Sometimes, often, alot...I am ninja in my mind.
The character for the word 'nin' in ninja means ‘to endure’ or ‘to persevere’. It combines the character for knife on top of the character for heart, it means to go on despite having your heart under the knife!
Thus, a ninja is somebody who perseveres with his (or her) heart’s intentions even under threat or pressure. This ninja philosophy is really simple to remember, and is summed up in 2 words: keep going.
This week's goals shake out like this...4,400 swim, 92 bike, 20 run. A little shuffle to the schedule and I am off. Monday consisted of a 13 mile ride Z2 - Z3, worked thru the Troy Jacobson Base Builder video, good stuff. After work, I did the loop, at twilight...6.4 nice and smooth.
Tuesday started with 2,000 in the pool and I felt a little like a tugboat that accidently and unknowingly dropped its anchor and was just keeping on...Slowly, I found a pseudo-groove, and then I was done. My (other) two girls...Amy and Jess, beat me up a teence, helping me work out all the kinks that I worked so hard to put in place over the last few weeks...Amy's 20 or so needles in both my legs got the ball rolling. I had to opt out of the 'toe bleeding' as it frightened me something terrible. Jess, on her game, further went to town on my legs, with a fancy elbow-to-rectus femoris massage technique that was brutal but welcomed.
Looking forward, I have a 62-miler this week, which will most likely need to be done on the dreaded trainer, as the snow is bound to roll in. My parents are also coming into town, and the plan is to frame out the basement with my dad, and have some fun in Boulder, definitely going to the Kitchen and also planning to see the Banff Film Festival at the Boulder Theater.
So, as training begins to ramp up for all of us and the pressures of daily life don't seem to really ever give in, know that there is a ninja in you, in me...in all of us. Regardless of the event, the day, the hardship... Go bravely on, my friend, keep going...We are Ninja.
The character for the word 'nin' in ninja means ‘to endure’ or ‘to persevere’. It combines the character for knife on top of the character for heart, it means to go on despite having your heart under the knife!
Thus, a ninja is somebody who perseveres with his (or her) heart’s intentions even under threat or pressure. This ninja philosophy is really simple to remember, and is summed up in 2 words: keep going.
This week's goals shake out like this...4,400 swim, 92 bike, 20 run. A little shuffle to the schedule and I am off. Monday consisted of a 13 mile ride Z2 - Z3, worked thru the Troy Jacobson Base Builder video, good stuff. After work, I did the loop, at twilight...6.4 nice and smooth.
Tuesday started with 2,000 in the pool and I felt a little like a tugboat that accidently and unknowingly dropped its anchor and was just keeping on...Slowly, I found a pseudo-groove, and then I was done. My (other) two girls...Amy and Jess, beat me up a teence, helping me work out all the kinks that I worked so hard to put in place over the last few weeks...Amy's 20 or so needles in both my legs got the ball rolling. I had to opt out of the 'toe bleeding' as it frightened me something terrible. Jess, on her game, further went to town on my legs, with a fancy elbow-to-rectus femoris massage technique that was brutal but welcomed.
Looking forward, I have a 62-miler this week, which will most likely need to be done on the dreaded trainer, as the snow is bound to roll in. My parents are also coming into town, and the plan is to frame out the basement with my dad, and have some fun in Boulder, definitely going to the Kitchen and also planning to see the Banff Film Festival at the Boulder Theater.
So, as training begins to ramp up for all of us and the pressures of daily life don't seem to really ever give in, know that there is a ninja in you, in me...in all of us. Regardless of the event, the day, the hardship... Go bravely on, my friend, keep going...We are Ninja.
2 comments:
since I'm a Ninja, can I throw little sharp disks at people? Always wanted to do that.
That "dreaded trainer" teaches me to be a Ninja. Its a HARD lesson!
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