Check this out for an awesomely tough cycle race. 140kms of hills with the worst one at 100kms. This is going to be the first race of Lance Armstrong's comeback.
I have to do this race.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
racing to the finish
So the blackwood went really well. Ride conditions were not ideal and did not quite get the 30kms/hr time I wanted.
But that is old news.
Today I am thinking about self improvement. For the last couple of days my mind has been fighting through the sludge of boredom and depression. So I have been reading Lifehack.org and then found Breaking Free (which I am not so sure about yet.)
Something that I heard ages ago was that if you want to change something, do it slowly. Humans hate change. We hate to move away from what we know and it scares us. The best way to prevent change is to get inspired and change your whole life at once. That will last a week (or until the coffee runs out) and then collapse in a heap because it is unsustainable.
It is all about not getting inspired. It is all about changing anyway even if we don't feel like it. And it is all about one small change at a time. Get the change part of your lifestyle and then do the next one. Then in five years time we will not be in the same place doing the same thing. It will feel like we have not changed because it happened so slowly.
Everyone loves and exciting, life-changing, inspiring article or lecture. I have been wondering about all of this. If a person was to strive to better himself everyday and made little changes all the time, how long would it take him to be perfect? Is it possible? Is there enough time in a persons life? Is that what being enlightened means? Or holy? Or can only God do that? I am not getting religious (or maybe I am a bit - but I don't mean to). I was just wondering what is at the end of all this self improvement. You know what I want - happiness. That is all.
Such a small and then most incredibly massive goal.
But that is old news.
Today I am thinking about self improvement. For the last couple of days my mind has been fighting through the sludge of boredom and depression. So I have been reading Lifehack.org and then found Breaking Free (which I am not so sure about yet.)
Something that I heard ages ago was that if you want to change something, do it slowly. Humans hate change. We hate to move away from what we know and it scares us. The best way to prevent change is to get inspired and change your whole life at once. That will last a week (or until the coffee runs out) and then collapse in a heap because it is unsustainable.
It is all about not getting inspired. It is all about changing anyway even if we don't feel like it. And it is all about one small change at a time. Get the change part of your lifestyle and then do the next one. Then in five years time we will not be in the same place doing the same thing. It will feel like we have not changed because it happened so slowly.
Everyone loves and exciting, life-changing, inspiring article or lecture. I have been wondering about all of this. If a person was to strive to better himself everyday and made little changes all the time, how long would it take him to be perfect? Is it possible? Is there enough time in a persons life? Is that what being enlightened means? Or holy? Or can only God do that? I am not getting religious (or maybe I am a bit - but I don't mean to). I was just wondering what is at the end of all this self improvement. You know what I want - happiness. That is all.
Such a small and then most incredibly massive goal.
Friday, October 24, 2008
race
friday and coffee'ed up. i gave in to the coffee cravings today and it is balancing my mood nicely. it feels a little bipolar actually with mild swinging feeling of joy and despair.
so this weekend is the blackwood marathon. i am heading down with people that i do not know very well but am hoping to know better afterwards.
the goal this weekend is to chill and just cruise the race. the anaconda race is next weekend and i am hoping to do really well in that. more on that next time.
so the blackwood, hey. 12kms of running, 8.5kms of paddling, lunch, 1km swim and then 20km cycle. i am psyched! team adamantium is coming out again. i will actually write about adamantium sometime. there is lots to tell.
so the plan is to take everything easy and then smash the ride. the course is hilly so i hope to average just over 30km/hr. if everything goes well hopefully a little more.
and i will work on nutrition a bit and experiment for next weekend.
so it is 30mins to the end of work. the boats are on the roofracks and i am ready to head off.
go adamantium:
so this weekend is the blackwood marathon. i am heading down with people that i do not know very well but am hoping to know better afterwards.
the goal this weekend is to chill and just cruise the race. the anaconda race is next weekend and i am hoping to do really well in that. more on that next time.
so the blackwood, hey. 12kms of running, 8.5kms of paddling, lunch, 1km swim and then 20km cycle. i am psyched! team adamantium is coming out again. i will actually write about adamantium sometime. there is lots to tell.
so the plan is to take everything easy and then smash the ride. the course is hilly so i hope to average just over 30km/hr. if everything goes well hopefully a little more.
and i will work on nutrition a bit and experiment for next weekend.
so it is 30mins to the end of work. the boats are on the roofracks and i am ready to head off.
go adamantium:
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Fighting the Mind
If I didn't have to fight my mood the whole time I think I would be far more successful than I am. I am reading a self help book at the moment called "How to be Brilliant". It is very inspirational and I have read it before but it makes things seem so easy.
He fails to take into account mood. He seems to think it is easy to not feel in a particular way. Well, I have news for you buster, it is not that easy.
What bothers me is that I seem to need caffeine to get myself out of my lethargy. Now I know that everyone drinks coffee and there is no reason not to. But it bothers me that I have become reliant on coffee to make me happy and productive.
So now I have a whole lot of paperwork and stuff to get done but I just don't feel like it. I will just have to return to the mantra that I am trying at the moment which is: "What would you do if you were not feeling flat."
I would write happier blogs and get productive.
He fails to take into account mood. He seems to think it is easy to not feel in a particular way. Well, I have news for you buster, it is not that easy.
What bothers me is that I seem to need caffeine to get myself out of my lethargy. Now I know that everyone drinks coffee and there is no reason not to. But it bothers me that I have become reliant on coffee to make me happy and productive.
So now I have a whole lot of paperwork and stuff to get done but I just don't feel like it. I will just have to return to the mantra that I am trying at the moment which is: "What would you do if you were not feeling flat."
I would write happier blogs and get productive.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
inspiration
today i have lost inspiration. i thought about writing about training for races but got one line in and got bored. then my new pups need some writing about but no one wants to hear about other peoples dogs. i will just post a photo:
i aspire to be excellent at this and make an entertaining blog but am not living up to my expectations and so freeze in my writing and dont post.
i need to stop that.
i aspire to be excellent at this and make an entertaining blog but am not living up to my expectations and so freeze in my writing and dont post.
i need to stop that.
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