OneAndOneIs2

Tue, May 08, 2007

Million-dollar idea?

Many people want to lose weight and get fitter.

Many people commute to their place of work on trains.

Many people who want to exercise thus spend hours every week sitting around with nothing to do.

Solution: Put extra carriages on trains and fit them out as gyms - a few jogging &rowing machines is about all you'd really need.

Hundreds/thousands of commuters get more exercise, train companies make more money, and they free up a few seats on the train as well. Plus people get to claim "I jogged from London to Birmingham yesterday"

Everybody who's heard this has said "What a great idea! I'd use it!" so there's clearly a market there.

So there you go, British Rail. Don't say I never did anything for you.

6 comments • Categories: Omni, Health

Comments:

Comment from: David Desautel [Visitor]

· http://www.boomer-blog-com/

Hmm...

Would there have to be showers as well. I know that when I exercise, it takes hours for me to stop sweating - even with a shower!. This might work better on the way home from work rather then on the way to work.

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Permalink 08/05/07 @ 15:37

Comment from: hari [Member]

· http://hari.literaryforums.org

These coaches would need fantastic air-fresheners too after one full stretch. :)

Permalink 09/05/07 @ 14:15

Comment from: Andrew [Visitor]

· http://andrews.co.nr

Hey dude, your RSS feed is not updating correctly. I use an RSS reader to keep up to date with your blog and it's been stuck on "Hacking Linux through Firewalls" for several weeks. I just thought you got lazy and stopped updating :P

Permalink 10/05/07 @ 05:00

Comment from: hari [Member]

· http://hari.literaryforums.org

Andrew, I get updates no problem at all. What feed reader do you use and what is the feed URL?

Permalink 10/05/07 @ 06:52

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

Should be working - I subscribe to my own RSS feed for this very reason, and it's updated no trouble.

Might be something to do with the backend upgrade a while back - the correct links for the RSS feed are over there in the sidebar, under "XML feeds"

Permalink 10/05/07 @ 09:40

Comment from: sokuban [Member]

Next they need to take that energy and make it the electricity for the train to run.

Permalink 10/05/07 @ 13:33