And they work! Well mostly anyway. I'm referring of course to my new Garmin power meter pedals. I got power and cadence measures, but couldn't seem to get averages for either. Once I put it aside for the evening I think I figured out why. It's looking for movement, and since I'm sitting in the basement not going anywhere, the GPS is stopping the timer. That's what I think anyway. I know that calculating average is a function of the bike computer (not the pedals), so I'm sure I'll figure it out. Tomorrow I'll try it with the satellite function turned off.
I also fixed my microwave installation, and am now very happy with the situation!! No one else cares, but I don't care, that they don't care…it needed done!
It was an easy day as promised. I can't believe what the bike workouts are doing to me. I hope it means I'm gaining lots of fitness, rather than just one more indicator of my old body falling apart. Both my achilles and my shoulder are still keeping me honest. I'm doing what I can to get a handle on both.
Today after my swim I spent more than half an hour in the hot tub, stretching and bending and massaging. I'm very grateful that I have the time to do it, and generally find it psychologically therapeutic, as well as physical. Well, most of the time anyway. Today when I climbed in there were 2 gentlemen in there, one of them talking and the other listening. I didn't pay any attention except to note the fact that the talker kept talking, as the listener was trying to leave. He finally shut up when the guy got 20 feet away. It took him all of about 30 seconds to try to pick up a conversation with me, but I never heard what he initially said, and out of courtesy asked him to repeat it. He said, "I was just telling that fellow"….and I thought, oh no!…"now you're gonna tell me aren't you?" Yup! That was his opening salvo, and sure enough he immediately started in about some satellite radio gizmo that he just bought. Well with all the background noise of the hot tub, and my messed up hearing, the only way I was gonna hear him was to sit close, and to watch his lips move, neither of which I was interested in doing. Not because either one of those would make me uncomfortable, but rather because both of them would imply that I was interested in hearing what he had to say. It was a painful 10 minutes of head nodding and smiling at what I guessed might be the right times, because truly, I never heard a word he said for the entire time!
And although that was a bit annoying, the next visitor made up for it, and then some. He also liked talking, but instead of opening with, "I was just telling that fella", he started out with "Happy Birthday!" My guest was a mentally challenged adult, and as much as the previous guy annoyed me, this guy only made me smile. I never understood most of what he said either, but my smiles were not feigned in his case. Happy Birthday indeed!
swim 1250 metres, weights
"Children learn to smile from their parents."---Shinichi Suzuki
"If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work"---George Carlin
Love
Peter
I also fixed my microwave installation, and am now very happy with the situation!! No one else cares, but I don't care, that they don't care…it needed done!
It was an easy day as promised. I can't believe what the bike workouts are doing to me. I hope it means I'm gaining lots of fitness, rather than just one more indicator of my old body falling apart. Both my achilles and my shoulder are still keeping me honest. I'm doing what I can to get a handle on both.
Today after my swim I spent more than half an hour in the hot tub, stretching and bending and massaging. I'm very grateful that I have the time to do it, and generally find it psychologically therapeutic, as well as physical. Well, most of the time anyway. Today when I climbed in there were 2 gentlemen in there, one of them talking and the other listening. I didn't pay any attention except to note the fact that the talker kept talking, as the listener was trying to leave. He finally shut up when the guy got 20 feet away. It took him all of about 30 seconds to try to pick up a conversation with me, but I never heard what he initially said, and out of courtesy asked him to repeat it. He said, "I was just telling that fellow"….and I thought, oh no!…"now you're gonna tell me aren't you?" Yup! That was his opening salvo, and sure enough he immediately started in about some satellite radio gizmo that he just bought. Well with all the background noise of the hot tub, and my messed up hearing, the only way I was gonna hear him was to sit close, and to watch his lips move, neither of which I was interested in doing. Not because either one of those would make me uncomfortable, but rather because both of them would imply that I was interested in hearing what he had to say. It was a painful 10 minutes of head nodding and smiling at what I guessed might be the right times, because truly, I never heard a word he said for the entire time!
And although that was a bit annoying, the next visitor made up for it, and then some. He also liked talking, but instead of opening with, "I was just telling that fella", he started out with "Happy Birthday!" My guest was a mentally challenged adult, and as much as the previous guy annoyed me, this guy only made me smile. I never understood most of what he said either, but my smiles were not feigned in his case. Happy Birthday indeed!
swim 1250 metres, weights
"Children learn to smile from their parents."---Shinichi Suzuki
"If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work"---George Carlin
Love
Peter
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