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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Vacation Time

Finals are over and I now have a few weeks of well deserved free time to pursue some things besides those of teaching and evaluating my students. Probably the biggest thing on my agenda is to catch up on some of my reading. I have a huge backlog of books to look over covering everything from Tycho Brahe to small groups in the Emerging Church movement. I love having the diversity of reading as it keeps my mind going along several different tracks and allows me to continue to make lots of different connections.

Another big aspect of vaction time will be training. One of the things I love about my schedule for cycling is that I get lots of time to train right at a time when I need lots of time to train. Between the long, steady distance rides and the weight room time I can chew up abobut three hours a day right now. Having the free time to schedule that in is very nice. I feel like my body is making some pretty big strides right now, especially in terms of my strength training. I have up and down days on the bike but I guess that's to be expected. The important thing is not to push too hard and get myself in a fatigue situation.

The third thing is getting some rest. By the end of the semester I'm pretty behind on my sleep. This week I've been trying to get rid of the bags underneath my eyes with an extra nap each day along with a good night's sleep. Monday night my body mugged me and made me get even more than that but it was good. I'm guessing it was a case of biological give an inch, take a mile.

Anyways, I'll update more later on but as always,

Thanks for reading.

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