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Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

In the 1 days ending Oct 2, 2014:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Cycling2 1:29:56 21.36(14.3/h) 34.38(22.9/h) 72
  Total2 1:29:56 21.36(4:13) 34.38(2:37) 72

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Thursday Oct 2, 2014 #

7 AM

Cycling 43:10 [3] 10.69 mi (14.9 mph) +20m

I love the smell of truck exhaust in the morning.
5 PM

Cycling 46:46 [3] 10.67 mi (13.7 mph) +52m

Sometimes it seems illogical to spend X hours a week/month/year training, to little or no apparent result beyond potentially improving the comparison to your former self and/or your peers. What if I spent my X hours doing something else, like learning French? Would I be fluent in French? Perhaps, perhaps no, but I would know plus de Français than I do now. Or I could spend my X hours helping other people, instead of helping myself in very small increments, if at all.

Is training the objectively "best" use of those hours? Certainly there are many worse uses of time - but it seems likely there are better ones, which also may provide a better return on time invested.

The competitive desire is not a logical thing.

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