Maybe the machines are calibrated differently but, just maybe, the air has changed for the denser.
I know there are people who love the feeling of physically pushing it to 100% of capacity, but for me it just feels like absolute crap.
I started running again. My pulse is topping out at 175 or so. I think I'm too old to get it higher or too afraid of death to try.
I love the feeling. I'm a beast.
I've never figured out how you know you're at 100%.
Ask a business consultant about giving 110% and then ease off that by 9.1%.
5: If you're still alive to tell about it, you must not have given it your all.
7: I probably shouldn't have written that somewhere that heebie would see it. She practices to the point of passing out for fun.
Anyway, I can figure out 100% pretty easily because I reach a point where I can't move any faster.
In other news, I can report back on contemp class that I have bruises all the fuck over. I was expecting to punish my calves and feet, but they're OK. It's the floor work that does me in: like a really strange, awkward, intense abs workout that leaves me sore for days.
[The physical equivalent of a row with stras?]
That said, I'm squatting ridiculous numbers these days.
What's a contemp class? You go to a gym and sneer at it?
And it sneers back at you for not having a second 't'.
5: 100% never puzzled me that much -- 'as hard as you can' seems clear. Rowing in college, though, the coach asking for 80% would flummox me. Um... pretty hard? I guess?
I figure 100% is fast enough that I can't go any faster, 50% is a brisk walk, and 75% is the fastest I can go for an extended period of time (more than several minutes).
"as fast as you can" makes sense to me. But for things where it's not about how quickly you can move it seems confusing.
13: Row as hard as you can for 4 rows, and take every 5th row off.
But for things where it's not about how quickly you can move it seems confusing.
100% EFFORT! GIVE IT YOUR ALL! YOU CAN DO IT, BIG HITTER!
11: some kind of dance thing I guess?
Possibly a very unusually method of installing flooring.
Contemp class is better than contretemps class.
Yup. we had this problem with Moby earlier.
Meanwhile I just saw that at some time N+1 published a huge thing on Merce Cunningham, and thought: do I want advice from N+1? On dancing? NO JOHN RINGO NO. DO NOT WANT.
Then I thought: hey, at least it's not Jacobin.
We stacked a couple cords at my mother's this weekend and my limpy foot is still fine. Her new sweetie is awesomely competent - he does the chainsaw work - and also a nice guy. Vast relief.
The dwarf lord got overoptimistic about what he could do with a healing elbow and is still in pain, but the PT got him xrays and he's basically fine.
Everybody is limping these days. Though my own limping is not as bad as it was a year ago. Unless the running starts it back up again.
Limping isn't quite as cool as contemp, but it's got more staying power.
I'd just like to clarify: there's actually nothing wrong with my leg; I'm just b-boy limping.
2: This is entirely my problem with racing. I like running and pushing myself but I also like finishing the race feeling strong, not spent.