Winter storm storming in!
Workout - rest day
I can hear y’all saying it - some Ironman!
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About Me:
Senior Scientist Ironman Triathlete & Blogger. Carrboro, NC. Mantra: safe exercise for better health through improved mind and body awareness. Business USP: use the experience of an actively competing scientist Ironman triathlete with an abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft to develop a safe approach to exercise for better health through improved mind-body awareness, if you have diabetes, heart disease, cancer, obesity, other health challenge, or you are simply dealing with the effects of aging.
Marital Status: Partnered
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Hi Kevin,
Respect! I realise just what kind of challenge you have undertaken. Deciding to do an Ironman takes grit at any stage of life. Deciding to do it as a veteran athlete takes extra grit. Deciding to do it after such major surgery takes true grit, Deciding to take an extra rest day in the face of a major storm takes brains. True grit and brains -just the combination you need for Lake Placid. Instead of calling this a rest day, you should endorse your training diary that you are doing mental training today.
Best regards,
Glenn
Hi Glenn, yes, mental training. That reminds me of my old research days, when I had a pretty big team of staff, graduate students and post-docs. I never got any time to work on what I enjoyed. I was answering other people’s questions all the time. There was a period of a couple of years that I was building an oscillating sphere micro-rheometer, but I couldn’t make progress without some uninterrupted time. So I instigated psychological vacation for myself. I would warn everyone in the lab., put someone in charge, and only true emergencies would be accepted by me, personally - it was heaven. One time I was working on my beloved rheometer, uninterrupted, and I thought I had better take a break for lunch. I got up, left the lab, and the place seemed deserted, then I looked outside and it was pitch black - it was 9:00 pm. I was so absorbed time was timeless, I’d been playing for 14 hours, which seemed like a few moments. That was the kind of thing I loved to do. Yep! Psychological training, in the company of two dogs and a cat, and I’ll pick up Deb at midnight as a special treat. Cheers, Kevin
Mr. F.O. Dog,
I doubt that anyone is dissing you for taking a day off on this Winter day. The extra recuperation will probably do you a world of good. Hope you are doing and feeling well.
Walt
Hi Walt, yep, quite some storm coming our way. I was tempted to watch the third and final episode of the matrix (I still laugh about the absence of a stent!), but decided to sit quietly with my non-human animal companions until Deb gets off of work at midnight. I’m very happy, and you’re right, the recuperation will do me good. Cheers, Kevin