In some ways I look forward to life post Ironman. It's amazing how much stuff I can get done when I'm not exhausted all the time. I took the day completely off, and instead put in a good 10 hours working on my task list. It was quite a gratifying day, and a learning one as well. The learning came from mother nature. Don't shave your head one day, and then spend 4 hours on the tractor without a hat the next day!! Idiot! Anyway, I killed about 3 acres of dandelions, even though I now understand that what I did was somewhat illegal. Something called the Ontario Cosmetic Pesticide Ban! I guess you're supposed to pull the dandelions out one at a time! hmmmm......
I also built a table...just cause I wanted to!
And the best part is that it was pure salvage! Never cost me a dime! The base is from an old patio table that Mig was trashing, and the beautiful bits of cedar that make up the top were abandoned here by one of Adrian's friends. The table will go in the pool area.
Speaking of which....Marco Polo anyone?
Nothing makes me happier! Seventy-one degrees Fahrenheit, and they're in!
And on the training front this was supposed to be long swim day, but for a few reasons I decided to rest. The obvious one was cause I'm tired, but also the weather forecast is lousy for tomorrow so it seemed logical to make that my swim day. I have also decided to add a wee bit of resistance training in somewhere over the coming weeks, as there really is no good answer to the "why not" question. Cutting it out of my routine this last time around was only a response to my overall struggles. I can see now that I should simply have reduced, instead of eliminated. Thanks Mike and Gail for getting me to rethink.
And that's it. Overall I had a very gratifying day, even without a workout. I hope y'all had a good day as well. "
...and here's a few tougher tasks I need to work on...
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."---Rumi
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."---Erich Fromm
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."---Erich Fromm
Love
Peter
I also built a table...just cause I wanted to!
And the best part is that it was pure salvage! Never cost me a dime! The base is from an old patio table that Mig was trashing, and the beautiful bits of cedar that make up the top were abandoned here by one of Adrian's friends. The table will go in the pool area.
Speaking of which....Marco Polo anyone?
Nothing makes me happier! Seventy-one degrees Fahrenheit, and they're in!
And on the training front this was supposed to be long swim day, but for a few reasons I decided to rest. The obvious one was cause I'm tired, but also the weather forecast is lousy for tomorrow so it seemed logical to make that my swim day. I have also decided to add a wee bit of resistance training in somewhere over the coming weeks, as there really is no good answer to the "why not" question. Cutting it out of my routine this last time around was only a response to my overall struggles. I can see now that I should simply have reduced, instead of eliminated. Thanks Mike and Gail for getting me to rethink.
And that's it. Overall I had a very gratifying day, even without a workout. I hope y'all had a good day as well. "
...and here's a few tougher tasks I need to work on...
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."---Rumi
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."---Erich Fromm
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."---Erich Fromm
Love
Peter
Really like the table! Love your thinking these days! About everything.
ReplyDeleteLove, gail