Well I sure don't have enough of that. It amazes me when I see people who can bend down and put their hands on the floor without bending their knees, or lift one foot higher than their head. I just don't have it physically, and I should be working harder to increase mine as it is a key factor in injury prevention.
Just as importantly however I need to work on my personal flexibility. I like to have everything planned and sometime get frustrated when stuff happens. But I was pretty good this morning I think when old man winter frustrated my plans. I had spent at least a half hour getting dressed for a bike ride, only to be delayed by the fact that the replacement part for our furnace had arrived. Since we had already been without heat for almost 24 hours I decided to do that quick repair before heading out. By the time I got it done and came back upstairs it was snowing. I know it's not something that would stop Mary but alas I am a chicken when it comes to riding on icy pavement on skinny tires. Actually I'm not a chicken, I just know it would be suicide, and I know it would make my training that much harder if I were dead. So I took all those clothes off and put on a bunch of other clothes and went for a 10 k run. There will be another day for bike riding.
I wish to dedicate day 63 to my grampa Wilhelm Scheepers, the other guy I was named after. I bet he rode his bike all winter.
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."---Tom Robbins
"The bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you refuse to take the turn."---Anon
...and for the educated and sophisticated types out there...
"Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un geometrique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pensee."---Pascal Blaise
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Just to clarify; I never CHOOSE to ride in ice and snow but sometimes I get caught up in it when the roads are clear in the morning when I leave for work but not so much when it's time to go home. Like yesterday, lovely at 6:45am but snowing like a bitch at 3:30. Fell off and hurt my pride!!
On a completely different topic. I was thinking about your food dilemna when biking. Can you put some carbohydrate rich liquid in your bladder and suck in your calories with your water?
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