What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politics (1 Viewer)

[ALiberalModerate]

I think it would be interesting to see if the Outdoor Activities members here enjoy have an affect on their political ideology. Check all the activities that apply, and tell everyone what you like doing Outdoors wise, and if it has an effect on your worldview.

Also, I like running, so if your a runner, how often do you run, how far, and how fast (That of course has nothing to do with politics, but just wondering.)

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

I will start this off.

I really enjoy hiking, canoing, and wilderness backpacking and canoe trips. Thus I see the value in protected wilderness and public lands and because of this, I don't think I could ever be a Libertarian.

I run about 16 to 20 miles a week. However, I think thats a hobby that would have no affect on ones ideology. Bush is a runner though.

I love fishing, and go as much as I can. So I do see the value in environmental protections for clean water and public access to rivers and lakes.

 

[cherokee]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

Well I enjoy scuba diving which also includes cave, sinkhole and wreck diving.
Fossil hunting on land and in the water. Fishing of all types but especially the Alabama method using dynamite ..lol….j/k

 

[Kelzie]

I run. I love running. I try to do at least three miles three times a week (at 10 minutes/mile), speed work one day (which usually amounts to a mile and a half at 8 minutes/mile), one day cross training where I either bike or swim and one long run of about six miles. And of course one day off. I absolutely love running, can't get enough of it. I hope to do the Ironman one day. And by one day I mean three or four years from now. :lol:

I used to kayak but got pinned against a rock and had no desire to try again.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

Well I enjoy scuba diving which also includes cave, sinkhole and wreck diving.
Fossil hunting on land and in the water. Fishing of all types but especially the Alabama method using dynamite ..lol….j/k

The poll only could have 10 options, so I could not do scuba diving.

My Grandpa on my Mom's side was a powder monkey, so him and his buddies definitely did their fare share of fishing with the Alabama method. :lol:

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

I run. I love running. I try to do at least three miles three times a week (at 10 minutes/mile), speed work one day (which usually amounts to a mile and a half at 8 minutes/mile), one day cross training where I either bike or swim and one long run of about six miles. And of course one day off. I absolutely love running, can't get enough of it. I hope to do the Ironman one day. And by one day I mean three or four years from now. :lol:

I used to kayak but got pinned against a rock and had no desire to try again.

I love canoing, never kayaked though. Don't do whitewater, but love going on wilderness canoe trips down on the Buffalo and other Ozark rivers when they are not crowded.

I try to run 5 days a week. Usually try to run 3 to 4 miles a day at 8 to 9 minute miles, and one long run of 6 to 9 miles at 9 minutes or so a mile. However, with this heat this summer, on the 100 degree plus high humidity days, about 2 miles of running and walking and sprinting the last mile is the best I can do without submitting to heat exhaustion.

I have read several times that President Bush regularly runs 3 - 7 to 8 minute miles on his ranch in the Texas heat on his vacations. I am sure they exaggerate those times, but thats pretty good just the same. Especially when you consider his age.

 

[Kelzie]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

I love canoing, never kayaked though. Don't do whitewater, but love going on wilderness canoe trips down on the Buffalo and other Ozark rivers when they are not crowded.

I try to run 5 days a week. Usually try to run 3 to 4 miles a day at 8 to 9 minute miles, and one long run of 6 to 9 miles at 9 minutes or so a mile. However, with this heat this summer, on the 100 degree plus high humidity days, about 2 miles of running and walking and sprinting the last mile is the best I can do without submitting to heat exhaustion.

I have read several times that President Bush regularly runs 3 - 7 to 8 minute miles on his ranch in the Texas heat on his vacations. I am sure they exaggerate those times, but thats pretty good just the same. Especially when you consider his age.

I hope to get up to the point where I can run eight minute miles and not consider it speed work. :lol: I was running 12 minutes miles in late spring, so I've come a long way, but still so far to go.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

I hope to get up to the point where I can run eight minute miles and not consider it speed work. :lol: I was running 12 minutes miles in late spring, so I've come a long way, but still so far to go.

I started running reguarly last March. I stand 6'1 so leg length probably gives me an advantage on speed. However, I am pretty slow. I the fastest I can run 3 miles is about 22 minutes or so. The fastest I can run one mile is about 6 minutes or so. I am not very compeditive though, so its just fun with me and a good way to stay in shape. I have never ran over about 9 miles, but I would like to do a marathon one day.

 

[Kelzie]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

I started running reguarly last March. I stand 6'1 so leg length probably gives me an advantage on speed. However, I am pretty slow. I the fastest I can run 3 miles is about 22 minutes or so. The fastest I can run one mile is about 6 minutes or so. I am not very compeditive though, so its just fun with me and a good way to stay in shape. I have never ran over about 9 miles, but I would like to do a marathon one day.

I ran a ten miler once, it was a blast. I'd like to run a marathon too. Bet we could both do it next year.

 

[Trajan Octavian Titus]

Jet sking, dirt biking, wake boarding, fishing, skating, tubing, bbqing, riding motorcycles, gardening all though it's best to do this indoors prefferably in a closet with grow lights, shrooming (ever fed a cow a hamburger?), pool hopping (god I haven't done that since I lived in Chi-town), hunting cute wittle bunny wabbits j.k. I've never hunted bunnies just the occassional baby seal.

Fly for free? Sorry, Tink, looks like I don't need you anymore.

:tink: So you're gonna dump me, just like that?

