Lately, I translated an article on the optimal moments of the day to go skating, according to your body rhythms.
Obviously, it works for skating as well as for any physical activity: the article breaks down the different times of your body's circadian cycles (internal clock) as well as its chemical reactions to those different phases... and concludes with the best time slots to be active according to your body's awakeness.
The specific vocabulary is obviously explained with everyday words, and the article highlights the main ideas of the concept.
I am not writing a post to advertize for it, though:
As soon as the first lines, it re-activated forgotten memories carefully filed in a corner of my brain.
-- FLASHBACK
You are just out of bed on a cold winter morning and you jump into your skates for your usual appartment-university commutation with your brain at idling speed, sticky eyes and a runny nose, when you plunge your frozen fingers into your pocket to pull out a tissue. Fate has it that the tissue reaches your nose while your skates move onto the downhill part of a Parisian boulevard and bump into a cut stripe of asphalt. Worst timing ever.
Your eyebrow kisses the cycle lane. The pain is instantly annihilated both by the cold and by the shame and anger you are experiencing. You rebuff the passers-by who enquire about the shock, check out that you are not bleeding in the reflection of the nearest car window, and quickly leave the crime scene.
You stop by a drugstore to ask for ice. They say you should see a doctor. You arrive at your linguistics class. Your desk mate says you should see a doctor. With the change of temperature, the eye has tripled in size. You write down the number of the desk mate's doctor, call him and get an emergency appointment. You wait for it in a bar nearby and get stared at by a good dozen of clients, probably thinking that you are a battered woman.
No after-effects except for a three-week black eye and, since then and for five years now, a pathological care when folding a tissue!
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| Black eye. Called it the "rainbow" eye. Fall 2007. |
To conclude with... Am totally agreeing with the article's opening lines.
"Who never felt that they were not quite awake when they go skating
early in the morning, or that they were dozy after lunch? Your body is
governed by specific rhythms that you should know how to listen before
going skating…" MORE
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