Actually, I got it in my head to walk TO the mall, which made me a highway walker. Not the best of ideas given the heavy traffic on this holiday weekend. Talk about a scary Halloween! The holiday of which I speak is known here as Fiestang Patay, or All Souls Day. It is the traditional day to visit the graves of loved ones, but from the looks of the hotel parking lots, a lot of people are spending the weekend at the beach.
Anyway, It was only a little over 6K from my door to the mall entrance. When I arrived I realized that I had forgotten to bring something very important!
I wasn’t sure the face shield rule was still in force, but the guard at the door told me “no shield, no entry”. Where can I buy a shield, I asked. “Inside. But you can’t enter without a shield.” Alrighty then. I walked across the street to the 7/11 but they were sold out of shields. I circled the mall to the backside entrance and there the enterprising guard was selling shields for 30 pesos each. I bought the one pictured above from him.
Having gained the coveted mall access, I commenced shopping. I didn’t need much, but what I needed isn’t available in Barretto proper. I wound up having a pretty successful go of it, getting most of what I came for.
Harbor Point mall is just a shell of its former pre-pandemic self. I’d estimate that over a third of the stores have closed. I had planned on treating myself to an overpriced TGI Friday’s lunch but was surprised to see they were no longer in business. The same with a couple of other places I used to like to eat at. Oh well, the Burger King was open and it has been a while since I’ve enjoyed a Whopper. Except they only had one counter open during lunch hour and the line was long. Fuck that! I walked around a bit more and came to this place:
I ordered the Super Burger with cheese. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this”
Oh, well. That’s the way it goes. Took a cab back home and now I can prepare for a Halloween night on the town. I did that photo every 1000 steps thingy, and here they are:
I did take a couple of pictures out of sequence along the way. Some roadside artworks…murals painted on the retaining wall.
And you can Relive it here:
That’s pretty much my day so far. Had a great chat with Pearl again this morning. I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but damn, maybe there will be love in my future after all.
Let me leave you with a laugh:
Thought I left a comment here, but maybe I passed the wrong button.
PRESSED the wrong button.
Damn auto-correct.
Kevin, you left your comment intended for this post on the preceding Rosies bar review post. I responded there.
I wonder how fitness trackers calculate calories. I run (no pun intended) into the same issue.
When I look on the internet, most sites seem to agree that a person will burn around 110 cal/km.
I dont nomally use a fitness app, but when I do, it seems to give a reading more in line with what you show above – i.e. ~ 160-170 cal/km, which is about a 50% increase.
I dont really track calories so not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but dont understand the discrepancy.
I hadn’t noticed that, Brian. I do not count calories either and actually have no clue how the app does the calculations. I actually just look for consistency in the stats, and I seem to get that with things like number of steps taken or floors climbed. Maybe Kevin Kim will chime in with more info, he’s the master of caloric ins and outs…
You guys’ calorie counters are pretty generous. I use MyFitnessPal to track my calories. I can’t vouch for how accurate it is, but it’s a bit strict. If I walk 140 minutes (around 11 or 12K distance), I get a result of 781 calories burned. That’s around 68 calories per kilometer, or 102 calories per mile, which is close to what I’ve heard: a hundred-ish calories per mile walked or jogged.
On the path I walk to Bundang, there are spray-painted distance markers on the ground that also list calories burned, and these markers indicate that you burn only 50 calories per kilometer. That sounds unnaturally round-numbered yet fairly realistic to me.
To burn a ton of calories in a short time, you have to engage in intense cardio exercise, like jumping rope. This source suggests you can burn over 300 calories by swimming a kilometer (or about 480 calories per mile). That also makes sense, given that swimming is a whole-body exercise.
Meanwhile, for those of us who prefer to live life at an easier pace, walking seems to work best. Stair-climbing, alas, doesn’t seem to burn too many calories, despite being intense. A building in Yeouido, where I used to work, had a sign saying you can burn about 2 calories per floor climbed. For me, then, climbing 26 floors would mean only about 52 calories.
Anyway, that’s the view from my corner.
Good stuff, Kev. That’s the problem and/or the motivation: after walking 10K do you really want or need that bowl of ice cream that undoes all the good you’ve achieved? When I was seriously dieting, that’s how I talked myself out of the sweet treats.
Thanks Kevin. Makes sense and the numbers you quote seem to be in line with reality.
I have heard rowing is a great calorie burner (and whole body workout). I have an indoor rower that I use pretty frequently. I will have to closer monitor the calories burned indicator to see what that says.
Brian,
I enjoy rowing machines when I have access to them. If I were to install some sort of cardio-related exercise equipment in my residence, it would undoubtedly be a rowing machine—a decent one with a stable seat, a good track to slide on, and a heavy flywheel to make each stroke of the “oars” an effort. Maybe like this one.
My next-favorite piece of cardio equipment would be an elliptical, which also engages the arms, even if it doesn’t really help you burn many more calories than if you were walking (only about 16% more). I can at least pretend to be cross-country skiing.