What you need:
1) lots of food for the long day ahead
2) swimming gear to get you awake in the morning
3) reading material for studying
4) loud music to keep you awake
5) A big library that allows talking
6) Room in that library
7) Friends to watch your stuff while you're in the loo
8) Money for when you run out of food, which is inevitable
Start the day off at 7am
wake up, put on some comfortable clothing that would only seem fashionable to Sasquatch.
Swim for an hour or so.
Study - eat -> repeat until out of food
buy more food
repeat previous step
go home at 7 pm
This gives you 1.5 hours of training and 10 hours of studying.
It's not fun, but it has to be done
Friday, December 17, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Winter Workout
As winter becomes ever evident in the city not known for going below zero, I start to hunker down for what could be a fun couple of months of training. Seriously.
Personally, I love the cold; it makes you feel that little extra primal urge to stay alive and pushes you that extra mile to generate enough body heat to stay warm.
The cold also gives you a sense of gratitude for all the things that fortune you. In the summer, I don’t normally think twice about homelessness, but when frost starts to accumulate on my nose as a walk between classes, I feel the plight of the less fortunate more so as their needs hit closer to home.
Their woes are persistent while mine are inconveniences. I can put on more layers if I wanted to, but I don’t because I don’t want to have to wash more clothes than absolutely necessary. This leads me to the topic of winter training: What should one wear to stay warm in such conditions?
Lots. It’s always better to be too hot than too cold, but that being said, there are ways to avoid the hassle of cleaning up bodily fluids.
When it really cold out, for me that’s -10C or so, warm-up on a trainer inside. Then bring your trainer just outside your doorstep and crank it. I’ve noticed whenever I do this, I feel like I can breathe a lot easier. It also reduces the sweat accumulation.
The reason why I warm up inside first is so there is blood in my feet; otherwise, they tend to get very cold. And I know a lot of criticism will be in the form “yeah well, Simon Whitfield trains in his shed in like 40C conditions. What you’re doing is not simulating real world conditions” et al. What I can say to that is, in Vancouver, the warmest race (triathlon) I’ve done was 15C. It took me 2km into the run for my feet to regain sensation. But that’s just me.
This is merely a suggestion for people who want to gain a crap load of power and cadence over the winter, where cycling usually becomes minimal, unless you are a purest like Derrick Lee.
So there you go. I managed to link homelessness in winter with outdoor trainer workouts.
Personally, I love the cold; it makes you feel that little extra primal urge to stay alive and pushes you that extra mile to generate enough body heat to stay warm.
The cold also gives you a sense of gratitude for all the things that fortune you. In the summer, I don’t normally think twice about homelessness, but when frost starts to accumulate on my nose as a walk between classes, I feel the plight of the less fortunate more so as their needs hit closer to home.
Their woes are persistent while mine are inconveniences. I can put on more layers if I wanted to, but I don’t because I don’t want to have to wash more clothes than absolutely necessary. This leads me to the topic of winter training: What should one wear to stay warm in such conditions?
Lots. It’s always better to be too hot than too cold, but that being said, there are ways to avoid the hassle of cleaning up bodily fluids.
When it really cold out, for me that’s -10C or so, warm-up on a trainer inside. Then bring your trainer just outside your doorstep and crank it. I’ve noticed whenever I do this, I feel like I can breathe a lot easier. It also reduces the sweat accumulation.
The reason why I warm up inside first is so there is blood in my feet; otherwise, they tend to get very cold. And I know a lot of criticism will be in the form “yeah well, Simon Whitfield trains in his shed in like 40C conditions. What you’re doing is not simulating real world conditions” et al. What I can say to that is, in Vancouver, the warmest race (triathlon) I’ve done was 15C. It took me 2km into the run for my feet to regain sensation. But that’s just me.
This is merely a suggestion for people who want to gain a crap load of power and cadence over the winter, where cycling usually becomes minimal, unless you are a purest like Derrick Lee.
So there you go. I managed to link homelessness in winter with outdoor trainer workouts.
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