You knew what this was.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

I ran a ten miler once, it was a blast. I'd like to run a marathon too. Bet we could both do it next year.

Probably, they say you need about a year of training before doing a marathon. To be honest, cardio wise, I think I could just about do one now, I just dont know that my joints would hold up for the whole thing.

 

[Kelzie]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

Probably, they say you need about a year of training before doing a marathon. To be honest, cardio wise, I think I could just about do one now, I just dont know that my joints would hold up for the whole thing.

Well ideally you'd like to be able to walk back to your car afterwards. :lol: I'd rather wait until I can limit my recovery time down to a week, tops.

 

[Trajan Octavian Titus]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

Well ideally you'd like to be able to walk back to your car afterwards. :lol: I'd rather wait until I can limit my recovery time down to a week, tops.

I got Three words for you Jim ****ing Fix. Remember Jim Fix? The big famous jogging guy? Jogged fifteen miles a day. Did a jogging book. Did a jogging video. Dropped dead of a heart attack when? When he was ****ing jogging, that's when! What do you wanna bet it was two smokers who found the body the next morning and went, "Hey! That's Jim Fix, isn't it?" "Wow, what a ****ing tragedy. Come on, lets go buy some butts." --Denis Leary

 

[Pen]

Hub and I live about 50 miles west of Seattle in a very rural area. I am reminded how lucky we are each time we go to Seattle, for our quality of life. Clean air, unpolluted waters, and Nature's best. Hub fishes off our dock with no concern about toxins. I take out my mini sail boat on a perfect day of wind. We both garden to attract the local critters and for our own pleasure.

How does this affect me politically? I am a property rights advocate that also insists on personal responsibility. Do NOT mess with the lake and let me hear about it. If a failing septic tank is poisoning our shell fish or salmon, FIX it! It's not all about you, Bucko, it's about our quality of life.

I am a tree hugger of MY trees, and plenty of people have said I should cut them down to improve the view. No way. BUT, if some regulatory agency said that I couldn't cut my trees, I would be up in their faces.

Property freedoms with responsibility are a good thing imo.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Hub and I live about 50 miles west of Seattle in a very rural area. I am reminded how lucky we are each time we go to Seattle, for our quality of life. Clean air, unpolluted waters, and Nature's best. Hub fishes off our dock with no concern about toxins. I take out my mini sail boat on a perfect day of wind. We both garden to attract the local critters and for our own pleasure.

How does this affect me politically? I am a property rights advocate that also insists on personal responsibility. Do NOT mess with the lake and let me hear about it. If a failing septic tank is poisoning our shell fish or salmon, FIX it! It's not all about you, Bucko, it's about our quality of life.

I am a tree hugger of MY trees, and plenty of people have said I should cut them down to improve the view. No way. BUT, if some regulatory agency said that I couldn't cut my trees, I would be up in their faces.

Property freedoms with responsibility are a good thing imo.

I agree with you that there is definitely a lot of value in terms of conservation with private landowners. The deplorable environmental record of China and the former USSR is a perfect example of this. However, for every 10 property owners who do care about the land, there is that 2 or 3 that don’t, hence the need for oversight. It’s a fine line though between the government working with landowners and working against them. Moreover, I think that the National Forests and National Parks in the United States are a true National Treasure.

 

[Arthur Fonzarelli]

Interesting question.

I'm not outdoorsy in the sense of hunting, fishing, etc...

I do spend time outdoors --- coaching little league baseball (when my son is grown & out of the house I plan on volunteering to continue to coach little league).

--- I have never been hunting - the only guns I've fired were the M-1911, M-9, M-16, M-60, S.A.W. (a fully automatic machine gun that fires M-16 rounds --- belt fed or magazine fed), & 50 cal. --- yes, all while in the military.

--- never liked fishing (I don't even like fish - except a good quality tuna steak)

I have done most of the other activities but were never my favorites. Plus while in the military I enjoyed parachuting as well as repelling but did not persue either of those activities after my military service ended.

As for gardening --- not that I enjoy it but if this goes along with taking care of my yard I do like my yard to look good (no matter if I like to do it or not --- it's just the responsible thing to do).

running --- not just for the sake of running --- within the context of a sport; yes.

I also work outside (in a rail yard)

--- mosquitoes are an issue for me when it comes to a lot of outdoor activities. My exessive use of DEET will probably kill me.

not really sure how any of this affects me politically...

I guess -- to each his own...

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Re: What Outdoor Activities do you enjoy and how do they affect your views on politic

--- mosquitoes are an issue for me when it comes to a lot of outdoor activities. My exessive use of DEET will probably kill me.

not really sure how any of this affects me politically...

I guess -- to each his own...

I would take the risk of liver disease from a lifetime of Deet usage over malaria any day. Between battling the ticks, chiggers, and skeeters, if personal insecticide use killed you, I would have been dead long ago.

 

[Gardener]

Well, Im not so really sure it is an avocation any more, what with the fact that I do little else and am so consumed by the undertaking that I have dedicated so many decades towards it, and I would say the word "enjoy" might need to be replaced with some other word along the lines of "have" as in I HAVE to do it, since there is really little choice in the matter these days having reduced myself to little more than the obsessive repetition of various tortuous abuses I inflict upon my haggard corpus, commited in the name of digging, mulching, moving large rocks, grappling with thorned things, digging some more, whacking bits of herbage away from other bits of herbage and whatnot, but the answer is yes. I am, and the effect of all this on my politics should be obvious.

It makes me cranky.