Endurance

I went on a ride this evening. The temperature was good, and as I looked at the forecast I knew it was not going to be good again until Saturday. I didn't go on a ride or hike at all last week, so I'm not positive on the state of the trail when the warmer temps were here last week, but I think a lot of the snow melted, then with the snow that fell over the weekend it wasn't packed down enough, so it was pretty slippery. Took me a while, and I hiked for over half of it. I finally made it to the ruins though. 11.26 miles, 2 hours 13 minutes. There was one other biker on the trail, on a Fezzari/Ari ebike fat bike. I might want to upgrade to an ebike soon!

It was really pretty. There was blue sky, sunshine, and 37 degrees is a good winter biking temp, but... I didn't want to go. I wasn't feeling it. I was trying to force myself for about an hour, cause today was probably my only chance this week. But since I was lagging, I didn't start right away, and since I was hiking my bike for a good chunk of it, it took forever and thus I barely made it back before it was completely dark. Nicole called me right after I started, so that helped keep my mind off my lack of desire. I told her about a documentary we watched yesterday, "Endurance" by National Geographic (we watched it on Disney+). That story is CRAZY. It is insane... like I'm speechless at the thought of what those men endured for two years! For example, I'm all for cold showers, but HOW did they not all freeze to death!?!? WHAT did they EAT?? How did they cope with 4 MONTHS of the sun not rising?!?!? NONE of them died is insane. They must have been on death's door for a whole year. I told Nicole she had to watch it. Corey watched it last week and he brought it to our attention last week, and we watched a little bit here and there at scriptures last week, but we finished it yesterday. There are lessons there for all of us in all of our "hardships". I thought of them and told myself "I can endure a cold bike ride". It makes me wonder thought, is it possible for my small trials to refine me to the same level that they got to? I hope to be able to endure all things. I want to have a good attitude. The documentary did say that that was one of the rules for all the crew, to be optimistic. I asked Corey "What about being 'realistic'..." I wonder if being realistic considered pessimism? Cause, it seems to me, they really were in an impossible situation, it's just crazy. 

So go watch that. I already want to watch it again to get more stats, like I know it was 800 ocean miles from Elephant Island to South Georgia island, but I didn't catch how many days it took them to sail that (Shackleton and the 4 men that volunteered to go with him. That is a whole 'nother story in itself). After Corey watched it by himself, before he pointed all of us to it, he mentioned that he thought to himself: "I could probably endure a little more..." haha. Yeah, when we think of anything we are going through, compared to them?!?! We all definitely have it pretty easy. We're probably too comfortable, hence all the health problems that our society faces. That's another topic for another day. So I really enjoyed that. We also watched Ethan's original "House" video, the Covid episode, plus all the other episodes that he made last year. Natalie did Katharine's hair and make up ~

Cute little bug. Oh, in addition to my ride, I also went bouldering this morning. Did 30 climbs, (17 sends, 13 attempts). Today I got that stupid purple V1 on the west wall. It is a weird one and has been eluding me, so I'm glad I finally got it. So even though I already had my workout today by climbing, I knew I was in a funk, so I took a ride mostly for a mental reset, and to get out of the kitchen, cause I was turning to food for an escape from my mood. I'm glad I did. It did give me the reset I was hoping for and I feel a lot better in my head now. For FHE tonight, I had a stroke of genius and got ahead of the game and we did Valentines! I ran an errand to Costco for a few dinner things for our family party next Sunday, and bought some candy at Costco for valentines while I was there. K being cute at Costco ~

So we got that all taken care of! I'm glad that we were able to do it as an activity that we were going to need to do anyway. 

I'm glad I thought of it early and that we did it tonight instead of scrambling to do it Wednesday or Thursday night, yay.