Thursday, May 5, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Intervals, Week 5: time to call it a day
After going all-out last Thursday, I've got an upper respiratory wheeze-and-crud that's not bad, but not letting go either. That, plus a couple of days of key meetings at work... So I just rode today, and am back to regular riding.
I'll post one more on the topic after I get over this cough and can see how things improve on the mountain bike.
I'll post one more on the topic after I get over this cough and can see how things improve on the mountain bike.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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...and let me tell you, it it turns into a spam-pain or even causes me five minutes' extra work, they'll go right off. So behave yourselves.
Movie Review: Army of Shadows
On a note related to the Existential Star Wars previous post, I watched Army of Shadows this week. It's supposed to be about the French Resistance during WWII. Instead, it's more about the Clouseau-like misadventures of a mid-level player who stumbles through various set pieces with a Gaulic shrug. The only people the Resistance guys manage to whack are other Resistance people (one's a snitch, the other's compromised; I guess that was their Fate), and the closest to a real mission they cary out would have been thwarted but for the corruption of a petty official. Well, at least there was some minor humor in that one incident.
I don't recall any effective actions against the Nazis anywhere in the entire move. Should have been named "Notes Administrative from the Events of 1940-45." The only way it held my interest was that I kept waiting for the movie to wake up and for Stuff to Happen. But no, it was a total waste of time.
1 of 4 stars, for being worthless but not actively pissing me off.
I don't recall any effective actions against the Nazis anywhere in the entire move. Should have been named "Notes Administrative from the Events of 1940-45." The only way it held my interest was that I kept waiting for the movie to wake up and for Stuff to Happen. But no, it was a total waste of time.
1 of 4 stars, for being worthless but not actively pissing me off.
Dispaches from the Art School
...from the Darling Daughter.
Art School Owl sez:
And then there's Existential Star Wars over at YouTube. As one comment put it, "was 'sartre wars' just too obvious?"
Art School Owl sez:
And then there's Existential Star Wars over at YouTube. As one comment put it, "was 'sartre wars' just too obvious?"
Friday, April 29, 2011
Intervals, Week 4: too wiped out to blog
Seriously.
Spent last weekend off the bike eating aspirin and glucosamine, took a light mtb spin on Monday, then hit it 1:30 on / 1:00 off, repeat six times, rest-spin about eight minutes, then do the whole set over again. Not fun, but I was feeling OK afterward.
Then around 4:15pm, having dozed at my desk for about 45 minutes, I came to with absolutely no memory of drifting off to sleep, feeling tired, or anything. Just like somebody'd flipped a switch, I'd been asleep. A tad spooky.
Thursday the weather was perfect, and I was able to ride so hard that I quit caring about pain. Afterward, coughing fits, lethargy, and an upset stomach. But during the ride I felt unstoppable. The intervals are working, though there is a cost.
I plan on hitting the trails at Desoto this weekend, then one more week of intervals. Ugh. Intervals put you in a place past pain: it doesn't hurt anymore to go all out, and you're too damned tired to care. But the payoff will come the week after they're all done.
Spent last weekend off the bike eating aspirin and glucosamine, took a light mtb spin on Monday, then hit it 1:30 on / 1:00 off, repeat six times, rest-spin about eight minutes, then do the whole set over again. Not fun, but I was feeling OK afterward.
Then around 4:15pm, having dozed at my desk for about 45 minutes, I came to with absolutely no memory of drifting off to sleep, feeling tired, or anything. Just like somebody'd flipped a switch, I'd been asleep. A tad spooky.
Thursday the weather was perfect, and I was able to ride so hard that I quit caring about pain. Afterward, coughing fits, lethargy, and an upset stomach. But during the ride I felt unstoppable. The intervals are working, though there is a cost.
I plan on hitting the trails at Desoto this weekend, then one more week of intervals. Ugh. Intervals put you in a place past pain: it doesn't hurt anymore to go all out, and you're too damned tired to care. But the payoff will come the week after they're all done.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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