Years ago, 25+ years ago, in fact, back when I thought that cold weather meant riding a trainer indoors -- the pain of it finally made me go out and ride outdoors in all weather except freezing rain and snow -- I had a carefully crafted trainer routine involving 60 minutes of intervals in an apartment with windows wide open, heat turned off, 18" fan 2' in front of my face, towel on bar, and plastic mat underneath to catch the sweat. I, meanwhile in shorts and shoes and nought else.
This was a very rigorous interval workout, with heartrate chart on wall behind fan, and minimal recovery periods. The mag trainer had 10 settings, and the bike -- Miyata 410 or somesuch -- had 12 speeds. The regimen included multiple 10 minute intervals standing and cranking fast and hard in the 52 X 14 and #10 setting. So far, so good. The great problem was the ineffable boredom. "Ineffable" doesn't begin to describe the mental pain. Time would slow down to 1/16 of real speed. I tried watching reruns of Friends, but they were even slower under exercise than ordinarily. I listened to NPR news, and tried Cream ( *Crossroads*) and other heavy rock 'n' roll. One piece that did help assuage the pain -- again, I didn't mind the physical suffering; it was the mental suffering -- was Handel's *Dixit Dominus,* putting to music one of the more violet Psalms: "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand until I make of thine enemies thy footstool" (KJV, of course, accept no other) with music composed to match. Anyway, as usual today, after riding to and from liturgy, I came home to peruse the news (NYT Today's Paper), drink a drink or 2, and listen to music on YouTube. I favor Baroque. And I stumbled across this performance of Dixit Dominus, which I link to for your enjoyment. Use it for your own trainer or Peloton workouts at no charge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS65-ZvUSSM Patrick "will balance this with evening ragas for bedtime" Moore -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgv5EJ--q%2BHy0CwuZkH%3D03mc-8tm6afMp7PgySnJETCJeg%40mail.gmail.com.
