I just found the ill fitting, poor handling old beater of an observatory bike (apparently the truck, with the bikes, arrives Friday. It will only have been 3 weeks and a day, if they don't find another excuse to delay).
I just went for a quick ride around the mountaintops before dinner/breakfast (and came back about 5 mins early -- lets me cool down, I guess). I can now appreciate why it took one hour for the bad seeing (turbulence in the atmosphere) to propogate from one telescope to ours lastnight. The mountaintops aren't as flat as what they superficially look.
Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly?
-- TimC [On being overcaffeinated...] Yes, this is possible - symptons include the sun being too loud and grokking in full what Adams meant by "unpleasantly like being drunk". -- Steed in ASR
Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly?
It is cruel how quickly fitness disappears. I can emphasis after returning from a 3 month OS trip, of no bike and to much eating and drinking, I went from as fit and strong as I had ever been to feeling like I was completely starting out again.
Only after a good 6 weeks of bike am I feeling I am getting something back, but it is still no where close to where I was. Still lots of hard work to come.
Hope your bike turns up ASAP. On the bright side you have those hills to snap you back into fitness!
Oh and keep riding the old clunker, when you get back onto your road bike you will at least feel a little fitter instantly 🙂
Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly?
I'm saying the same thing Tim. Three weeks ago I was at peak fitness, then I had two weeks of a stomach infection, and now I feel like I haven't exercised for 6 months.
On 2006-09-26, DaveB (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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TimC said:
Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly?
I'm saying the same thing Tim. Three weeks ago I was at peak fitness, then I had two weeks of a stomach infection, and now I feel like I haven't exercised for 6 months.
Who are these liars who reckon tapering is good? And give me a another beer, dammit 🙂
There's lots of pollen in the air (the horizon is really murky (we could see the shadow the observatory was casting on the murk on the horizon, at sunset, today)). Just walking outside onto the dome catwalk makes my lungs burn. And it smells rather.... bushy.
-- TimC "This company performed an illegal operation but they will not be shut down." -- Scott Harshbarger from consumer lobby group on Microsoft
Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly?
I'm saying the same thing Tim. Three weeks ago I was at peak fitness, then I had two weeks of a stomach infection, and now I feel like I haven't exercised for 6 months.
bummer, I broke my collarbone 2 weeks ago. So 6 weeks = 18 months? Maybe if I stop eating? at least I won't put on the flab.
Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly?
I'm saying the same thing Tim. Three weeks ago I was at peak fitness, then I had two weeks of a stomach infection, and now I feel like I haven't exercised for 6 months.
bummer, I broke my collarbone 2 weeks ago. So 6 weeks = 18 months? Maybe if I stop eating? at least I won't put on the flab.
Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly?
I'm saying the same thing Tim. Three weeks ago I was at peak fitness, then I had two weeks of a stomach infection, and now I feel like I haven't exercised for 6 months.
bummer, I broke my collarbone 2 weeks ago. So 6 weeks = 18 months? Maybe if I stop eating? at least I won't put on the flab.
Andre
Andre,
Simon mentioned your accident. Sorry to hear about the collar bone. I hope it heals soon. I've been off for a week and a half due to the flu. Not one of those nasty colds that people loosely refer to as flue but the real deal. I felt like death. Finally back on the bike on Monday and was surprised at how well I went... until I got home last night! Slept like a baby! Better to have muscle soreness from exercise than from the flu though, believe me.
Isn't there some sort of superstition that if you don't ride a bike before sunrise you shrivel up and die? Or have I mixed it up with something else?
Friday
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Aeek said:
DaveB said:
TimC wrote:
>Geez the air is thin up here. Oh damn, who am I kidding? How the >heck did I lose fitness so damn quickly? >
I'm saying the same thing Tim. Three weeks ago I was at peak fitness, then I had two weeks of a stomach infection, and now I feel like I haven't exercised for 6 months.
bummer, I broke my collarbone 2 weeks ago. So 6 weeks = 18 months? Maybe if I stop eating? at least I won't put on the flab.
