Sleeping while chewing gum - what are the implications? Random thought that became quite apparent to me last night. I ended up swallowing the chewing gum in the end because I was too lazy to go throw it away in the bin. Anyway.
So the running is paying off now and I'm starting to feel positive gains and losses with the added benefit of doing my 2K run into gym without hesitation with my last 9k run feeling the most comfortable since I began. Will continue to eat as best as I can and maintain a healthy, balanced work/play relationship which at the moment is sorely leaning to the play side of things. That said, I'm taking a much better approach to resting than ever before and that I feel is helping a great deal with realising the results after each run, gym session etc...
I watched an interesting documentary about the causes and effects of sleep on the body which reinforced my existing knowledge that sleep was that beneficial to aiding exercise but just as important was the effects on neural activity such as learning and reinforcement.
Well, having all that on my mind this weekend I went out and grabbed myself a new XBox game called DarkSector which nicely filled in the gap between everything.
Another interesting and yet totally random thing was me learning why a star collapses on itself when it dies: usually as a star lives it turns it's matter into different elements which gives of energy and pushes outwards while the star's gravity tries to pull it in towards it's centre. This battle rages on as elements change until the element that is created is iron, which unlike other elements absorbs energy as part of it's transformation - aiding gravity's battle to pull inwards not outwards as would happen if the conversion to iron was exothermic(energy is released). Seeing that it isn't, when I star starts creating iron, it starts to die as gravity starts pulling everything onto itself until it imploded (not enough outward energy to counteract gravity). Essentially gravity wins the battle.
Also, quite randomly I discovered how Entropy works but thats not as cool(was stars dyin cool? Probably not :-) anyway. Let's see what we can do with this work week!
So the running is paying off now and I'm starting to feel positive gains and losses with the added benefit of doing my 2K run into gym without hesitation with my last 9k run feeling the most comfortable since I began. Will continue to eat as best as I can and maintain a healthy, balanced work/play relationship which at the moment is sorely leaning to the play side of things. That said, I'm taking a much better approach to resting than ever before and that I feel is helping a great deal with realising the results after each run, gym session etc...
I watched an interesting documentary about the causes and effects of sleep on the body which reinforced my existing knowledge that sleep was that beneficial to aiding exercise but just as important was the effects on neural activity such as learning and reinforcement.
Well, having all that on my mind this weekend I went out and grabbed myself a new XBox game called DarkSector which nicely filled in the gap between everything.
Another interesting and yet totally random thing was me learning why a star collapses on itself when it dies: usually as a star lives it turns it's matter into different elements which gives of energy and pushes outwards while the star's gravity tries to pull it in towards it's centre. This battle rages on as elements change until the element that is created is iron, which unlike other elements absorbs energy as part of it's transformation - aiding gravity's battle to pull inwards not outwards as would happen if the conversion to iron was exothermic(energy is released). Seeing that it isn't, when I star starts creating iron, it starts to die as gravity starts pulling everything onto itself until it imploded (not enough outward energy to counteract gravity). Essentially gravity wins the battle.
Also, quite randomly I discovered how Entropy works but thats not as cool(was stars dyin cool? Probably not :-) anyway. Let's see what we can do with this work week!