The physical recovery is going well. Today I went for a 24 kilometer bike ride and came home sweaty but barely breathing heavy. My muscles are also re-adapting to weight training faster than I could have hoped. The mental recovery… well, that’s another story. I only underwent 100 days of starvation, but as I said one of the worst aspects of it wasn’t the lack of energy or the atrophying muscles, it was becoming a shut-in. But a funny thing [...]
Ah, night riding… Unlike other cities I’ve lived in, where condo developers compete as to who can get their balconies the closest to overhanging bodies of water, my current home of Saskatoon has set aside the riverbanks as park land. This leads to two swaths of green, one on each bank, paved only with narrow walking and biking paths bisecting wide rolling lawns and villages of trees. So there I was, whipping along a bike path, happy as a clam. [...]
I feel like a teenager again. That is to say, my body mass has changed so rapidly my co-ordination is struggling to keep up. I’ve become an uberklutz. It was to be expected, I suppose – I lost 1/4 of my mass in 100 days, then put 1/3 of that back again in about a week. Of the weight I regained so rapidly it went from water weight to replenished fat stores to muscle in a month, redistributing itself and [...]
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill 189.4 lbs. Today I walked around the Broadway area (the artsy, “small town”ish section of my city – like Whyte Ave in Edmonton, Davie Street in Vancouver, and so forth) with a friend of mine visiting from out of town. I had just gone with him to a local bike shop where he’d purchased a bike with a few extra do-dads separately, had them swap the [...]
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