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This coming Saturday will be 11 July 2009. Skylab I tumbled back to Earth thirty years before this coming Saturday. A Minnesota resident by the name of Joan Monson began walking three miles a day exactly fifteen years before this coming Saturday. You read that correctly: This Saturday will mark the fifteenth anniversary of this …
Did you know that your town could use a passport to promote fitness? That is exactly what the town of Webster, New York, has done. No, the town on Lake Ontario does not ask participants to use a U.S. passport. Instead, Webster created its own passport for its walking trails. The concept is simple: You …
You might use or be familiar with the Nike + iPod Sport Kit, which lets you use an iPod nano to track time, distance, pace, and calories burned when running or walking (in Nike or other shoes). This kit also lets you hear real-time, spoken feedback through your iPod nano about your workout milestones. Well, …
How coincidental is this? An article at MedGadget.com that referenced Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” music video appeared yesterday, the same day that Jackson died. The article discussed an IEEE “Presidents’ Change the World” competition award-winner — an electronics-tiled floor that lights up its squares (hence the music-video reference) based on a person’s movements and a …
TourSpot is a relatively new company that delivers walking-tour guides to some large U.S. cities via your cellphone. The company’s software, available initially for the iPhone and eventually for other cellphones, uses GPS technology to identify where you are so that it can tell you where to walk next on your walking tour of a …
Would you pay $55,000 for a treadmill? What if the treadmill maker were to claim that the treadmill enables “people to improve mobility and health, recover from injury and surgery more effectively, overcome medical challenges that limit movement, and enhance physical performance”? That is the claim made by AlterG, Inc., the maker of the $55,000 …
I was reading a story titled “City Park’s walking track one of Valley’s true gems” today at PittsburghLive.com. The story was written by someone promoting the walking track at the city park in Monessen, Pennsylvania. The writer, who was born in 1934, wrote, “I estimate that probably a quarter of the 26,000 miles I’ve walked, …
I just learned about what is called “hut-to-hut hiking” through a USA Today news article. Apparently this has become quite popular in Europe but is just now catching on here in the USA. The concept lets one walk for several days without carrying tents, sleeping bags, cooking gear, and lots of food. How? The “hut” …
What, you ask, is chair-walking? Watch this video to find out: Then tell me whether this is real or a hoax. Please leave your comment here. Thanks!
I saw a story in the news today that made me ask that rhetorical question. It seems that Cirque du Soleil is determined to reclaim a world record related to walking. Stilt-walking, that is. Cirque wants to mark its silver anniversary by having more simultaneous stilt-walkers than any other group. What is the most unusual …