fly. She said, "Wow! Why doesn't everyone run?." And I said, "Precisely love. Why <i>doesn't</i> everyone run?" <br /><br />That there is what they mean by having your cake and eating it too. I eat lots of cake. <br /><br />Oh and I call your Howie shower the PTA scrub. Which stands for Pits, Tits 'n Ass. As you can see my version is a bit more thorough than the Howie.Rabidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01910636993163166976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-65138045666579941692009-12-17T22:27:42.827-07:002009-12-17T22:27:42.827-07:00Check out the book Born to Run (McDougall).
A tri...Check out the book Born to Run (McDougall).<br /><br />A trick that has worked for me - baby wipes work pretty well for a non-shower post-run wipedown.<br /><br />- Rainbow SpiritAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-89692717071381635852009-12-17T14:37:11.212-07:002009-12-17T14:37:11.212-07:00So when our species splits into runners (with musc...So when our species splits into runners (with muscular butts and big feet) and non-runners (with fat butts small feet), what other changes can we expect?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-36169209114771631982009-12-16T14:45:33.657-07:002009-12-16T14:45:33.657-07:00Thanks to this post I now feel guilty about dislik...Thanks to this post I now feel guilty about disliking running. It's like I'm slapping Mother Nature in the face.KanyonKrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954169751206336705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-46833305682367021722009-12-15T17:45:30.984-07:002009-12-15T17:45:30.984-07:00Phil O.- The draft for this post had an awesome Mo...Phil O.- The draft for this post had an awesome Mom-Bad-Science-related tangent which I got cold feet about and pulled from the final post but will share when I see you next week.<br /><br />SBJ- The foot thing is weird; I hadn’t heard of that. And yes, we should get out on skis soon.<br /><br />Enel- Right now yes, but with a qualifier: I do the trainer in the AM, then run at lunch. Typical schedule is 40 minutes on trainer, 5 mile run. In the summer I just ride, but the rides are longer- typically 1.5 -2 hours/day, longer on weekends.<br /><br />maggie- there’s no secret or shame here- I’ve always been very up-front about being a <a href="http://watchingtheworldwakeup.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-snow-and-why-am-i-so-cold.html" rel="nofollow">total Cold-Pussy</a>. Otherwise I would’ve emigrated up your way years ago :^)Watcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02248341788957416471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-87717198947438425082009-12-15T17:44:49.835-07:002009-12-15T17:44:49.835-07:00mtb w- the sexual selection thing for height has o...mtb w- the sexual selection thing for height has occurred to me too, though I didn’t mention it in the post because a) I hadn’t researched it and b) as a tall guy I thought such mention might come off as a mite self-congratulatory ;^)<br /><br />The idea though that we evolved to be better runners, but that now modern civilization is pressuring us to evolve into worse runners is fascinating. I’ve wondered the same thing about vision and near-sightedness; is it more prevalent now because there’s no more survival/reproduction cost?<br /><br />There’s also another issue around the height thing: there’s a fair amount of evidence suggesting that people were taller in hunter/gatherer times, and then got shorter with the advent of agriculture, which allowed the same land area to feed a much larger population, but at a poorer level of nutrition. Skeletons seem to suggest this same trend in both Old and New world populations. So the height-trend question is a complicated one.Watcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02248341788957416471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-56663327593417594062009-12-15T17:23:53.530-07:002009-12-15T17:23:53.530-07:00I knew there was a reason I always wanted to be sh...I knew there was a reason I always wanted to be short. Sigh. <br /><br />Anyway, what is this "too cold to ride" nonsense? I don't put the bike away until it's -20C (that's -4F for you 'merkins) and then only if there's been snow recently. Sissy. ;)<br /><br />Really though it's terribly unpleasant riding in slush - if my knees hadn't given up on me a couple of years ago I'd still be a winter runner too. Instead I just pack on the pounds every winter and then drop them in the spring...which is getting harder and harder to do!maggiehttp://giroofasaurus-vexed.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-41675861852416007102009-12-15T13:49:25.210-07:002009-12-15T13:49:25.210-07:00Random thoughts:
Wool is the friend of the fit an...Random thoughts:<br /><br />Wool is the friend of the fit and stinky worker.<br /><br />Watcher: Do you usually ride in the am and then run at lunch????<br /><br />SkiBike: I also noticed my feet "grew" a bit when I took up running in my late 20s.<br /><br />I've read the running adaptation paper before, and you have done a very nice summary of it here.<br /><br />I have always been a little envious of my shorter, faster running/climbing friends. Then I realize they are still short:)Enelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00967981896718833776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-81081575857507396682009-12-15T11:22:28.075-07:002009-12-15T11:22:28.075-07:00BTW, we call it "riding dirty" when you ...BTW, we call it "riding dirty" when you return to work without a shower. Nobody's ever complained about my smell. I've even skied in the morning, gone to work without a shower, gone home, forgotten to shower, skied again the next day, and gone to work without a shower a second day. Again, nobody complained, but Rachel was disgusted when I told her.Ski Bike Junkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12295969126174565599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-39301433300034128992009-12-15T11:18:29.708-07:002009-12-15T11:18:29.708-07:00Thanks for explaining our hairlessness.
