The morning after Thanksgiving, the fam has this tradition of getting together at the oligarchs' casa and having a huge breakfast. we make waffles, and decorate them with sundry edible things to look like Santa. Thereafter, the kids decorate ye olde Tannenbaum. i decorated my waffle with about five eggs, sausage, and bacon. Thus laden with 4,000 calories in protein and not-particularly-complex carbs, i (once again) dodged the pagan rituals, and clumb. i only went to get a tiny pump on before hitting the library for research. Very low expectations. Plus there were scads of n00bs climbing every available patch of wall in tennis shoes. But then a group of some pretty motivated folks came along, and i hooked up with 'em and sent a hard v5. That was among the more encouraging things that've happened to me recently. i've spent the last year training and getting progressively weaker, and perpetually injured; then in the last two months i'm hitting stuff i wouldn't have thought of before--even with a couple of damaged fingers. i literally hadn't sent a v5--or probably even a real v4--in over a year. i don't get it, but i'll surely take it and be thankful for it.
Today i did a bike/run brick. 1hr ride, then a 20min run. i rent them asunder with perhaps the longest transition ever recorded in a brick, but that's what you get when you change outta winter bike gear into winter running gear. That was character building, and i'm frankly glad i've got a li'l time 'til triathlon season.
The cost of all this training is that i really haven't been studying enough. i'm pretty much gonna be living at school for the next two weeks to try to pass the quarter. Mostly, i'd appreciate prayers that i can get inspired for my capstone proposal. i honestly have never had writer's block like this, and i can't afford it now.
2 comments:
you should do you capstone project on the anabolic effects of butter.
I like butter.
i guess that's kinda what i'm planning on doing it on. Thing is, it's really hard to talk in scientific terms about "anabolic" vs "catabolic". i mean, you can talk about it on a cellular level, but talking about a systemic anabolic state...very tricky. i'm trying to find info on dietary fatty acids and their effects on systemic inflammation markers, and even that's pretty dang hard. And apparently there's a raging debate out there on just what role the sundry breeds of fat play in causing disease states. For example, you read some papers and they'll flatly say that saturated fat is bad, PUFAs are good. The next paper will say exactly the opposite. It's the devil to parse apart. i like it; i just wish it were all i have to do. But it ain't.
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