Very weird I'm telling you. Last night I had a dream and as I think is typical of many people I can remember only one little part of it. That part however is extremely vivid. I think that I was with some former co-workers and wherever we were, there was a pond of some kind. At one point there was an armadillo in the water. Someone commented on it but immediately the armadillo morphed into some kind of prehistoric creature with it's mouth on it's leg. The leg looked remotely like a cucumber and you couldn't see the mouth until it opened it. And open it it did, when my grandson Colby suddenly appeared to feed the creature a chocolate muffin. Yes, a chocolate muffin. I remember that part better than anything. I can still see the muffin. It was one of those large ones like you get at Tim Hortons!
Weird eh? Just had to share it.
I think the dream was still on my mind when I went to the gym this morning as I was definitely a little preoccupied. I looked everywhere for the handwritten copy of my weight routine and finally gave up. I must have left it sitting in the gym last time or I had left it at home. Since I only crafted this routine 2 weeks ago it was still not imprinted on my memory so it meant starting all over. So I laboriously went from exercise to exercise, and reconstructed settings and weights for all 16 exercises. Frustrating!
But it is what it is, so I did my workout and this time when I was done I was careful to nicely fold my piece of paper and proceeded to find a safe place for it. Since I actually leave my gym shorts in my bag it occurred to me that the pocket would be a good place for it....so I stuck it in there....right beside my old one!!
And speaking of age I was talking to a nice gentleman at the gym who has the misfortune of suffering from multiple sclerosis. He moves from machine to machine in his wheelchair. We got chatting and somehow age came up. Turns out he is 61 years old and I remember my immediate reaction was that he looked extremely good for a guy that was that old!! I didn't think about his illness, just his age. In my mind he was a senior citizen. Then I realized he was a mere 4 years older than me...hmmmm...
Despite my age training does continue. I had a nice 25 km run on Sunday and that distance continues to be relatively easy. It is clear however that I can not maintain the overall pace I've set out to maintain. Alas, I have decided to drop my weight routine down to once per week for the next while. I really don't want to, but the bike workouts take so much out of my legs that I simply can't maintain both, and still have decent sessions. I'm also considering alternating long runs with long rides, instead of trying to do both each week. Just thinking though.
Oh and by the way, Roo told me about a recent dream she had which apparently involved me dancing naked in the street. Why can't I have such dreams? And no smart alec comments about that being a nightmare, not a dream, thank you very much!!
(swim drills, weights, run 7.3kms)
Love
Peter
Weird eh? Just had to share it.
I think the dream was still on my mind when I went to the gym this morning as I was definitely a little preoccupied. I looked everywhere for the handwritten copy of my weight routine and finally gave up. I must have left it sitting in the gym last time or I had left it at home. Since I only crafted this routine 2 weeks ago it was still not imprinted on my memory so it meant starting all over. So I laboriously went from exercise to exercise, and reconstructed settings and weights for all 16 exercises. Frustrating!
But it is what it is, so I did my workout and this time when I was done I was careful to nicely fold my piece of paper and proceeded to find a safe place for it. Since I actually leave my gym shorts in my bag it occurred to me that the pocket would be a good place for it....so I stuck it in there....right beside my old one!!
And speaking of age I was talking to a nice gentleman at the gym who has the misfortune of suffering from multiple sclerosis. He moves from machine to machine in his wheelchair. We got chatting and somehow age came up. Turns out he is 61 years old and I remember my immediate reaction was that he looked extremely good for a guy that was that old!! I didn't think about his illness, just his age. In my mind he was a senior citizen. Then I realized he was a mere 4 years older than me...hmmmm...
Despite my age training does continue. I had a nice 25 km run on Sunday and that distance continues to be relatively easy. It is clear however that I can not maintain the overall pace I've set out to maintain. Alas, I have decided to drop my weight routine down to once per week for the next while. I really don't want to, but the bike workouts take so much out of my legs that I simply can't maintain both, and still have decent sessions. I'm also considering alternating long runs with long rides, instead of trying to do both each week. Just thinking though.
Oh and by the way, Roo told me about a recent dream she had which apparently involved me dancing naked in the street. Why can't I have such dreams? And no smart alec comments about that being a nightmare, not a dream, thank you very much!!
(swim drills, weights, run 7.3kms)
Love
Peter
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