I'm ...Thanks for explaining our hairlessness. <br /><br />I'm among the ranks of former runners turned cyclists. Here's an interesting tidbit: when I started running, I wore a size 8.5 or 9, standard width (D) shoe. As I ran, I kept needing to buy bigger shoes until I was buying size 9.5 2E shoes. Then I essentially quit running until starting up (very sporadically) this winter. When I bought new shoes, they were a size 9 D. So my feet got bigger and wider (flattened out) as a result of running, but went back when I wasn't. All the shoes were New Balance SL1 last, so it wasn't a quirk of inconsistent sizing with different brands, either.<br /><br />Now that there's snow, we should get out on a ski tour one of these mornings.Ski Bike Junkiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12295969126174565599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-8002435880254022182009-12-15T08:26:16.637-07:002009-12-15T08:26:16.637-07:00Great post. I ran for one week of my life, at the ...Great post. I ran for one week of my life, at the age of 31. 2 miles a day. After a week, I woke-up one morning to find the tendons around my knees on fire (both legs), making walking itself painful. It took more than a month for them to recover; my brief, glorious running career was over.<br /><br />"God made man, but a monkey supplied the glue!"Phil O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14499273759083108847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-49601478819272990342009-12-15T07:45:57.673-07:002009-12-15T07:45:57.673-07:00Sorry to double post, but the coffee is still kick...Sorry to double post, but the coffee is still kicking in. I just thought about the height/better nutrition idea. While I think that is very true, I wonder about other factors. We have gotten much taller in the last couple hundred years. You only need to go visit old houses from the 1800s or old castles to see the smaller sizes of beds/doorways. <br /><br />However, we have been feeding zoo animals for the last 100 years (I'm ignoring that zoos have been around longer. I am also assuming that zoos got better in the last 100 years of taking care of animals). We certainly must be providing better nutrition to zoo animals but have they grown to the same extent as humans? Will they grown to the same extent as humans over the next 100 years if provided better nutrition? I don't know - just throwing this out there.<br /><br />mtb wAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9199848742267562587.post-40924017170342448932009-12-15T07:37:32.351-07:002009-12-15T07:37:32.351-07:00Very interesting post. I also turned from running...Very interesting post. I also turned from running to cycling after continuing knee issues, albeit I had about a 8 yr gap when I engaged in no sports and my midsection grew accordingly. <br /><br />I've noticed that most endurance runners are shorter and smaller (i.e. less bone density). The taller you are, the more muscle is needed to move the extra weight, which also adds more weight, creating the pounding effect while losing the efficiency you pointed out. <br /><br />So, as we've bettered our nutrition and reduced our reliance on running down animals as we sit on our butts all day, height/bone density is less of a factor in survival today, resulting in taller (and fatter) people. In fact, studies have shown that taller people are deemed more intelligent, handsome (I've never heard women say the phrase - "I want a short and handsome man") and get paid more, which would make those individuals deemed more desirable to mates. So, evolution is still in force today on us hominids, but away from the endurance running athlete. <br /><br />OK, I just rambled on several topics without any point. Too much coffee this morning to think in a straight line.<br /><br />mtb wAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com