I have a confession.
I don’t like to stretch. I also don’t like to lift weights… unless I have someone like Tyler around to give a hard time to the way guys who are good friends do.
I am an action oriented person. Which seems a little strange as I type that, since most of my life has been spent sitting (at a computer). I’ve been “into” computers since I got to use my first TRS-80 at age 10. I’ve been making my living from computers since I started my first company at age 12 writing software for Commodore C-64 computers, which was a significant upgrade from the first computer I owned.
Action hasn’t always meant running Marathons, or riding fixed gear double-centuries, or completing Ironman triathlons. Before my life with fitness, it meant staying up all night coding, or running a record label with Punk bands from Seattle, or whatever other crazy idea I got into my head.
But the fact of the matter is…. I have not yet found a spark in stretching… flexibility.
I tried Yoga… I think I had a pretty good teacher… but it didn’t stick.
I also don’t get massages regularly… which I probably should. My PT says I have “very compact muscles”… I take it as a compliment… but it almost sounds a little like when you brought artwork home to your mom in pre-school and she said “Oh isn’t that INTERESTING”… Uh… is that a euphemism for crap?!
So today… the day after an 18 mile run… a day in which I’ve been too busy to workout… would be a perfect day to go do 30 minutes of stretching… but instead… I’ll blog… and then get stuck reading wikipedia’s definition of euphemism.
Filed under: Cycle, Fitness, Flexibility, Ironman, Run, Yoga, double century, euphemism, exercise, recovery, triathlon
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