Forum Overview :: Rants :: Are you fucking with me, or perhaps these distinctions are academic?

[quote name="Zsenitan"][quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="Zsenitan"]Biking is more fun than running. Sorry. I can go on a 20 or 30 mile ride every weekend without being the least beat up, and see all kinds of lovely scenery, and still get home in time for my five cake dinner.[/quote] Biking is more fun.[/quote] You should have stopped there. [quote][quote]Preparing for a 26 mile run, however, appears to be quite taxing, and then actually doing it is sufficient to make a dude pee himself. PASS.[/quote] A 26 mile run! Why does everything have to be extreme? [/quote] Because biking means that you can make a 26 mile commute on a daily basis. It's not only fun, it's practical. I find your whole line of exercise efficiency argument irritating for a number of reasons, and this is one of them. [quote]LOL @ 3 hours of biking. I'm saying it's inefficient exercise, and people doing it for 3 hours proves my point. If you're good at squats, no one in the gym suggests you should do squats for 3 hours. [/quote] No, when you're good at squats, people suggest you lift more. ASK ME HOW I KNOW. The metric for excellence is max weight. Unlike squats, but indeed like running, the challenge is to endure, and the metric for excellence is speed over an extended amount of time. It's easy enough to do it for a little while, especially on nice level paved ground, especially when you are a tiny little running man! Also you're still getting passed, which makes me wonder what you mean by having to go a million miles an hour. By "a million" do you possibly mean "12 to 14"? I guess I can see where you're coming from on the efficiency of exercise thing, but I can't go there with you. Strap an orcfatty pack to your pack and start putting in the miles on hilly routes to get the Zseni sweat experience. The roundtrip to my mother's house, which I will ride every other week, is 46 miles (stop for fried chicken in the middle, like I do), ~2000 feet of climb, and well I'll just be a little evasive here but estimate that you would need a 100+ pound pack to compensate for your runty elfin figure. I can't run with my kind of love handles! I'd need an ass bra <i>and titanium ankles</i>. How cruel you are to suggest that there's something unworthy about putting that kind of meat in motion for hours at a time. I'm taking it personally, Fussbett! I'm taking is personally.[/quote]