Spent the last 4 days in Zions NP. Anderson Family Reunion took me to the Pondarosa Ranch. So here is a short run down of how the work went while I was gone.
Saturday: 4.26 mile run holding the fastest pace possible
Sunday: REST
Monday:
AM Work - Pondarosa Ranch sits on the hills just outside Zions. So, riding anywhere require me to go downhill before the work began. So, at 5:30AM on Monday I rode 15 miles downhill to the UT9 junction and turned around. It was a long climb back up to the Ranch, but the place was filled with morning light and the silence of being alone. I don't think I saw more then one car the whole time I rode.
PM Work - Tabata: situps, waling lunges, squats, push-ups
Tuesday: The first 5 miles downhill from the Ranch took me almost to the Zions NP entrance. So, I rode downhill for 5 and then another couple over to the entrance. Then I came back to 2x rounds of climbing the 5 miles to our house. The first round took me 16:09 and then back down gave me a 12:00 rest. The second round took me 16:05. It was a great training ride filled with snorting, grunting and 185+ heart rates.
Wednesday:
12x 400m sprints w/ 2:00 rests in-between. Each round can't be more than :10 slower then the fastest 400m.
From Seth Godin:
The arrogance of willful ignorance
People have come before us, failed, learned, written it down. Scientists have figured out what works, and proven it. Economists have gained significant understanding about the long-term impacts of short-term decisions. And historians have seen it all before.
How dare we, then, decide to just wing it? To skip class. To make up history. To imagine that science is a matter of opinion, something optional, a diversion for the leisure classes... How can we work in the marketing tech field, for example, without knowing about David Ogilvy and Lester Wunderman and Claude Hopkins? Or Kaushik and Shirky?
If you're doing important work (and I'm hoping you are), then you owe it to your audience or your customers or your co-workers to learn everything you can. Feel free to ignore what you learn, but at least learn it.
1 comment:
Last night is the only workout I need to report results for. It was a long 1+ hour workout at the Skyline track. I warmed up with some lunges, stairs and squats. Then started busting out the 400m sprints. I kept the first 8 rounds within :10 seconds, but for the last 4x 400m where not. Maybe it was the 5+ hours spent in the car driving home, or the caramels Grammy made for us at the family reunion. Either way, the conversations I started having with myself after round 9 wore my brain out more then my body.
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