XPost: misc.fitness.aerobic, soc.senior.health+fitness

Mar 29, 2022

After stopping daily walks for 25 days and getting all I could from
exercising at home I thought I'd try walking again today to see how my cardiovascular system is doing.

I didn't get to panting like last time, yet I didn't feel fit like I was
in walking days either. So even though I have improved upon type of
exercise I get at home (a new much more comprehensive and scientific
exercise book), something is still missing.

There's something about walking a few hours in good air outside that I
haven't been able to clone at home. It is not the oxygen, I'm very
particular about air quality inside home. If anything, I think air
quality in my home is better than outside.

This is what I'm talking about! There's something about walking for
human that goes beyond the sum of its parts. I think the translation of
that Persian word is "synergy." Walking is a synergy. Not that easy to
clone it at home or even at work by just bringing the parts of it together.

When I was working a physically (and occasionally mentally) demanding
job, I'd come home from it wanting only to rest and eat and see a movie
or something before hitting the sack. But from a long walk, I come home
and my mind is ready to create along just about any of the projects I've
made available for myself.

It might be as simple as constantly being in a different place. The
visual input of finding yourself at different places. Or moving _away_
or _towards_. I still don't know what it is that makes the actual
difference.

It was cloudy and cooler today. Trees have germinated and some are
flowering white and pink. Immediately upon starting the walk I noticed
several large Black Swallowtail butterflies. They are almost all black
except for the elongated tail region which has a shiny different color
to it.

I don't remember seeing them last year, so these might be species with
life cycles of more than one year in length. Amazing life forms! They
can be an egg, a caterpillar, a pupa comfortably waiting inside a
beautiful cocoon, and then of course coming out as butterflies again
flying into air :-) Human life is shit compared to theirs. They buy or
sell "gas" to nobody. They pay or receive taxes from nobody. They don't
pay or receive rent. How fucked up and stupid human is compared to these butterflies.

It was a windy day but these butterflies were strong and fast.

Saw the Chink and the Beaner, again wearing same shoes, walking in the
same funny manners. The Beaner gives me a thumb up when passing.

There were large gun-like sounds but it was no shooting range. Lot's of fracking has begun not that far from the track. Gas and oil companies
are having a ball.


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