I won't be signing up for Toastmasters until my course is done in early June. With the golf season starting (now!), and my running and triathlon goals, my calendar is filling up fast. I don't think it would be a good idea to add anything that requires a weekly time commitment or 3-4 hours.
I went to the pool yesterday for the first time since probably last August. I swam for 12.5 minutes and it felt good but I didn't have much more in my than that. I think I'm finally getting my ego under control, training-wise. Just because I did Ironman 2.5 years ago, doesn't mean I can just go out and swim for an hour or bike (at all!) or run a half marathon without putting any training in. This year's goals are small and reasonable; just the way they should be! 8k race in May, sprint triathlon in August, reducing my golf handicap from double-bogey to single-bogey, and a 10k race in October.
I dropped off my tri bike at the local bike shop to have it appraised for sale. It was harder than I thought it would be. I have a lot of emotional attachment to that bike but I don't think I'll be riding it again any time soon. In fact, I don't think I've been on it since the few weeks after IMC 2008! I still have my road bike for my race this summer and that's good enough for me! :)
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wine and health
While researching the Mediterranean diet, I cam across some notes about red wine and saw something I really liked:
Wine and health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In his circa 375 BC play Semele or Dionysus, Eubulus has Dionysus say:
“Three bowls do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first, the second to love and pleasure, the third to sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home. The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence; the fifth to uproar, the sixth to drunken revel, the seventh to black eyes, the eight is the policeman's, the ninth belong to biliousness, and the tenth to madness and hurling the furniture."
All I can say is, SO TRUE! Who hasn't progressed through all these stages, or at least almost all of them. I'm not sure how large Dionysus' bowls were, but I think that they must have been quite large. This is a great reminder to drink in moderation, so as to enjoy the benefits of wine, but not to wake the demons that lie within.
In vino veritas ~~ In wine is truth
Wine and health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In his circa 375 BC play Semele or Dionysus, Eubulus has Dionysus say:
“Three bowls do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first, the second to love and pleasure, the third to sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home. The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence; the fifth to uproar, the sixth to drunken revel, the seventh to black eyes, the eight is the policeman's, the ninth belong to biliousness, and the tenth to madness and hurling the furniture."
All I can say is, SO TRUE! Who hasn't progressed through all these stages, or at least almost all of them. I'm not sure how large Dionysus' bowls were, but I think that they must have been quite large. This is a great reminder to drink in moderation, so as to enjoy the benefits of wine, but not to wake the demons that lie within.
In vino veritas ~~ In wine is truth
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