People must think I am crazy

tossedup · 11-22-2005, 04:34 PM

So I have two 15 mintue breaks per day at work. Today I decided I was going to take full advantage of my time and decided to run the stairs which are five flights. I passed the same girl three times huffing and puffing. She must have thought I had stole something and was running away from the building until she saw me running back up the stairs. The look on her face was priceless!! Can you tell I am going stir crazy sitting in my cubicule for eight hours striaght??

I. Kay · 11-22-2005, 04:41 PM

You should have different shirts at either end of the stairs, switch them every so often, and really freak the people out!

Jimbo · 11-22-2005, 04:50 PM

LOL RockH

tossed you may need a different shirt anyways after all that work.

Kevin T. · 11-22-2005, 07:49 PM

Wow, you're crazy.

Terry Monk · 11-22-2005, 08:59 PM

Good job! That's an excellent way to get the body moving!

][P3trarch · 11-22-2005, 11:52 PM

I hope you wear rubber sole shoes

tossedup · 11-23-2005, 10:03 AM

Rock that is a awesome idea. I am going to keep at it a couple of times per week the other days I try and get a good stretch session in. I actually had Timberland boots on. It wasn't to easy or graceful for that matter but it did get my heart pounding!!

laxcdn · 11-23-2005, 10:26 AM

I do that too every once in a while. 6 floors in the hospital and the back stairwell has doors with windows. The patients see someone go up and down a couple times and must think I forgot something

RedLefty · 11-23-2005, 11:06 AM

Tell them it must be a glitch in the Matrix.

Jean-Paul · 11-26-2005, 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by RedLefty:
Tell them it must be a glitch in the Matrix.

LOL!!!!!

Mahler · 11-27-2005, 11:22 AM

Not any stranger than me doing lawnmower HIIT in the summer. Let 'em look. Let 'em think you're crazy. Who do you think will have the last laugh?

Way to go.

Mahler

Marykaa · 11-27-2005, 11:31 AM

MAHLER That sounds like my byfrd! Like most of the neighbors, we have about 33,000 sq feet of property, but we're the only ones not having (and my byfrd just added : "not wanting" )a little Tractor to mow the lawn. He really enjoys mowing the lawn! so that leaves ME the time to go hiking LOL but he's in good a shape as I am.

Do you do anything special to make it more of a workout?

Mahler · 11-27-2005, 03:05 PM

Marykaa,
I mow in a large square. The lawn has a slope so I begin at the top, down and across the bottom and then sprint with the mower up the slope. A great workout. I have an acre and it is so funny watching the guys with a 1/4 or 1/2 acre riding their tractors. It actually takes me less time my way. I also have a neighbor who goes for a jog and then rides his mower. Talk about wasted effort.

Mahler

Big_Shirtless_Ron · 11-27-2005, 08:44 PM

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I also have a neighbor who goes for a jog and then rides his mower. Talk about wasted effort.

Sounds like the people in my neighborhood who use leafblowers to clear their postage stamp sized lawns

Big_Shirtless_Ron · 11-27-2005, 08:44 PM

sorry, double post.

duff beer · 11-27-2005, 11:21 PM

I have gone running and then riden my mower, but my yard is 116' x 629", so I have to use the riding mower or I'd be there all day.

Marykaa · 11-28-2005, 12:53 AM

MAHLER héhé.. a slope would definately do it!! and my byfrd started training just this year.. I'm pretty sure by next summer he'll be ready for HIITs.. LOL love to see the neighbors looks on their faces LOL

tossedup · 11-29-2005, 04:13 PM

Well I guess that settles it we are all crazy!! Or actually the people that look at us like we are crazy are the crazy ones for not doing anything to better themselves!!

Marykaa · 12-03-2005, 02:08 PM

bah.. It's nothing new.. in the early 1970's (before the Montréal Olympics) the people who went jogging outside (including me) were known as those who run in thier pyjamas.. cause sweat-suits weren't wide spread yet!!!

so maybe in a few years.. people all over will be doing HIITs at thier work place or in thier yardwork!

caffer · 12-05-2005, 09:02 AM

Mahler,
Kind of like the people circling the gym parking lot looking for a close space...

I was in Niagara Falls about a month ago for a week on business. The hotel had a very nice exercise room so I would do weights in there but then run the stairs, 18 floors. I never saw anyone while I was running but I did think to myself "people would think I'm crazy if they saw me doing this".

tossedup · 12-08-2005, 11:48 AM

You ought to have seen some of the looks I got today while I was doing my usual break activities up and down the stairs. I was wiped out after my third run up the stairs and was huffing and puffing. I saw this lady I used to work with and she said that walking the stairs must be some hard work in a sarcastic voice. I said walking them?? Try running them!! She looked at me like she had just seen a ghost. Classic!! I went and sat down in the break room before I passed out and one of my coworkers asked if I was alright as I tried to catch my breath. They sat down and ask what I had been doing. I said I just ran up 88 stairs 3 times trying to keep the twinkie fairy away and she actually complimented my desire to exercises even when I am sitting right in front the of vending machine. We talked a little more and I think I might have won her over she looked at the snack machine and then said I will just have coffee today!! Making progress people!!