Back with a Vengeance.
I am starting up my old blog again. More than anything, this is just to keep myself in line with some of the small changes I want to make with my life. Namely, I want to start learning again. I feel like I have sort of stagnated over the past few months with learning new things and I want to fix that. Also, I have started swimming again. I figure, I might as well have somewhere that I can post my swim sets so I can look back over what I have done.
The first item of business is learning. I read a blog post recently Your high IQ will kill your startup. This got me thinking. While I don’t agree completely with the author, namely because a person with a high IQ has a tool and if they DO train to use it, they will be much more of a force than someone who just trains with their hands. Think of it as engines. A person with a four cylinder under the hood is disadvantaged to someone with a V12 purring away. Now, the four banger can be tuned and built up and turbo’d and all sorts of stuff and could probably keep up with the V12 monster if it were stock. Well, what happens when the owner of the V12 does all the same prep work to their engine?
Exactly.
So anyhow, that got me to thinking and so I want to start with a few things. Number one: I am going to start trying this new site called 750 Words. It is pretty much a way to jump start the creative juices everyday by just writing 750 words, or three pages. I have heard good things about it and it is pretty cool for anyone that is looking to generate some free flowing thoughts each day. I am also starting to really learn HTML and CSS. While I could depend on a program to generate websites for me, I thought it would be fun to learn it myself. It has been a fun adventure already, I won’t lie.
That is about it for now. Oh, my swim set this morning:
200 Warmup
25×4 sprint, 5 breaths between
25×2 skulling
25×2 sprint, 5 breaths between
25×2 egg beater only
200 Cooldown
All in all, not a bad set for having not swam in about, oh, a million years.