That's my word of the day. I was pretty sure I knew what it meant when it came to mind this morning, but of course I had to look it up to confirm. I just about had it right, thinking it was a word indicating an apparent contradiction. What the experts say is
1) out of keeping or place
2) not harmonious in character
3) inconsistent
I feel a little incongruent. I am so grateful for the way things played out from a timing perspective related to my training and my firing, but I also think that it is the reason I feel a little out of place right now. I am also sure that it will all work itself out once this Ironman is over and I can move on to the next chapter of my life, whatever that may be. As fulfilling as the training and racing is I know that I need more purpose in my life as well. Right or wrong, working for a living fulfilled that internal need, and I look forward to whatever it may look like in the future.
Menwhile I still intend on giving this thing all I got for the next 2 months (a little less actually) and being able to say I gave it my best shot. I am also very committed to talking Roo into doing one, and I can just imagine how much fun it would be to coach someone else through the process.
And perhaps you were wondering what may have brought the post title to mind in the first place. See if this seems to fit the definition, as I tell you that witnessing this was the exact trigger that popped the word into my brain.
I was in the waiting room at the doctors office looking out the 3rd floor window. There was a middle aged mennonite lady standing beside her van. She was in full costume including the compulsory black head scarf, and dark patterned dress to below her knees. She was sipping her Tim Hortons coffee which in itself I found a bit inconsistnent, but then I almost fell through the window when she raised her other arm to her mouth and took a long, deep, drag on her cigarette!! She even held it between thumb and firefinger like a joint, and used one of her other fingers to flick the ashes. Incongruous!!
Still a bit sluggish with training today but I continue to climb back up. Tomorrow is long swim day and I will return to the conservation area to swim outside. And of course the most important workout is long ride saturday. From here on in they are more important than anything else
(run intervals 5 X 600, upper body weights)
....and todays quote has absolutely no relevance to the blog other than the fact that it includes the word incongruous, but I found it an amazing collection of words. I wish I could write like this. Unless your name is Cory you may have to read it a few times. I know I did.
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement,
That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines,
Linking each flat, but to each indifferent,
Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."---Claude McKay
Love
Peter
1) out of keeping or place
2) not harmonious in character
3) inconsistent
I feel a little incongruent. I am so grateful for the way things played out from a timing perspective related to my training and my firing, but I also think that it is the reason I feel a little out of place right now. I am also sure that it will all work itself out once this Ironman is over and I can move on to the next chapter of my life, whatever that may be. As fulfilling as the training and racing is I know that I need more purpose in my life as well. Right or wrong, working for a living fulfilled that internal need, and I look forward to whatever it may look like in the future.
Menwhile I still intend on giving this thing all I got for the next 2 months (a little less actually) and being able to say I gave it my best shot. I am also very committed to talking Roo into doing one, and I can just imagine how much fun it would be to coach someone else through the process.
And perhaps you were wondering what may have brought the post title to mind in the first place. See if this seems to fit the definition, as I tell you that witnessing this was the exact trigger that popped the word into my brain.
I was in the waiting room at the doctors office looking out the 3rd floor window. There was a middle aged mennonite lady standing beside her van. She was in full costume including the compulsory black head scarf, and dark patterned dress to below her knees. She was sipping her Tim Hortons coffee which in itself I found a bit inconsistnent, but then I almost fell through the window when she raised her other arm to her mouth and took a long, deep, drag on her cigarette!! She even held it between thumb and firefinger like a joint, and used one of her other fingers to flick the ashes. Incongruous!!
Still a bit sluggish with training today but I continue to climb back up. Tomorrow is long swim day and I will return to the conservation area to swim outside. And of course the most important workout is long ride saturday. From here on in they are more important than anything else
(run intervals 5 X 600, upper body weights)
....and todays quote has absolutely no relevance to the blog other than the fact that it includes the word incongruous, but I found it an amazing collection of words. I wish I could write like this. Unless your name is Cory you may have to read it a few times. I know I did.
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement,
That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines,
Linking each flat, but to each indifferent,
Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."---Claude McKay
Love
Peter
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