Mining Courage
Week 6. They say that Fear arises from uncertainty. From the Unknown growing dark in your mind. Akin to inexperience: undergoing a new adventure without preparation, doubt breathing heavily down your neck. Courage, on the other hand, would then be risk-taking? Nay. Courage is action in spite of Fear. And Courage can be mined if your shovel can take the beating. He meant Courage, and he was wrong about Fear. Read On. As for Fear, though, I do have my objections. It was back in July, before starting the structured Sufferfest training plan, that I rode The Shovel. It was the first Sufferfest video I played in several years, back since when the SUF videos were in Strava (only 90's kids will remember). Now before diving into the gory details, let's just say that The Shovel is simply two sets of 23 intervals (5sec to 1min) with inverse ratios. In other words, the harder the interval, the longer the rest and vice-versa, taking a minute in total. For example, 10...