"Don't Use Drugs"

I'm pretty well convinced that unless you need them to stay alive there are practically no perscription drugs that are worth taking, because enevitably the side effects are just too much. I've tried a myriad of shit over the last year and a half, every time hoping that I was gonna hit on something that was going to alleviate one sympton or another. My latest experiment has been with a sleeping pill called Zopiclone which guess what??? It works! I mentioned that I slept in yesterday morning, and then last night I had the best sleep I have had in forever. Almost 8 hours straight! But here's the other half of the story. Headache, nausea and extreme dizziness for most of the day today. I had touble walking at times and would have to go back to my desk to sit down. I give up. I'll just have to learn to sleep at my desk...oh wait...I already know how to do that.

While on this trip I've tried to spend some more time with my Ironman training books and here's my latest conundrum. I have 2 extensive publications both co-written by serious experts in the sport. While they generally agree that the basis of any program needs to include weekly, a long swim, a long run, and a long ride followed up by a short run, they offer this blatant contradiction. Book one says, "Never do the long bike and the long run back to back, referring to this strategy as "death" weekends. Book two schedules every saturday as the long bike, and every sunday as the long run. Which is it? It can't be both can it?

Hey Larry...thanks for the link...very cool. What I like best is that it will create an altitude profile for you. Very useful for me to judge the grade of hills, and compare them to Penticton.

I wish to dedicate day 189 to my new friend Estanislao Reyes. Because he's a nice guy but also because he has 11 siblings and grew up poor! Now there's a contradiction for you eh? How can one be poor if one has 11 siblings?

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."---Douglas Adams

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."---Blaise Pascal

“Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."---Arnold H. Glasgow

“There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."---Timothy Leary

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peter