The Uk doesnt have the greatest weather and this Winter as been pretty demanding for someone that works outside. Ive learnt the hardway not to push workouts when your central nervous system is fryed from work stress. Thus a period of too much whiskey and not great eating and training not as frequent as would like. Time to get back in the game. Ive learned training everyother, 3 times a week or if my body needs rest every second day is best for me.

thanks greg............................this is a good forum and proud to be in it.i live one day at a time and pray everyday for it .

Greg, I've noticed what you commented on about the passage of time. Like you I thought it was eternal. Unending. Timeless. One of the epiphanies of life is that it isn't. I look around me now, at all the people who populated my life when I was young - aunts, uncles, etc., and especially my Dad's dad - the first man to drive a train from the east coast of Canada to its west coast. A wonderful guy, and I loved him deeply - little kid that I was he was my hero, and although he died when I was 10 for me he lives on. But he too is gone. My best friend when I was in college, a guy who like me loved pushing the iron died just a few weeks ago of leukemia. I stood by my Mom as she died at age 104. I'm not trying to be morbid. I am trying to pass on what an old guy like me, who was a hellraising idiot into his thirties has finally begun to understand. The importance of the wisdom of the ancients, the value of each of hour relationship to God - these are the timeless things that will escort us into eternity. Alone. Mortality isn't a group activity. And what you contribute to the world around you and to those who are in it is your footprint in time. I sure wish I could've figured at least some of this out when I was younger, but for a long time I thought I knew it all. A healthy dose of humility might of helped me. But - its always possible to learn, and its never to late to start.

Thank ya'll for the well wishes. And Stone Cold, my hat is off to you. You've been through some mess, but you're still plugging away. With me it is just a minor respiratory infection and exhaustion from overwork. I've got a few days off this week (kind of) to recover. You know it is a funny thing. When you are young, time seems to go on forever. Now, I look back and realize how precious time is and how much I wasted doing things that weren't productive. My philosophy now is that life is a daily adventure and you look for the opportunities to better yourself and help others whenever you can.

greg i hope you feel better

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans" John Lennon. Hang in there, full and speedy recovery. Thanks for taking the time to keep the site up and running. Be safe, stay fit for the life you live, and do good things.

GB

Sometimes our life push us to do some rest if we do not listen to our body and ignore vital external signals.

Greg, you're in good company as it happens to all of us. No doubt at all you'll flesh out your training soon - it in your DNA. You shouldn't stay away even if you wanted to, which you don't. All my best wishes to you and keep us posted.

haha i know how it is the last year and ahalf i have had shingles my mother died of cancer,and pulled a muscles in my left thigh,could not walk good for 6 weeks and two weeks ago got the noro virus.hahaha i got workout between those problems.life that way sometimes.i know i am blessed because i am a christian.life sometimes isn.t easy

Thanks Mike. You know how it goes. You rest long enough to feel better then it is back to the hamster wheel. The combination of short and restless sleep, too much caffeine, too much worry, too much strees, and too many deadlines has a debilitating effect on the body. You can do it for awhile, but you finally bottom out.

Hope You feel better Greg. You're right sometimes life gets in the way. Training for me is like a mental escape in these times. Well hope You get back to normality soon.