It's ALL YOU NEED

212° The Extra Degree, by Sam Parker and Mac Anderson. "At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. It's that extra degree that can power a locomotive…or take your life results far beyond your expectations. By taking ownership of this fundamental principle, focusing on a clearly-defined goal, maintaining an unstoppable attitude, committing to take action, and persevering, you'll see life-altering, positive results. The message of 212° The Extra Degree is clear: It's your life: You are responsible for your results. It's time to turn up the heat! "

1. Identify What it Takes to Be Really Fast
Following a peak performance, you will have a solid record of every detail it took to get there. What was your body weight when you were really fast? This is a super-useful piece of data. The lightest weight you can achieve is never the weight at which you are the fastest. How long was your taper? What were your final key workouts? Entire article at Active. com here.


So, what is the true work of man? Surely, the true work of man is to discover truth, God; it is to love and not to be caught in his own self-enclosing activities. In the very discovery of what is true there is love, and that love in man's relationship with man will create a different civilization, a new world. Read more at Jiddu-Krishnamurti.net

Spanner Films and Global Warming.


GREAT 90 minute session in the House of Mirth this morning, following on the wild romp through the Grand Forest last night. I am so honored and blessed to be able to accompany you all, however temporary, on this glorious adventure. Thank you.

Tomorrow is our local, annual 33 miler to kick off the cycling season. We know it has hills and its very title leaves little room for doubt as to the adjacent weather. Looks like it will be another Chilly Hilly.

I was looking for some research info and found these three little gems (above lifts) in my bookmark queue and thought they might add some expansion to our usual topics. (I was asked yesterday why all the attention to LOVE of late), and although I stumbled with a response on the spot, subsequently I came up with a clearer answer (so much for quick recall of specific fact, Alex). Reasons why I spend so much time on the subject of LOVE.

1) It is in my mission statement on the open page (last line).
2) I think it is important.
3) Everything else hinges on its success.
4) Or is impacted by its failure, loss or impurity.
5) It's all you need.
6) It is something good you can do to your neighbor when all else fails.
7) I happen to enjoy the feeling of being in it.
8) One of these days I might even figure out how to keep it, once found.
9) It is a vital link to passion, and without passion, I wouldn't be here.
10) It is good practice, this unconditional concept.

There is ten. There are a hundred more. Maybe a thousand. The Saturday mash-up sounds like this (c# minor please):

One degree from boiling is where we spin
So you log what it takes to feel this fast
then discover the truth in work and in love
While this blue orb assumes the heat of our technology
and tries to cool its core.
And we'll ride 33 tomorrow and think that maybe
John Lennon was right.

Pic: The triathlete on the right, Aaron Scheidies is blind. That white cord is not from ear buds. Humbling, no? Lake Stevens, WA 2010, an RCVman photo.