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Pearls Before Swine
In today's Pearls Before Swine comic strip, Rat knows that he's lazy and wouldn't go to a gym if he joined. So he joined the most-expensive gym in town. Since he is also selfish and greedy, he wouldn't be able to bear knowing that he had given them all that money and wasn't getting anything for it. So his sins are battling for supremacy. I sort of used to do that, but it was lazy and lazy duking it out. We belonged to a Nautilus club in the local racquet club. I arranged my training rides to pass by it because a session of weight training is a good way to even out after repeating the same motions for hours -- Nautilus isolates muscles, so from the viewpoint of any one muscle, one is engaging in thirty seconds of maximum effort and half an hour of total rest -- and a ten-mile bike ride is a good way to warm down from a weight-training session. I had one fifty-mile route that started out going south in the Hudson Valley, went up into the hilltowns above the Eastern Cliffs of the Helderbergs, and came down north of the Racquet Club. And every time I approached the club, I reflected that I didn't feel up to lifting weights. I definitely wasn't up to riding ten more miles. So I went in to use the pay phone to call for a ride. But I was too tired to make the call; I needed a long cold shower first. When I came out of the shower, I had two choices for getting dressed: my sweat-soaked cycling clothes, or the work-out outfit in my locker. Well, as long as I'm dressed for it, I might as well go upstairs and do my warm-up exercises; a little stretching would feel really good. Half an hour later I was evened out and my clothes had aired, so I put them on and rode home. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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