Cats and laziness have something in common. Perhaps they have more than one thing in common, but the particular thing I have in mind at the moment is they are both highly skilled at creeping.
Right away this morning following getting out of bed after sleeping in late, I changed into workout clothes and began a 250 Calorie session on the SkiErg
Each of you in the multitude of those who have been following this blog closely know that my recent usual SkiErg session is 200 Calories, not 250.
Enjoying a bit of a mental boost from doing an “extra” 50 Calories on the SkiErg today, I simultaneously thought of moving from SkiErg session done to starting a 10,000 meter rowing session and coffee. But not in that order. I wanted coffee more than I wanted to sit on the rowing machine for 10,000 meters.
Perhaps laziness had been stalking me, because almost immediately after the thoughts of rowing 10,000 meters and having coffee afterwards began doing a dance in my mind, there came the question of who was leading the dance. Rowing or coffee? Coffee or rowing?
Yelping with joy, laziness crept in to offer a solution to the non-problem. Its suggestion was that instead of rowing 10,000 meters today, I shorten the rowing session by whatever distance would be the equivalent of the extra 50 Calories that had been burned on the SkiErg! Brilliant! I thought it was my own idea and so I immediately calculated that if about 700 meters were subtracted from 10,000, the result would be enough for the two sessions to add up to yesterday’s total of 805 Calories on both machines.
I should have known better. The clue that I was being influenced by creeping laziness instead of my own rational thought was that when the 9,300 meter rowing session started, the thoughts also occurred that since it was a shorter distance than yesterday’s 10K, I could row at a slower pace.
The result was that I came up more than 30 Calories short of the goal of 805 Calories total. So I rowed another 700 meters, to bring the total calories up to yesterday’s. Yesterday’s, plus four more calories. And a lot more total time than yesterday’s 10K. Laziness snickered at its joke on me.
Moral of the story: the feline cat of laziness leads away from felicity of results.
Happy rowing to you!