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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
March 26 - 150 miles so far….
On March 26 I officially hit 150 miles. I know that because the my treadmill gives me warning to lube the treadmill belt at 150 miles. So lets see…. 5 days a week since December 18, amounts to roughly 75 days…. so I am looking at around 2 miles a day. However, I have [...]
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Larry the Repairman
Sorry, it has been a while. Unfortunately I am not always the most prompt blogger. However, on top of my procrastination, the treadmill had broken so I had little chance to use it. I wanted to see what the out come was before I blogged on it. My treadmill started making a dinging noise after [...]
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Performance Report - The first month
It has now been over a month and it is time for a progress report. While I am not tracking my miles. I estimate I am now walking anywhere from 4-5 hours a day (nine hour work day). I started at .7 mph but as of last week I am now going a zippy 1 [...]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Holiday Fitness
Wow, after the holidays and the food I am very happy to get back to my desk/treadmill. How weird is that? I’m sure some of you are thinking “get your ass outdoors” but truth be told, I really don’t like the cold and winter activities don’t do much for me.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Future Tense episode
A very nice American Public Media episode of Future Tense talking about treadmills at the job. The radio show includes an interview of Thomas Niccum, another Minnesota blogging about his treadmill at his work office.Fighting fat by walking while workingListen in RealAudio
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Day 2, 3…
So it has been few days now, still liking it. In fact I have to say it was physically more difficult making the transition from sitting to standing than was the transition from standing to treadmill.My top speed thus far: .7 MPH - speed the Mayo recommends, and I understand why now. The default [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Day 1
Today I started on the treadmill workstation. Some of my observations:
I am grateful for a cube with 10′ high walls. If I had standard cubicle walls my head would be popping over the top like a jack-in-the-box.
While the treadmill is very quiet (surprisingly so), my shoes are not. In preparation I got Rockport shoes, basically [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Coverting Cubicle to Cube 2.0
On a quiet Sunday night I carted in the treadmill and set it up.
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Converting my Cubicle to Cubemill
So now that I have decided to add a treadmill to my cubicle I needed figure out some of the basics, like which treadmill to buy just how to rig this up to work as a functioning workstation. I have seen several ingenious designs and even one sexy commercial one by Steelcase that runs over [...]
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
My dietbolical plain begins….
My reason for this site in the first place is to blog on my attempts to create a treadmill workstation in my cubical at work. I have read blogs about treadmill desks in home offices which I have found quite helpful and inspiring, most notably Jay Buster’s blog Treadmill Desk, however I have not found [...]