Discussion: Sorry

Sorry. YMCA "stuff" is not a legitimate workout. We here on a/p are a serious athletic community. We don't accept "stuff" as a workout. What would your coach at Northern have said if you tried to tell him that yesterday you did some "stuff" as a workout?

True, stuff should not be considered a workout....what was I thinking. I know I wimped out on the concept 2 rower. Tried to keep it under 8 min and gave up after a couple of minutes. I did not want to admit defeat on AP, so i just listed it as stuff.
Did you see how much it coast to watch the master golk thing. 7200 dollars...is that right?

The things I like about rowing, are that (1) it is low-impact, and can be done well even with many maladies that make running and other aerobic exercises difficult, (2) you see great improvement from consistent daily workouts, and (3) there is a competition on-line in which you can participate for free.

And until Charlie became injured, it was fun to have a buddy on a/p to compare times and successes with. I think you should get a Concept II for both you and Mary. You'd be beating my times in the first season, which begins May 1.

Yeah we paid hundreds to go over to Medinah last fall and watch the Ryder Cup. A very memorable day. There were so many people that all roads within 5 miles of the country club were closed, and everyone bused in from parking lots at O'Hare. We took a train from downtown and walked from the little Medinah station in the bucolic countryside.

Golf is an expensive sport. Unlike running, biking or XC skiing, you cannot play golf without paying. So the sport attracts people with money, sometimes lots of money. At the same time, there's not many sports where you can stand 5' from the best players in the game and watch them perform your own sport, at levels you never knew existed. Watching it on TV just doesn't have that immediacy or personal contact.

I used to live in the southeast, in Winter Park, Florida. And planning for "Masters Weekend" was a major annual social event even there, hundreds of miles from Augusta, Georgia where the Masters is held. Many people drove up to the Augusta area, watched it on TV, hob-nobbed around town, and partied. You've heard of "Birkie Fever," but you have no idea until you see "Masters Fever....."

I read that Tiger was cheating again ( not on his wife this time), what is that about?

Not exactly. Apparently he came a cropper from mouthing off, not a characteristic behavior on his part.

Yeah...Tiger should have known better. Rule 26 (Water Hazards) says if you lost your ball in a water hazard, with a one-shot penalty you may take a drop:

1. From where your last shot was played, or
2. Any distance behind the water hazard, keeping a straight line between the hole, the point where the ball crossed into the water, and the spot on which the ball is dropped.

Tiger confused 1 and 2, and dropped his ball in a straight line from the hole to a point behind where his last shot was played...which he later admitted after the officials had approved his play. Some sharp-eyed Tiger-hater watching from home on TV, later called in to point out the discrepancy, and Tiger was penalized two more shots the next day.

It was unfortunate since Tiger's approach shot had been dead-on the hole. But instead of hitting the green behind the hole and the spin pulling it back, it hit the stake on the fly and rebounded at 90-degrees, down the hill and into the water. So what should have been a 3-stroke birdie for him, turned into a 7!