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Strange cycling experiences in a foreign culture

  • 14-07-2012 2:21pm
    #1
    pprendeville
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    Just had my very first spinning class here this evening in China and am interested in how it compares to back home. Went to a gym with a friend and hadn’t been on the bike for 3 weeks so am a bit out of shape after having done relatively little all year anyway. Was fairly impressed by setup of the gym. Lots of treadmills, weight machines, pilates class or Chinese equivalent taking place, ping pong tables, a pool table:confused: and a room with bikes. The class had just started but I wandered in anyway and tried my luck. Haven’t taken part in a class before so found it tough to hold the pace but it was a great workout. A few interesting things which I assume wouldn’t happen in Irish classes I noted as follows:

    l Room was quite dark with laser lights more akin to a nightclub. Reminded me of Docs from way back in my first stint in college in UL. All that was missing was the bar.
    l While spinning the instructor would shout and then the people would follow suit and do a kind of bend over thing while pedaling which I found very hard to do having never done it on a roadbike.
    l A person outside the spinning room (glass walls) who was playing pingpong (tabletennis) had a smoke during a break in his match. A similar thing happened in Beijing yesterday when I was in a taxi and I saw a bus driver who was stalled in traffic get out of his seat, open the door and have a few puffs while he waited for traffic to get going again.
    l There were intermittent smells of Chinese food wafting into the room.

    Anyone experience any strange phenomenon’s elsewhere or have an experience to share about cycling related activities in a different culture?


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