Micheal Boogerd spin class

Limburger

Thanks to the place I work having their health week Micheal Boogerd is giving spin classes this evening and I have bagged myself a place. Should be top fun I hope, wonder if he still has the legs.

Other things going on this week are free heath checks (blood, VO2, fat, BMI etc.) Cheep healthy lunches. The culmination being a staff day off where we all get to spend a day doing sports and clambering around over huge inflatable obstacle courses in teams for prize money. All this followed by a massive BBQ and open bar.

Can't say fairer than that for the 5000 employees. Another reason why I don't miss the UK.

rick_chasey

Leuk zeg!

Splottboy

They could arrange this over here, but you'd have to pay a fortune.

Hope you enjoy it!

Gazzaputt

That is brilliant. Very jealous

Limburger

Thanks. I am genuinely looking forward to it.

As fate would have it I am flying back to the UK tomorrow and fear they might have to carry my ruined carcass onto the aircraft. It has been some months since I last did any spinning, but I suppose now it rains every day I will have to get back indoors.

Maybe I can ask Boogerd what is better for performance enhancing, EPO, Synthetic Blood or a cheeky holiday in Mexico.

verylonglegs

So you have a week of health checks, healthy food and are encouraged to do healthy activities and then you round it off with a huge BBQ and copious amounts of alcohol?

rick_chasey

verylonglegs wrote:

So you have a week of health checks, healthy food and are encouraged to do healthy activities and then you round it off with a huge BBQ and copious amounts of alcohol?

The BBQ isn't in England!

Limburger

verylonglegs wrote:

So you have a week of health checks, healthy food and are encouraged to do healthy activities and then you round it off with a huge BBQ and copious amounts of alcohol?

I thought it a bit paradoxical to have a BBQ and drink in a health week, but there you go. Perhaps in the name of mental health.

Suffice to say it is not quite like in the link from Rich Chasey. It's all very mild mannered and sociable.

verylonglegs

Limburger wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

So you have a week of health checks, healthy food and are encouraged to do healthy activities and then you round it off with a huge BBQ and copious amounts of alcohol?

I thought it a bit paradoxical to have a BBQ and drink in a health week, but there you go. Perhaps in the name of mental health.

Suffice to say it is not quite like in the link from Rich Chasey. It's all very mild mannered and sociable.

Yeah, I was referring to the contradiction between the two health wise, not quite sure how the link to English yob culture is relevant. Think my point was being missed.

rick_chasey

verylonglegs wrote:

Limburger wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

So you have a week of health checks, healthy food and are encouraged to do healthy activities and then you round it off with a huge BBQ and copious amounts of alcohol?

I thought it a bit paradoxical to have a BBQ and drink in a health week, but there you go. Perhaps in the name of mental health.

Suffice to say it is not quite like in the link from Rich Chasey. It's all very mild mannered and sociable.

Yeah, I was referring to the contradiction between the two health wise, not quite sure how the link to English yob culture is relevant. Think my point was being missed.

My point is that copious amounts of alcohol, especially at a work do, is not particularly Dutch! Indeed, it's very English!

verylonglegs

Rick Chasey wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

Limburger wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

So you have a week of health checks, healthy food and are encouraged to do healthy activities and then you round it off with a huge BBQ and copious amounts of alcohol?

I thought it a bit paradoxical to have a BBQ and drink in a health week, but there you go. Perhaps in the name of mental health.

Suffice to say it is not quite like in the link from Rich Chasey. It's all very mild mannered and sociable.

Yeah, I was referring to the contradiction between the two health wise, not quite sure how the link to English yob culture is relevant. Think my point was being missed.

My point is that copious amounts of alcohol, especially at a work do, is not particularly Dutch! Indeed, it's very English!

Ah right, I was reading the article in the link and it mainly referred to the carnage in the high street on a saturday night and the inbreds that follow the football team abroad.

We have our annual works BBQ here next week (bit late for a summer one I know!) and it too is fairly sedate and sociable with an open bar, so it can happen in England too but sadly not as much as it should.

rick_chasey

verylonglegs wrote:

We have our annual works BBQ here next week (bit late for a summer one I know!) and it too is fairly sedate and sociable with an open bar, so it can happen in England too but sadly not as much as it should.

Try working where I do.

I'm new and inexperienced, in a very small company (9 people!) and, well, suffice to say, their description of their christmas social was "dangerously hardcore power drinking".

I really don't take drink well and don't really like it.

It's not easy!

Aggieboy

Anyone in contact with Teagar? He'd be interested in this thread.

verylonglegs

Rick Chasey wrote:

verylonglegs wrote:

We have our annual works BBQ here next week (bit late for a summer one I know!) and it too is fairly sedate and sociable with an open bar, so it can happen in England too but sadly not as much as it should.

Try working where I do.

I'm new and inexperienced, in a very small company (9 people!) and, well, suffice to say, their description of their christmas social was "dangerously hardcore power drinking".

I really don't take drink well and don't really like it.

It's not easy!

I don't envy your situation I have to say. I'm not sure things in this country will change anytime soon either but we live in hope I guess.

Limburger

The spin class was sweat-tacular and, as I had hoped, full of fit 18-25 women sweating profusely.





It's a dirty job but someone has to do it!

rick_chasey

Limburger wrote:

The spin class was sweat-tacular and, as I had hoped, full of fit 18-25 women sweating profusely.





It's a dirty job but someone has to do it!

Jealous!

mroli

When I worked in the Netherlands (I did a six month secondment there), I'd occassionally get asked (a bit randomly) by one of the other staff if I'd like to go out for a drink. We'd go out and do some "enthusiastic" but not necessarily OTT drinking until fairly late (but not by 24 hour drinking Amsterdam standards). It took me about 4 months to realise that my drinking partner would never show up for work the next day.

After asking around about this, I found out that "drinking with the Englishman" was a perfectly valid excuse for the next day off. :oops:

I love the Dutch. They cycle, they like the English and apart from karnemelk, for which there is absolutely NO excuse, I enjoyed the cuisine (hell, I like a cheese sandwich, or a ham sandwich, but NEVER a cheese and ham sandwich - the extravagance!)