Fitness and Weightloss
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@scottalanmiller said:
I walk to get groceries, bakery products, etc. when living in Europe. Hoping that that gets me up and moving a lot more over the next six months.
It's twelve miles to the store,.. and of course twelve back. we go through 3 gallons of milk and other stuff a week.... not something I am doing on foot for bike.
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We have a local store at the end of the street. Milk and eggs would come from there. But for a serious local bakery, I love one about 3km away. Well worth the walk and bread is easy to carry.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver I shoot for twice a week, plus around a local golf course. Goal is usually 12-20km / week.
Hmm... We have a reservoir with some trails around it not too far from my house (~7 miles/11km) walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
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@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
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you hear sounds of clanging and somebody yelling OW! in the background.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
Yeah that is about right.
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
Wow... that's nuts. Is that due to the buildings on the island?
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Yes, it's because the streets were not built for cars but for carts. The houses are very close together and where there aren't houses there are walls, drop offs or one thing or another. Not a lot of spare space and all of the roads are very recent additions.
In the village to the north of us about two kilometers away the main street is so narrow that two cars cannot pass for most of it!
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
Wow... that's nuts. Is that due to the buildings on the island?
It's probably because the roads were laid down for horse drawn buggies.
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@coliver Think about it. The population of the island reaches back to at least 600BC (not looking, just off the top of my head). No cars back then. Small island, decent population, built before cars.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
Wow... that's nuts. Is that due to the buildings on the island?
It's probably because the roads were laid down for horse drawn buggies.
Even predates horses. Would have been donkeys.
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I'm just used to modern US cities, even Boston has enough room in most of its streets to accommodate 1.5 or 2 cars. Although US cities are downright new compared to Crete or most European cities.
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@art_of_shred said:
@coliver Think about it. The population of the island reaches back to at least 600BC (not looking, just off the top of my head). No cars back then. Small island, decent population, built before cars.
It's the oldest civilization point in all of Europe. Super old. A lot of the island's main cities were designed, built and heavily populated between 2000 BC and 1400 BC. The city we are near is a little newer, it wasn't a city in that period, just a fishy village so the streets were probably laid our during the Ancient Greek, Phoenician or Roman times.
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@coliver said:
I'm just used to modern US cities, even Boston has enough room in most of its streets to accommodate 1.5 or 2 cars. Although US cities are downright new compared to Crete or most European cities.
Boston is almost a full 4,000 years news than Knossos.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
I'm just used to modern US cities, even Boston has enough room in most of its streets to accommodate 1.5 or 2 cars. Although US cities are downright new compared to Crete or most European cities.
Boston is almost a full 4,000 years news than Knossos.
No doubt, just boggles the mind to think of living somewhere with that much history.
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The house I am in was build during the first Ottoman Occupation. Since that time this house has been part of Egypt, then Ottoman again, then Greek.
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@scottalanmiller said:
...wasn't a city in that period, just a fishy village ...
Yeah, I always thought there was somethin' weird about that place... -
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
...wasn't a city in that period, just a fishy village ...
Yeah, I always thought there was somethin' weird about that place...Don't be fooled by a crete herring
