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Couch to 5K Accountability Thread
Redball:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 23 Jun 2012, 02:21 ---Decided on a new post because it's unrelated to the previous one.
I'm taking a week off from the programme, because a) my headphones don't work, and I'm finding it hard to run by time alone, b) I'm really busy this week and trying to find time to run is stressing me out, and c) my weight-loss has plateaued, and sometimes stopping exercising and then starting again can kick-start the metabolism again. I might go for a run a couple of times just for the sake of it, but I'll restart week 5 when I get back next Friday from my mum's. There's nowhere to run at hers anyway, she lives on a steep hill full of cow-mucky, windy narrow roads with tractors lurking behind every bend.
I'll update if I go on any random runs. I sort of want to go today, so I'll see how I feel later.
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Steep hill = great path for power walks. I read your post at 6 a.m. But I couldn't find my wallet (what if I collapse on the street in a strange town, hey?). Couldn't find my iPhone (although I could have used my wristwatch; W5R3 is pretty simple). I finally found everything and decided to go, worried a little about getting too far out in front of my international pack as to discourage. So walk as you can during the week. And hope to hear from you -- and the rest, too!
Carl-E:
Wires should be coiled, not wrapped around something with corners. It's the repeated sharp bends under tension that destroys them, the finer the wire, the quicker the damage. If you always wrap the same way, you just keep bending them back and forth in the same places. Not to mention the act of wrapping puts the wires under tension around those corners...
I've had earbuds that came with spools before, but they always bend somewhere, and do nothing for the wrapping tension problem.
I can't tell you how many computer charging cords I've spliced becauses of wrapping around the charger...
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 23 Jun 2012, 02:14 ---Hmm. So possibly the guy is right in refusing the return? How should I store the wires to avoid them being damaged, but also avoid them being tangled?
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A few times of it won't kill them - it's repeatedly doing so over time that does it. The headphones sound like they're junk.
Proper storage would be how you find them when you first open the package, secured with a rubber band of twist tie, like so:
Barmymoo:
My MP3 player doesn't have corners, it's got rounded edges. Obviously they're still sort of cornery, but certainly not sharp. I'll get new headphones and store them more carefully.
Omega Entity:
It's not so much how the corners are, though, it's the repeated pulling against the object itself, and the strain on the cord being often in the same places, if you wrap it the same way every time. When you wrap it around something, you pull it tight against the thing, and that's what causes the wire fatigue.
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