Friday was my first bike climb in a while. Warm awesome spring weather. 74º and fair weather. Amazing that 3 days prior, there was snow on the ground.
The climb felt really slow and hard but, it was a minute faster than my previous, second fastest this yr.
Roark's Cove Rd bike climb
Time - 24:19
Max HR - 184
HR over 170 - 9:34
HR over 180 - 1:25
Avg speed - 5.7 mph
Avg HR - 164
Summer like weather this weekend. Going to be in the 80ºs.
Enjoying watching the World Indoor Championships in Turin, as I lay on my porch, same track I raced on 3 yrs ago.
The months are ticking by but I don't feel an urgency to get back on the track. Having tried to come back too soon and race the 400m indoors resulted in my present setback, but I'm not yet giving up the idea of racing again. Doesn't look like I'll be ready to race this season, at least not the 400m, but I'm thinking about the Worlds in FL a year from now. Maybe the short sprints. Still 4 months to Nationals and I think I could get ready to race short sprints in 2-3 months, but will only train if I'm pain free and feel like I'm NOT damaging myself.
Lot in life going on. My parents declining rapidly at age 84 and 86, I have to manage my mother's health claims and home care. I have a major home building project starting this yr which will more than double the size of my house, a major lifetime project, expensive. It will be likely starting by the summer and continuing all year. A lot of uncertainty in the world with the incompetent US administration starting a war, unstable markets, likely higher prices for everything. My main 401k is down only 2% because of my very conservative holdings, despite the Dow now down 10% from it's peak. The longtime University President resigned and who knows what changes that may bring. Anything negative from that change would likely not happen for more than 2 yrs, but one never knows. I'm fine to retire but would prefer to work 4 more yrs.
Roya just likely got hired by a world-wide engineering firm, a 6 fig job where she can work mostly from home. A huge relief for her after being laid off in Jan. She was previously offered a job from this company and turned it down. At age 64, she's more than happy to take this offer and the benefits package.
With a half time sabbatical coming up next year, I need to get in concert shape on the guitar. I feel the carpal tunnel issue coming on in my R hand, and I probably should have the surgery but so far, I'm ok. Also, continued concerns and surveillance about my organ health with more testing coming up this spring and summer. No glaring issues and I feel ok, especially with the new morning water drinking regime. I was going to get more tests next week to be sure there's no significant changes.
The one variable that has changed is that I completely stopped taking all supplements back in Oct. Anecdotally, a month later the knee started hurting, so I'm going to start 5 grams of collagen a day to see if it helps. I'll have a CMP to make sure it's not affecting my liver enzymes.
Plan for near future is to get strong and light before I try any turf sprints. Will stay with bike and rowing, then graduate to hills and stairs before sprints on the flat. Still hanging around the 145-146 lb weight, and want to be 140-141 before any running.
This was Monday... Tues morning was 24º - Friday was 74º
Spectacular pictures. In contrast, Perth is still getting up to the low 90° most days.
ReplyDeleteWishing you warmer days.
DOW is down 9 percent. VTI down 5.85 percent. But it will get much worse before it gets better. Might take 5 years….keep working if you can…
ReplyDeleteBullshit, pure lefty speculation.
DeleteIt’s all about probability. Everyone agrees that months long closure of the strait and or wide spread destruction of energy production in the region will have severe economic consequences. Could be catastrophic. It needs to open in weeks for the rosiest economic scenario. The only way that will happen is if there is a diplomatic solution which I’m afraid won’t happen. Every military option has high risk with unknown consequences like a regime with nothing to lose taking the world down with them.
DeleteLike I said, lefty speculation, "months long closure of the strait", we'll see, I see the closure ending shortly.
DeleteYea I miscalculated, Dow was down 10% max. Still think it'll get worse before it gets better. Helluva time to be thinking about wrapping up a career, retiring. These are dark days indeed, certainly the worst in my lifetime. The damage to the US internally and in regard to our allies is incalculable. The corruption and self-dealing is on a scale that defies comparison and is so vast, we'll never see justice or the criminals held accountable. This is nothing compared to what could happen if the U.S. dollar loses its status as the primary world reserve currency, then we're talking about a full blown depression. Combine that with a war, and with the national debt increasing more now than ever - a trillion in the last 6 mo, we're likely to see further and severe cuts to health care, and eventually SS. It's pretty bleak ... kind of like bankrupting a casino.
DeleteWe are 100 percent aligned. I’m at 30 percent cash at the moment. 47 percent stock. I may convert more to cash at the risk of losing gains if there is an agreement. But even best case scenario there’s going to be significant economic impact- we aren’t feeling it yet because of the games they are playing.
DeleteRead it again. I said everyone agrees month long closure would be catastrophic, not that there would be a month long closure. That is worse case scenario but possible. Best case scenario is if it opens in a few weeks but even that is going to have significant economic impact. Besides the 4 or 5 weeks closure you can’t magically move all those tankers at once. Many are low on fuel and provisions. Some oil and gas fields sustained damage. All production has been throttled back and will take a few weeks to come all the way back on line. Even the rosiest scenario will be impactful. You don’t take 20 percent of energy out of the world wide economy without creating serious disruption.
DeleteAnd I just read that the orange one said there are productive talks. Thank god as the only off ramp is diplomacy . If so, then how to reign in the Israeli’s? It’s been the tail wagging the dog.
ReplyDeleteCan't decide, are you commie democrat or intellectual elitist?
DeleteYea dude, we're talking about how much money we're making in the stock market, but we're "commies" ... real bright.
DeleteElitist or leftist? I’m an independent with ethics and morals and I care about maintaining prosperity, peace, and security for me, my country and the world. I like to have competent knowledgeable and ethical leaders which we sorely lack and are therefore in a terrible mess. This most cruel corrupt and vindictive administration we have ever had has made a huge mistake where the probability is high that there will be severe economic consequences. It remains to be seen if Trump can get us out of this terrible mess. The problem now is that Iran has huge leverage and not much left to lose and even if we stop they have incentive to keep the straight closed to exact concessions from us.
ReplyDeleteBuy low sell high, great opportunity right now.
ReplyDeleteI’m sitting on cash by luck as I sold a lot of stock last month to buy a new house then two weeks later my old house closed, replenishing the coffers. When this all started my plan was to put 2 percent of my house proceeds cash in per week for cost averaging. So in one year all the way back in. But as things have gotten worse I decided to wait to see what happens.
DeleteI'm not a brainwashed lefty with TDS, so I think after this ends, the world will be in a better place and the economic situation will be even better than before it started. I'm buying in low as we speak, as it drops, because when things are seen turning around, it will happen fast. Call me crazy, but I have faith in the president and the US military, Iran is a paper tiger with no airforce or navy left, propped up by CNN and MSNBC. Anyone still dumb enough to think you can negotiate your way out of this with Iran's track record, good luck. But I expect a lot more negativity and fear in the short-term, especially after Americans face their biggest media-inspired fear "BOOTS ON THE GROUND!" They'll get over it.
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