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Monday, May 25, 2009
Break My Body

There are some great changes going on these days in the mind and body of one Jeffrey Beaumont. For a variety of reasons that I understand and some that I don't, I have been attempting to beat my body into some kind of submission over the past month. Right now I am pretty exhausted.

I think I have been feeling lately that many years of stagnance, physically and mentally, have made me feel increasingly weak and unprepared to handle the brutal world around me, and that my desire to get tougher, coupled with my general high-energy/low-need-for-rest attitude have set me on a crash course of some hyperathleticism.

Of course, I also have a tendency to overdo things, and that's probably where I'm at right now. At the moment, every part of my body is aching, from a somewhat punishing schedule of biking, basketball and rockclimbing. On Saturday I biked 50 miles; yesterday I played two full games of basketball; and today I'm going rockclimbing again. The biking I am able to do these days without experiencing much post-ride soreness; the other two activities, however, have been making me hilariously tender, and when coupled with the biking, I feel like I'm 70 years old as I walk around the office. And topping it all off, I will be adding yoga to the fold this Thursday, which I hope will reduce and not add to the aches and pains I'm feeling.

I think of a part of this hyperactivity is my growing restlessness with (at least a part of) the life I've been living, which has been increasingly great on many fronts, but increasingly tiresome on the work and routine front. I have mentioned this to nearly all of my friends recently but right now the thought of working in an office seems like one of the worst things I could imagine doing, and I am beginning to consider any and all escape route possibilities for non-office alternatives.

For the time being though, I still do work in an office, and so I am making due by pouring every ounce of my extra-work energy into whatever kind of mind and body activity I can come up with. After so many mental combustions over the years, perhaps I'm just trying to see if I'm capable of physically combusting. Either way, this stream of thought ends conclusively with "To Be Continued..."

Labels: basketball, BEAUMONT, biking, exercise, plans

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 5/25/2009 12:17:00 PM 0 comments

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