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Friday Nov 11, 2011 #
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(rest day)
My right calf felt unpleasant today - possibly from traipsing about the Blue Hills in disintegrating O shoes, so I took a rest day instead of going out on a run. The volume from the coming weekend will be high enough, and almost all in terrain.
I am weary. Even as the busiest month of the O-season has ended, I find my fatigue unceasing. The weekend looks to be restful and will have two races with few responsibility, two days to finish the Traverse revisions, a concert, and dinner with a friend. I have few responsibilities left to discharge before the fall NEOC season ends. If I can get the spring schedule completed and meet with the various committees quickly, I might be able to take December off entirely from organizational responsibilities. Sometimes after so much communication and logistics, I find solitude welcoming. I'm still working on balancing my life in a sustainable way, but even as I tire, life goes on.
I had dinner with a friend tonight and explained my worldview - an atheistic mix of modified utilitarianism and absurdism. I think she though it bleak, and I can sympathize with that interpretation, though I think it realistic.
My next major project will be to coordinate a series of training camps among the northeastern clubs into a coherent schedule. CSU and DVOA regularly have training camps, and the US team has intermittently been to Harriman. My proposal is to get a number of clubs - tentatively DVOA, HVO, EMPO, WCOC, CSU, and NEOC - to each take charge for organizing one training camp open to the public during the year. DVOA already has its Hickory Run camp. I envision primarily using three day weekends outside of the busiest A-meet calendar, with two or three exercises each day. I want to minimize the energy barrier for attendance and for organization - attendees can help with control pickup, all exercises can be advanced level, and hopefully basic housing can be arranged. It's still considerable work, so persuading the clubs to organize may be difficult. But even if there were only four weekend training camps presented as a series, it would be a big step in the right direction.
The morrow comes, and new challenges await.
I am weary. Even as the busiest month of the O-season has ended, I find my fatigue unceasing. The weekend looks to be restful and will have two races with few responsibility, two days to finish the Traverse revisions, a concert, and dinner with a friend. I have few responsibilities left to discharge before the fall NEOC season ends. If I can get the spring schedule completed and meet with the various committees quickly, I might be able to take December off entirely from organizational responsibilities. Sometimes after so much communication and logistics, I find solitude welcoming. I'm still working on balancing my life in a sustainable way, but even as I tire, life goes on.
I had dinner with a friend tonight and explained my worldview - an atheistic mix of modified utilitarianism and absurdism. I think she though it bleak, and I can sympathize with that interpretation, though I think it realistic.
My next major project will be to coordinate a series of training camps among the northeastern clubs into a coherent schedule. CSU and DVOA regularly have training camps, and the US team has intermittently been to Harriman. My proposal is to get a number of clubs - tentatively DVOA, HVO, EMPO, WCOC, CSU, and NEOC - to each take charge for organizing one training camp open to the public during the year. DVOA already has its Hickory Run camp. I envision primarily using three day weekends outside of the busiest A-meet calendar, with two or three exercises each day. I want to minimize the energy barrier for attendance and for organization - attendees can help with control pickup, all exercises can be advanced level, and hopefully basic housing can be arranged. It's still considerable work, so persuading the clubs to organize may be difficult. But even if there were only four weekend training camps presented as a series, it would be a big step in the right direction.
The morrow comes, and new challenges await.