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eclectic



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:58 pm    Post subject: Jogging tracks or Running tracks Reply with quote

Just wondering about this: My wife and I like to run 5 kilometers about 5 times a week, usually in the evening. Are there any running or jogging tracks or paths that a couple can run on together? As long as they are attired properly, that goes without saying.

Is it OK for a husband and wife to run together on a public track or running course? Are there parks like the ones you sometimes see in England or America or wherever that have a lake in the middle and a nice paved walkway around the perimeter, where people can stroll or even jog?

Or is this not a normal custom in KSA?
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007



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Jogging tracks or Running tracks Reply with quote

eclectic wrote:
Just wondering about this: My wife and I like to run 5 kilometers about 5 times a week, usually in the evening. Are there any running or jogging tracks or paths that a couple can run on together? As long as they are attired properly, that goes without saying.

Running or jogging with your wife in public in the Magic Kingdom!
Well, if you do it, then local people will think that you took an overdose of camel milk (without Zangabeel! Laughing ). And the boys will run after you saying �Majnoun with Majnounah�! Laughing

In the Magic Kingdom if you want to run with your wife is to use the desert track or covered track, where nobody will see you. But, the problem is how are you going to handle the high temperature?

I think it is normal to seen couples (husband and wife) walking in the Corniche of road in a park or a sea, but not running or jogging together! Unless if it was inside a private compound.
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Cleopatra



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Or is this not a normal custom in KSA?


To put it mildly, no.

There are a number of reasons why 5 kilometre jogs involving couples just aren't that popular in KSA. One, of course, is the weather. Winter is OK, but for much of the year it's too hot even to take a casual stroll in comfort, let alone jog, even after dark.

Secondly, you have the 'modesty' issue. I can't imagine jogging is much fun in an abaya! Things may be easier for men, but even so, shorts are still considered risque in most parts of the Kingdom.

But aside from all that, you have the fact that it's simply 'not done' to exercise in public. A vigorous stroll might be OK, but for anything more strenuous you'll have to use one of many gyms or stay on a compound. As 007 says - do I find myself agreeing with him - you'll be considered rather, um, eccentric for jogging with a woman in public and you will attract the unwelcome attention of hordes of young men who have nothing better to do than jeer at you from the air-conditioned comfort of their cars.


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eclectic



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thank you 007 and Cleopatra.

What is a "covered track"?

Compound I understand. Do you mean "indoor track" ? Would that be a health club for men and women, or just a closed-in type of race track, like the ones they use in 5000 meter relay races.

As for Zangabeel and Hot Camel's Milk, I hear it makes one run clumsily along a zig-zagged pathway, like in a zig-zagged line, or something along that line.
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Cleopatra



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Would that be a health club for men and women


The only mixed health clubs you'll find are on compounds or embassies. Other gyms/health clubs are strictly gender segregated.

No idea what a 'covered track' is.
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trapezius



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your only options:

1) Live in a compound.
2) Make friends with people in a compound.
3) Buy 2 treadmills and you can run a million kilometers together!
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tillymd



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:00 pm    Post subject: Let's get physical Reply with quote

Let's get physical, physical, I wanna get physical, lemme hear your body talk....

You could give up exercising, take up drinking and smoking, and become fat and lazy. Of course the drinking and smoking must be done in the closet, using the utmost caution.

Then,

1. Become an expert at vegetable pickling. Stirring big buckets of kimchee will develop you biceps.
2.Take up country line dancing. Invite the neighbors, you can make friends while burning those unwanted calories.
3. Do what everyone else does and buy a wii. The virtual people are cute.

Thanks, Tillymd
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