It would be great to have in Dallas. Here- not so much with the hills. I want one anyway! I would ride it around and around the block.
I saw several people on those when we biked around Coronado Island a couple weeks ago. It’s very flat there, so a perfect place for them. I think there are rentals available - I might need to try one.
The Elliptigo reminds me of another strange sight from a month ago or so. I saw this guy doing the trail on a Segway. Very puzzling…
This model apparently can handle hills:
http://www.elliptigo.com/ElliptiGO-11R
Gertrude, I have seen them there, too! I think there is a rental place on Coronado Island that has them in addition to regular bikes.
Tonight was a gardening night but managed to get in a couple miles to celebrate National Running Day!!!
Yay, abasket! 5 miles is my contribution today. 
Ran my first race in 10 years! 3.3 miles in 27.5 minutes. My regular everyday running pace is around 11 minutes! I feel so happy
Great race, college! Speedy!
Nice run, Bunsen.
Awfully speedy acollegestudent! You seriously knocked 2 minutes off your usual mile? That’s kind of amazing!
Thank you! I did! I used to run cross country. I think my body might be remembering it!
Had to honor running by putting in 5 miles on National Running Day. Anything’ s Possible.
I ran 6.5 miles last night to celebrate National Running Day. Tonight H and I are doing a 1 mile race. It’s a pre-event for a race in November. Last year we ran the half marathon in the November race. This year I am hoping that it will be my first marathon. So I’m excited for tonight’s race, although I have no idea how to run a 1 mile race. I am usually kind of slow to start and then pick up. I’m always afraid if I go out fast I’ll run out of energy and not make it. H is totally the opposite, he always goes out with guns blazing and then struggles at mile 10 or so of a half. But he’ll do great in a 1 mile run!
acollegestudent-wow, great job on your race! That’s really good time to have taken off your usual pace!
Those elliptigos look intriguing. I would love to rent one just to try it out.
Well, I’ve been the driver for my mom’s 83rd birthday upstate NY birthday tour, so I have not been able to run, though we walked a lot. The tour involved hosting her in NY for 4 days, then driving her to Ithaca (one sister) and back to Buffalo (other sister!). I drove back yesterday and will get going again. To be safe and kind to my knees, I think I will repeat the last 2 weeks of C25K, leading up to the final week. Sometimes you just need to deal with life and there’s not as much time for what you want to do for yourself. I think accepting that and being able to get back into a comfortable routine after a week away is a huge step for me…in the past I’d probably have just said, “Oh, well” and continued to be a sloth! Also have to combat the effects of too much wine.
I think that is a perfect plan Runnersmom! Getting back on the horse is the most important thing. It will be good for you to “review” those weeks and then move forward. You’ll be more confident too I think.
C3Baker- In a mile, unfortunately, you have to go out pretty hard and it’s going to hurt. In a track mile (yours is probably road) it’s the 3rd lap that is the hardest. Go out harder than in a 5K and try to hold on!
My worst race EVER was a 2 mile invitational on a 1/2 mile loop- so 4 times around. It was a race for senior executives, and I went out in the lead (all the rest in my heat were guys). I was showing off for my co-workers. Well, I managed to be in oxygen debt by 200 meters and never recovered. It was horrible. I crossed the first 1/2 mile in the lead, and every single guy in the heat passed me over the next 1 1/2 miles. I thought I was going to die. So- don’t go out TOO hard or it will be very, very miserable. At that race of mine, the famous Dr. Cooper watched me finish and said, “I think you should come into the clinic on Monday and we’ll have a look at you!” That’s how bad I looked!
My last couple of years at college, I dated a swimmer who owned a world record for several years. One time I went to a meet, and he began the race in a new world record pace at 50 meters; in fact it was blowing the record out of the water, literally. The crowd was going crazy. Then…oops…started to slow down. By the end of the race, it looked like we were watching a slo mo replay of the race. The world record holder finished dead last in a piddly little college meet against normally far inferior competition. Humbling, to say the least. He admitted he was showing off for me and thought maybe he could at least set a conference record that day, but went out just way too fast.
Thanks for the tips, MOWC. Your 2 mile race sounded awful!
Nrdsb4-I am always in awe of swimmers, that seems like such challenging exercise. Pretty cool you dated a world record holder!
3 miles today, my shin splints seem to be finally getting better. Of course as soon as I say that, they get worse.
I’ll be trying to figure out who that world record holder swimmer Nrdsb4 went out with… 
C3Baker - as with any race, the warmup is critical, especially with the mile. I would run an easy 1/2 mile a half hour before the race and then 15 minutes before the race do 5 50 meter strides.
I knew a small handful of world record holders back in the day. But if you do, please keep it to yourself. Thanks. 
DH still gets irritable about that…calls him “the big oaf.” LOL.