Boing Boing » running http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 17:03:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The zen of the underwater treadmill http://boingboing.net/2012/07/19/the-zen-of-the-underwater-trea.html http://boingboing.net/2012/07/19/the-zen-of-the-underwater-trea.html#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:24:15 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=171942

Something I enjoy: Specialized equipment that looks completely and utterly ridiculous when you watch people using it out of context.

Case in point, this advertisement for the HydroWorx X80 Underwater Treadmill. You have never seen Olympic-caliber runners look sillier. (Sadly, it's not entirely underwater. When I first saw the name of the clip, I was really hoping for guys in scuba gear.)

Also: I've apparently reached the age where current Olympians look to me like they ought to be too young to drive. Crap.

Thanks, Eli Kintisch

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