Confused, disoriented, and just plain bummed. Don't tell me you ain't!
This is how it happened. You did better than expected by making the playoffs which felt pretty good, but at the same time you knew you had no chance of beating the bruins. That's why half way through the third period of game seven you were starting to get delusions of grandeur. I know you were letting yourself think Stanley Cup!! That's the only reason it initially hurt so bad when the whole world came crashing down over a period of 30 minutes.
It was the same with me and my bike program. Success was so surprising such that 3/4 of the way through I had improved my scores by 35%, way beyond the goal of 20% I had originally set. That got me dreaming of crazy stuff like 50% improvement! Today over a period of 30 minutes (my final test ride) it all came crashing down. Because of my delusions I probably started out too hard and despite holding on to an average of 150 half way through I was already out of gas. I finished at 137 watts which means the second half I averaged only 124. I'm a bit disappointed.
However if I were a Leafs fan (heaven help me) and I were to look back at the beginning of the season and imagined taking the Bruins to overtime in game seven, I would have been delighted.
That's the way I need to look at my program. If you told me that I would make a 38% improvement when I set out I would not have believed it possible. I hope the improvement is enough to get me a 5:30 Ironman bike time, and theoretically that should now be possible. My previous times were 6:09 and 5:53. Remember that power gains are not proportionate to speed. To give you an idea of how steep the curve is, it takes twice as much power to ride 40 kms/hr as 30 kms/hr!!
So I'm trying to stay positive about it all, despite an overall feeling of lethargy. I seem to have caught a bit of a bug and I'm also battling a sore foot and a very sore calf muscle. It may even impact my little race on Sunday, in that I'm not sure I can run without doing damage. I have not run for a week and don't plan on doing so until the race. We will see what happens.
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."---Jonathan Swift
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Peter
This is how it happened. You did better than expected by making the playoffs which felt pretty good, but at the same time you knew you had no chance of beating the bruins. That's why half way through the third period of game seven you were starting to get delusions of grandeur. I know you were letting yourself think Stanley Cup!! That's the only reason it initially hurt so bad when the whole world came crashing down over a period of 30 minutes.
It was the same with me and my bike program. Success was so surprising such that 3/4 of the way through I had improved my scores by 35%, way beyond the goal of 20% I had originally set. That got me dreaming of crazy stuff like 50% improvement! Today over a period of 30 minutes (my final test ride) it all came crashing down. Because of my delusions I probably started out too hard and despite holding on to an average of 150 half way through I was already out of gas. I finished at 137 watts which means the second half I averaged only 124. I'm a bit disappointed.
However if I were a Leafs fan (heaven help me) and I were to look back at the beginning of the season and imagined taking the Bruins to overtime in game seven, I would have been delighted.
That's the way I need to look at my program. If you told me that I would make a 38% improvement when I set out I would not have believed it possible. I hope the improvement is enough to get me a 5:30 Ironman bike time, and theoretically that should now be possible. My previous times were 6:09 and 5:53. Remember that power gains are not proportionate to speed. To give you an idea of how steep the curve is, it takes twice as much power to ride 40 kms/hr as 30 kms/hr!!
So I'm trying to stay positive about it all, despite an overall feeling of lethargy. I seem to have caught a bit of a bug and I'm also battling a sore foot and a very sore calf muscle. It may even impact my little race on Sunday, in that I'm not sure I can run without doing damage. I have not run for a week and don't plan on doing so until the race. We will see what happens.
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."---Jonathan Swift
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Peter
once an idiot, always an idiot!! love ya
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