According to all my blood tests, I am perfectly healthy. One of the healthiest patients my doctor has seen. And yet, my condition persists. It it psychosomatic? No clue at this point. My workouts are slowly improving, as is my HR. Most signs are on the up and up.
So, this Saturday will be Cash Register $$$ Day!! That day will be a litmus test. Where is my fitness really at? How much will I need to dial it down? How will I feel on Sunday and Monday? Once I get that far I will see how I feel and make the final decision on whether I am fit and healthy enough to make April a Sufferfest, or if I will need to push it off for a month (or however months I need, but hopefully as few as possible).
April is the best month for it. So, I’d prefer to do it as planned. But, discretion is the better part of valour. So, I have to be prepared to move it to May or June, July, or even August. But I’ve made a promise, and I must upload the honour of my knighthood. So, it will happen sooner than later. And there will be suffering of the proper GvA-approved kind.
The Suffering must (never?) be met with wisdom as well as courage.
If the traverse through Sufferlandria must wait for a full recovery, that in no way diminishes the honour, only ensures that the suffering will be of the most glorious kind when the time comes. Whenever that may be, if i may be granted such grace is I shall be there to join the quest!
There’s now 31 valid KOS elligible workouts. There are also only 30 days in April. I also am only riding 3-4 days per week. So, I’ll have to increase that to 5 days per week and double-up a few days (likely towards the end of the month) to ensure I can get them all in. If worse comes to worse, I’ll push some into May. But that’s putting the cart before the horse.
I don’t have the full month planned out, but I do have week 1.
Here is this week’s plan:
April 1 (tues): Rue Day - Great way to start. Question my life and my decisions.
April 2 (wed) : Do As You’re Told - Yep. Going by the name which seems appropriate.
April 3 (thurs): rest
April 4 (fri): There Is No Try - Giving it the old SUF try.
April 5 (sat): Who Dares - Used to be one of my favorites. Now it’s been de-Suffed, so getting it out of the way.
April 6 (sun): rest
The rest is TBD and may require some day-to-day decisions based on legs and health.
Ouch…but…surely you didn’t mean to include TWO full rest days? Just pointing out the oversight before the Minions catch you.
Best of Suffering to you, Sir!
I would also recommend maybe front loading so you can double up on some of the shorter videos. Did I miss whether you have an order you’re going with, or more by feel?
Sundays are my standard weekly rest days. And I’ll need a second rest day every week based on my current fitness (I’ve been riding only 4 days most weeks, so 5 days is increasing my current workload). So, yeah, that’s a bit of a handicap I’ll have to plan around. And yes, that will also require doubling up on a number of days.
I don’t have a full plan, yet. Mostly just starting it off by feel and planning it according to my schedule. And easing myself into it. And as I work my way through this first week I can develop a better plan for the rest of the month based on how well I cope with this first week.
And yes, it would make the most sense to double up on the shorter videos. And I probably shouldn’t rush off and do all the shortest videos right off the bat.
I was considering starting off with all the shortest videos first. But then that would mean I would have all the longest videos last. And if I don’t double up on the short videos now I will really be in the hurt locker at the end if I have to double up on the long videos.
So, yeah. I’ll need to come up with a good plan once I get thru these first few days so I don’t end up making it even worse.
So, I logged on this morning to ride Do As You’re Told only to find it and Who Dares are currently missing from the library. And then I found Rue The Day which I just rode yesterday is being remastered.
So with that gut punch and my new state of mind, the only apt video to ride was The Downward Spiral.
Man that video hurts. But it hurts so good. I think. Or maybe that’s just the pain suckers talking.
In any case, we’ll see what remains for the rest of this month. Because on top of the missing videos and today’s adjustment, my wife will be having knee surgery the middle of this month. So with her down time I will have to see how that impacts my schedule and availability to ride. I definitely won’t be riding the day of her surgery. So, we will see how things pan out. And we’ll get there when we get there, I guess.
Welp, after today’s kludge-fest of disappearing and reappearing videos, I’ve cobbled together some semblance of a plan. Trying to work it around my son’s birthday and my wife’s knee surgery. At least today’s forced switch-out helped get me to better rework the videos so I don’t front-load all the short ones and better spread them out.
There’s a bunch of really nasty-looking days in there.
But if I need a couple more days off after my wife’s surgery then I can double-up the 28th or 29th.
We will see how this goes down. No way I’m doing it all nuclear. But I did both of my first two days at 100%. And even with my lifetime low numbers I’m feeling it already. There will definitely be plenty of suffering.
I don’t have a lot of intensity in my legs, and even less endurance. So today was definitely going to be a huge test, especially on tired legs from Tues and Wed. Glad I had a rest day yesterday.
So true. I used everything I learned from Rue The Day to get myself ready to suffer today. I kept looking at the clock way too often. And every time I felt myself slip mentally I reminded myself that I knew I was going to suffer today and to accept it. Somehow, that worked. And made it all the way to the end. Even tho it felt like an eternity.
* cough * Sir Evan * cough * 
Yeah. It was rough doing 
