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Bum ... Bags
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We concluded after our walk last Sunday that we both needed to carry water on Summer walks. I don't get on with rucksack bladders and we don't really need two rucksacks anyway for summer day walks so I wondered about a bum bag. I'd seen several around with bottle carriers.
A quick search around the web suggested that the Lifeventure Base Runner 2 was what I needed and aktive8 in Edinburgh had it at the excellent price £21.25 with free delivery (the usual price being £25 and most people wanted carriage on top of that).
So on Monday I placed my order. On Friday I was checking my credit card bill online and noticed that aktive8 had debited my card ... but where was the bum bag?
Checking their web site revealed the order had a status of "Awaiting Stock" but
elsewhere on their web site it said:
We do our best to keep the website
up to date with our stock levels but high demand on some products does
mean we sometimes run dry on certain bits of gear. If this happens with
an order you have placed, we will make contact to advise of a new
despatch date - we will leave it to you to decide whether to accept this
date or cancel you order for a refund.
Hmmm ... so why hadn't that happened then? In the end, after chasing them by email, I had to phone them on an 0871 number to discover that they didn't have stock and wouldn't have any for a couple of weeks yet. Sigh. We agreed they would cancel the order.
A trip into town on the bus and a wander through (the soon to be closed) Field and Trek, Blacks, Millets and finally the wonderful Open Air revealed I should have just gone to Open Air in the first place as they had the Base Runner 2 in stock and for £25.
Home again and we did the Horningsea to Anglesey Abbey walk (anti-clockwise for a change) with me wearing the bum bag and carrying two pints of iced water. My conclusions: it works fine, but to keep the water cold I need to put more ice it, I used six cubes in each this time, next time I'll use all the ice in the freezer (i.e. twelve cubes per bottle).
Oh yes, and other good news: my weight dropped to 245lb for the first time (in recent years) yesterday. It's up a bit again today but that's a good sign as the general trend seems to be very gently downwards.
Previous comments about this article:
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On
13/05/08
at
1:57pm
Simon Booth
wrote:
I'd always assumed it would be easier rather than harder for tall people, since you get to square your height. I'd be obese at 13 stone (I'm 12st9 at the moment) and have to get down to 11 to be at the top end of normal.
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On
13/05/08
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2:56pm
Paul
wrote:
It's certainly a rather crude measure. Take me. I'm 6'4". Suppose I weigh 240lb then my BMI is 29.2. Now take someone half my height. Now if they were perfectly in proportion to me they would weigh an eighth of what I do and their BMI should be identical surely ... however their BMI is 14.6. So short people get to be tubbier for the same BMI.
That's an extreme example but even if we take you. I deduce that you're about 5'6" tall. So you're 0.86 of my height so if you're in proportion you would be 0.64 of my weight at 11 stone and as you say your BMI would already be 24.9. So if I could shrink myself to your height I wouldn't need to lose weight at all ...
OK, it's all a crock. The truth is that tall people are inherently slimmer if they're not to look overweight.
Damn.
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