But you know what they say? Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades!!
Today I entered a whole new world of pain, and the worst of it is that it is self inflicted pain. As I mentioned last week my recent terrific bike test result generated a new set of workout parameters, and quite frankly I don't know if I can maintain them. The heart of today's workout was 6 repeats of 6 minutes duration, at 221 watts, with 3 minutes of recovery between each interval. By the 5th one my legs were dead and I ended up at 211 watts. Somehow I plowed my way through the last one, managing to get it back up to the required 221! So 5 out of 6 constitutes 'close' I guess.
My next scheduled session is on Thursday and is supposed to be two 20 minute intervals at 200 watts. I'm gonna do my best with it, but if I can't maintain I will dial the whole thing back a bit. I acknowledge that my test ride was quite exceptional and I'm pretty sure that if I entered a lower number I would still be on track and then some. I'll let you know how Thursday goes.
You know by now that I don't like to do anything that can remotely be considered quitting, but after all, if the Pope can quit, who am I to make myself out as better than him??
Speaking of the Popehood, I'm thinking of running for the job. Do you think I have the qualifications? After all the job can't be that hard. I'm pretty sure that if you ask any of my siblings they would assure you that I can learn to be a pretentious, hypocritical, delusional old fart without even making much effort!! I suppose my only draw back may be that I would request the truth out of a few more people than the last 266 have done. I suppose that if they made me the Pope it would probably be the end of the line. They would surely disband the job after I was done. That may be fitting I suppose since the first Pope was apparently a Peter as well....I think....the nuns told me that so it may well be a lie.
And my favorite of all 266 Popes before me....Pope Hilarius (461-468)
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Peter
Today I entered a whole new world of pain, and the worst of it is that it is self inflicted pain. As I mentioned last week my recent terrific bike test result generated a new set of workout parameters, and quite frankly I don't know if I can maintain them. The heart of today's workout was 6 repeats of 6 minutes duration, at 221 watts, with 3 minutes of recovery between each interval. By the 5th one my legs were dead and I ended up at 211 watts. Somehow I plowed my way through the last one, managing to get it back up to the required 221! So 5 out of 6 constitutes 'close' I guess.
My next scheduled session is on Thursday and is supposed to be two 20 minute intervals at 200 watts. I'm gonna do my best with it, but if I can't maintain I will dial the whole thing back a bit. I acknowledge that my test ride was quite exceptional and I'm pretty sure that if I entered a lower number I would still be on track and then some. I'll let you know how Thursday goes.
You know by now that I don't like to do anything that can remotely be considered quitting, but after all, if the Pope can quit, who am I to make myself out as better than him??
Speaking of the Popehood, I'm thinking of running for the job. Do you think I have the qualifications? After all the job can't be that hard. I'm pretty sure that if you ask any of my siblings they would assure you that I can learn to be a pretentious, hypocritical, delusional old fart without even making much effort!! I suppose my only draw back may be that I would request the truth out of a few more people than the last 266 have done. I suppose that if they made me the Pope it would probably be the end of the line. They would surely disband the job after I was done. That may be fitting I suppose since the first Pope was apparently a Peter as well....I think....the nuns told me that so it may well be a lie.
And my favorite of all 266 Popes before me....Pope Hilarius (461-468)
Love
Peter
I admire your persistence with your workouts and have the utmost respect of your opinions of the new job you are applying for.
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