Cape walk in September
It is settling into a more consistent routine with the inconsistent parts the cross training not part of the programme. That adds a little spice in the mundane training of a single sport .
I lack strength and fitness so the long road to building the strength with weights and cycling on my mountain bike and even Yoga with body balance such as standing on one leg has been helpful.
The trick is to build and be consistent.In addition it is now a week of starting the day meditating.Not always successful with the mind wandering but always recognizing the mind is imperfect and bringing ones thoughts back to focusing on the meditation Being in the now. In addition reading Grahaks book and Sri Chinmoys book on meditation,makes the exercise quite time consuming .
I have also listened to the odd podcast including Ultra running Podcast called DNF .this week it was an interview with Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie,( A short piece on him in Men's Health Journal)
The discussion is about ultra running and how it can heal .that is the take away line I got. the title of the podcast is Kintsugi the Japanese Art of porcelain repair :
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"),[1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.[2][3][4] As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.[5]
It displays the cracks and makes it the focus.Like Kintsugi , ultra running can be the glue or gold that repairs the fault lines of our lives as in the case of Ben Gibbard.
Like all endurance events there is the mundane element of training and the freedom of the surrounds of trail running .The suffering to replace the pain for some .The joy of overcoming the challenge.
This week a bit of coughing on the runs whichis the norm for me presently but the throat settles down after a few kms on the run. The hard session is hill work on Mount Street .Other than that it has been fine.
this week the sessions are :
Monday
Meditation for 10 minutes in the morning
Cycle session at the Gym and 15 minutes strength work at the Gym
Tuesday
Meditaion and a hill work out at the end of the day on Mount Street.
Wednesday
Gym strength, Yoga for an hour and meditation
Thursday
Easy Run, meditation and weights at the Gym for 40 minutes
Friday
Dog walk ,Bike to work and back and meditation
Saturday
1 hour walking with hard fast for 20 minutes and meditation
Sunday
2 hours with 6 minutes run and 3 minutes walk for 15 kms and meditation
Total 12 hours
The run on Sunday was hard and slow and felt a little tired despite the very low volume.
Still overweight and slowly dropping the kgs and trying to build fitness slowly. Still coughing every run but once I have coughed it out I settle to breathing easily.
The meditation is hard as the mind struggles to focus but I have to just keep bringing it back from rambling thoughts that enter the head .Somedays are better than others.
In a way my own cracks in respect to the ups and down of my fitness health life feelings are all that make it part of that journey the uniqueness that our experiences brings in moving forward and the uniqueness' in the cracks that are our Kintsugi. We can treasure them and build from them or dissolve in them ,forever defining us and being our weakness our achilless heal., forever holding us back.
If anything 2020 has been a year that has shown us what is important and what is not .Life is precious and to live it is to experience everything even the bad days ,are lessons we can cherish , Learn and thrive from all the experiences if we allow ourselves the opportunity. This week has been pretty average but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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