Bedrock & Paradox

I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

Outside

Got there this afternoon, finally.  First ride on the Lenz in over two weeks.  Parents visiting, bad weather, fell off the horse.

The path to heaven is paved with larch needles.

Efficiency and motivation cross-pollinate between different aspects of my life.  Slipping in one often leads to slipping in others, and spires downwards from there.  This weekend I decided to pull out of the funk, and am mostly there.  I just finished a single-subject design trial, testing my times up Sentinel without and with music (5+ minute difference across seven trials of each, significant at p<.001), and much of the background reading has been exercise physiology articles concerning perceived exertion.  
In the end, it all comes back to the mind.  Control it, and so much unseen is possible.  I’m better than I used to be.  In school I can recognize the traps, and to a large extent know how to get out of them.  I still need to improve at saving myself early, which is a project in the next year and a half.
M and I also went to the 2008 Banff Mountain Film Fest world tour this evening.  Worth the price of admission, though uneven.  One can only watch Ryan Leech ride across cables so much, after all.  The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing was a good upper-level home movie about some sick backcountry trips, and Red Gold was a very well done (if overly long) documentary about the human side of Pebble Mine up in Alaska.  Each venue organizer chooses the films shown, and I can’t help but think that ours did a poor job.  Alas.
Get out while you can, winter is coming (damnit).

DaveC

5 responses to “Outside”

  1. Blair Avatar
    Blair

    Nice looking trails for this time of year – we are still wallowing in the dust on south sides and frost on the north! Take a look at ’12 More Turns’ just to keep you sober before the snow really starts to fall:http://www.lifeonterra.com/episode.php?id=77

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  2. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    "I just finished a single-subject design trial, testing my times up Sentinel without and with music (5+ minute difference across seven trials of each, significant at p<.001)"Those are impressive results. Not everyone would have the same, but it makes me wonder how much of what I "can't" do is simply "won't" do.

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  3. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    There are other issues (flaws) with the design. I’ll put the whole thing up when I finish it later this week.Btw, Eric should enter Banff. Is stuff is better than some we saw last night.

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  4. Dave Harris Avatar
    Dave Harris

    Music is an ergogenic aid – no question about that. Why else would NORBA ban it?Any shot at camp lynda this year?? Just thought I’d ask ;)Not so much snow in these parts either. 70F at 5k yesterday was purty nice.

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  5. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    Making CL is a possibility. Not a big one, but I’d like to make it happen.

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