Winter is here!
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shirt said:
7-8mths in my book!
buying a treader this week to get fit this winter, might try my hand at sailing and hope to make the clay shooting a regular thing.
hope everyone is in good spirits and all your toys are in fine fettle for the season
Get a personal trainer Shirt. I did six months ago and haven't looked back. Doing circuit training 3 times a week, managed to shed 10KG in the last 6 months exercising and eating well. I tried the gym on my own routine for years and failed miserably. buying a treader this week to get fit this winter, might try my hand at sailing and hope to make the clay shooting a regular thing.
hope everyone is in good spirits and all your toys are in fine fettle for the season
Happy to pass you his details. Super guy, from New York.
Sailing sounds a treat - used to be quite the dab hand in my teens! Anyone know how to get into it here?
The fitness/weight/training thing is on my mind also as I had cause to visit the doctor last night and I am heavier than I've ever been, whereas my wife - who gave birth just nine months ago - is lighter than she was on our wedding day!
The fitness/weight/training thing is on my mind also as I had cause to visit the doctor last night and I am heavier than I've ever been, whereas my wife - who gave birth just nine months ago - is lighter than she was on our wedding day!
shirt said:
buying a treader this week to get fit this winter . . . am a tight yorkshireman so paying someone to do waht i should be able to myself is a bugbear.
In that case, definitely don't buy a treadmill. It's utterly boring and is apparently no good for your joints. Much better to get out in the fresh air and go jogging around the marina for free. There's no traffic, the views aren't bad and there's any number of routes to choose from depending on which bridges you use, starting from about 3km up to 9km (or multiples thereof) for the full loop at promenade level. Best time is just before sunset when the heat has gone out of the sun but before it gets too humid. Unless you want to get up at sunrise.shirt said:
currently looking on dubizzle for a decent mountain bike.
Great idea. I've been mountain biking up at Musandam and it was fantastic. If you're just looking to use it for exercise, there are some reasonable traffic-free roads nearby if you know where to go. Or, if you dare show up on a pushbike, you can do laps of the autodrome for free on a Wednesday night. But I'm sure you knew that.Learn to swim. It's the ultimate all-round exercise and it's free. There are any amount of decent pools in Dubai and you can do it all year round regardless of the weather. It might also prove handy if the sailing doesn't go quite as planned.
Then put it all together in reverse order and you'll be the next Jenson Button.
treader = pushbike. i'm trying to void running for a while as i find it boring as hell and hard work after a period of no exercise. playing 5-a-side every thursday for 90mins is my high impact session [bloody knackering but good fun].
i hear there are some good bike routes out around the ranches and there's a 10km loop around emirates hills. also the palm makes a good road route.
aim is to have all the shirts in my wardrobe fitting properly by summer and not straining under the flab!
looked at DOSC website earlier. lessons are cheaper if you're a member but to become one you need to be nominated/seconded and there's waiting list! i think my departmental director is a member so i'll ask him.
what are everyone else's winter plans? my PH ambitions are to get out in the dunes more, do every trackday i can and find a cheap lockup to rent.
i hear there are some good bike routes out around the ranches and there's a 10km loop around emirates hills. also the palm makes a good road route.
aim is to have all the shirts in my wardrobe fitting properly by summer and not straining under the flab!
looked at DOSC website earlier. lessons are cheaper if you're a member but to become one you need to be nominated/seconded and there's waiting list! i think my departmental director is a member so i'll ask him.
what are everyone else's winter plans? my PH ambitions are to get out in the dunes more, do every trackday i can and find a cheap lockup to rent.
Bike around the Marina is the answer - each side of the Marina is around 4-5km, so dependant on how energetic you're feeling you can easily rack up a decent stint. I've been easing myself back into it over the past few weeks after tripping over the bike every day throughout summer.
The flyover to Media City is a good leg burner and you can get a decent lick on the access road to FlyDubai. Don't bother running down the JBR front - those brick speedbumps are a pain in the arse (literally).
Next step for me is to tie the bike onto the back of the Wrangler and head down to the Nad Al Sheba cyclepark. It's the old camel track situated between Al Khail and Meydan. It has 4/6/8km fully tarmacced loops, is fully lit at night, has changing rooms etc. Plus the added bonus is that it's free - someone with a decent chunk of Wasta must have persuaded Shk Mo to give it up for the community.
The flyover to Media City is a good leg burner and you can get a decent lick on the access road to FlyDubai. Don't bother running down the JBR front - those brick speedbumps are a pain in the arse (literally).
Next step for me is to tie the bike onto the back of the Wrangler and head down to the Nad Al Sheba cyclepark. It's the old camel track situated between Al Khail and Meydan. It has 4/6/8km fully tarmacced loops, is fully lit at night, has changing rooms etc. Plus the added bonus is that it's free - someone with a decent chunk of Wasta must have persuaded Shk Mo to give it up for the community.
When it stays below 35C during the day and the humidity drops - then its winter. It's still hitting 40C and I can attest that after yesterday's jumping in and out of the car for meetings all day, it's still way too hot to be classed as anything other than uncomfortable.
Hopefully in the next few weeks things will drop off.
Hopefully in the next few weeks things will drop off.
Asterix said:
When it stays below 35C during the day and the humidity drops - then its winter. It's still hitting 40C and I can attest that after yesterday's jumping in and out of the car for meetings all day, it's still way too hot to be classed as anything other than uncomfortable.
Hopefully in the next few weeks things will drop off.
Living on a building site as I do, I fully concur- its still too hot to do anything, although I am looking at booking a load of shooting sessions soon, just to give me something to do away from work.Hopefully in the next few weeks things will drop off.
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