HIM week, attempt 3

Thus far, I've achieved a HIM week twice, and been foiled twice. This week is going strong so far. I woke up at 9 PM on Sunday and couldn't get back to sleep. By 4 AM on Monday, I had finished my stretches and strength training for the day, so I took a very roundabout bike ride to work, covering a bit over 40 kilometers. Today, after work, I ran a 10K. So I'm on track to hit one major workout per weekday, even though this is a normal(ish) work week.

I've discovered some problems with my range. I shouldn't be surprised; it's original to my home. I've ordered replacement parts, but they are going to take about a week to arrive. Until then, the only cooking I'll be doing is either in my rice cooker at work or in my electric kettle at home. I'm not particularly bothered by it, but it does rather put a damper on how I've approached my mornings for the last couple months. Usually, I make coffee and fry 4 eggs while I'm doing my strength training, and eat right afterwards. Well, you can't really fry eggs in an electric kettle. So, instead, I had hardboiled eggs yesterday, and today just ate a cold can of beans with sriracha in it. There was a time I honestly would have struggled to even eat cold beans from a can. I didn't mind at all; I was pleased to have thought to add sriracha. Some may think of this as having fallen. I regard it as having risen. If only I could totally remove myself from the idea of food as anything but simple nourishment, at least in the context of a solitary exercise.

I need to get to work on making my beaten-up raleigh twenty into a capable triathlon machine. I should go all our on it; strip it totally apart, sandblast or strip it, rustproof the inside of the frame, repaint it, consider replacing the front fork to accept disc brakes, find an XRF-8 hub for the rear, get wheel built, the works. Really, my goal should be to get down to the two folding twenty bikes and no others; use the nicer green one as my daily rider with fenders and a trailer hitch, and use the other as a tri bike and a backup for when the daily rider breaks down.

I want to experiment with going back to sleeping on the floor. Imagine a world where I could more or less leave creature comforts behind; sleep on the floor, drink only water, eat only whatever is cheapest and nutritionally complete while being ethical, heat and cool my home only insofar as actually necessary, wear only what is necessary because of weather or other meaningful circumstances, not what people want to see.