I’m currently in Munich on business.  In the hotel, the machines in the fitness center are from a company called LifeFitness. There is a stationary bike, a couple of treadmills and a couple of elliptical machines. They all have a cool virtual reality feature. They have the ability to select courses.

I did this yesterday and had a lovely run through Aukland, New Zealand, and then ellipticalled through Yosemite. Today, I rode my bike through Paris and Reims, and then ellipticalled through the Sierra Nevada. On the treadmill, the intensity was good because you could pick your pace and average incline. On the elliptical and the stationary bike it seems that the level settings are a bit too easy. I kept increasing the level, but then the machine would reset it back down at every “scene” transition. It’s a real pity because I was really enjoying the scenery, I would have liked to have gotten a better workout while doing it.

At any rate, it was 70′ of base work, more useful than sitting around and surfing the web.

Tomorrow: I think I will do some interval work on the treadmill. Not sure how well that will go, but I’ll give it a try. Maybe a 8×500 if I can figure out how to program the machine to do that.