Actually I have three books plus some more.
Oh and a recipe box too.
Those thoughts went through my head at 2:32AM today.
I rolled over and felt a pulled muscle in my shoulder twinge from some athletic endeavors over the weekend and it brought me awake, quickly.
Some have scratch pads, recipe books, and other ways to save things.
I have had a blog since 2009 or so. Mind you, it never really took off so I just use it to store random rantings that I have from time to time.
It is especially useful for recipes.
This business of workouts, and cardio, and more athletic nonsense? It burns a lot of calories per hour. On a bike, it is about 1000 calories, on skates it is 1500. I tried explaining that to a doctor once and I got told that I was related to Thor and Hera and one of the Greek Pantheon.
I can't say that is true, the number of times I fall off my bike and skates is a bit too high. They would protect their own.
But it gives me an excuse to eat a lot of carbohydrates. Double desserts are not completely unheard of. After all, it takes a lot of fuel to move someone through four dimensions.
I have a way of doing things. It is straight forward, and it got me through this soup that we call a South Florida summer. I actually performed through the high summer. Raw temperatures are higher in the big cities like Philadelphia, but the humidity here is like working out in someone else's shower or even steam bath.
One lap in the park is roughly 4.5 miles.
Three laps is a little more than a half marathon once I finish tanking up.
I go around the park three times, then get back to the Jeep. In there is a bag of cookies, home made of course. I take one, 100 calories worth, and sit on the bumper of the Jeep. It is like having a properly sized bench waiting for my use.
After the cookie is done, a thermos of ice water is downed, and I ride to the Golf Pro shop. Ice and water is available.
Now back to the workout.
Two more laps at just under 10 miles.
I would give you all the metric equivalents, but just think Long.
Repeat on the bumper of the Jeep. That other cookie, that other bottle of ice water.
I keep hearing stories of how it is difficult to keep a high level of activity in a Tropical Summer, and it is. Just don't stop. Train to that level and you will make it.
Think of the Rift Valley in Africa. After all, we all are descended from people who decided to leave there and go to every corner of the planet.
If the weather holds, and I am checking the weather radar on each water stop, I will do another lap. That is a full marathon plus a mile. That lap I call the "Ego Lap". It seems to me that it is more for bragging rights than a need for training, but I have trained to need those six laps, 27.75 miles on the bike.
I was there on skates but the trail proved too dangerous for that. I have to work through that.
Back to those recipes. This link here will point you to a search on Duck Duck Go for my site for all recipes it finds. You can choose for yourself but every single one was made by my own two grubby paws. Some are better than others.
The Biscuits,
The Pizza Dough,
The Mango Jelly,
The Quaker Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies are all favorites.
The Leaked KFC Recipe has the spice mix on my counter right now. Just measure it out by Teaspoon, and add it to two cups of Self Rising Flour. I will say that I go lighter than that, and find the spices to be better at two tablespoons per cup flour.
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