Improved cycling and a good film

Categories: cycling, swansea

Tags: Cycling

Date: 10 May 2005 17:39:21

Yay! I have just made it (though I did nearly didn't make it in 1 piece due to stupid car drivers). I have just cycled home, up a big hill, and I am proud of my obvious improvement since September. I had much less stops than usual, I did not push at all, I was faster and used higher gears than I am accustomed to. After some consideration I have thought of several possible reasons for this:
1. Ideal weather conditions definitely contributed
2. Part of the way I was having a rant in my head, so was unaware of the muscular pain in my legs and just carried on cycling
3. A friend recently tried cycling in Swansea and expressed her admiration of my regular cycling, so I could have been feeling good, following her remarks
4. Or maybe I'm simply getting fitter
Its probably a bit of everything.

If you follow the link at the top, you will realise I find it easy to relate to that analogy, after struggling up the hill regularly for 9 months, I'm finally improving. I think you need to keep working at your relationship with God and faith in his work, in the same way. I will never be perfect at getting to the top of the hill, but if I keep trying then I will (hopefully) keep improving. Just as I will never have a perfect relationship with God, but I can keep working at it.

Continuing the film reviews, I watched The Day After Tomorrow last night. I thought it was brilliant. I respect the fact that the film does take the whole global warming issue to the extreme, but our global climate is getting worse, whether we admit it or not. I loved the similarity between the US vice president's attitudes, compared to Bush's. At the end the character had to acknowledge the scientists were right and he was wrong. Listening to politicians saying ‘I was wrong' is always worth listening to. As a film it had a good balance of drama, romance, comedy and ‘sitting on the edge of your seat' bits. My favourite part was when they had to burn the books in the library to keep warm, the librarians protests were funny ("they're books! You can't burn them!"). There was one man who insisted on keeping a copy of the bible, declaring that it should be preserved, even if everything else in the Western world was destroyed. I admire that religious stand: being prepared to die, if it means the bible can continue beyond the disaster.