Into the Wild Review

This is a movie I saw before we got Black Swan. I don't know why but I love movies that have some kind of underlying social message, Blood Diamond, Inception, I can't seem to remember any now. I also tend to love an Indie film or a foreign film, Amores Perros is one of my favs. (my husband HATES this about me). One time, he and I watched Hotel Rwanda and got into a major argument just because we differ in opinions on foreign aid.

 Anyways, I don't know how I got off on that tangent, but back to the point of this post which is the movie Into the Wild

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The movie is based on the story of a young guy who graduated from Emory University and didn't know what to do with his life. He decided to live as a gypsy (that's the only word I can think of to describe it, maybe nomad would be better). He donates all of his money, around 25k, to a charity and begins to travel, by foot. His goal and last mahor venture was to travel to Alaska and live in the wilderness.

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This is a pic of the actual guy

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This is from the movie

When we first started the movie, I was a little worried that he was going to be alone because I was thinking, how boring is this movie going to be if it's just us watching him hike through the wilderness. But, I was wrong. He does interact with people and there are some very interesting, very touching personal relationships along the way. His perspective on the world is different but he is intelligent and has some insight that I related to. As I've discussed before, I have been thinking about relationships and how to be my true self in those relationships. Maybe since that is what I'm going through right now, that's what I picked up from this movie, but I felt like this was his journey through that as well. He had been hurt by so many before that he was ready to abandon them all for a lone life in the wilderness. It's interesting his perspective and how it changed towards the end.

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The movie was directed by Sean Penn and while there were some parts that I thought were just cinema trying to be indie cinema, overall, the movie was well made. The actors did a great job, especially the main character, Emile Hirsch, who played Alex McCandless.

 

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I can't really say more without giving away things in the movie but if you haven't seen it, I highly highly recommend it. The next step will be me reading the book, so as soon as I do that, I will write that review as well!

What are you favorite kinds of movies?

Have you seen Into the Wild? What did you think?

Should I read the book?

RnR Training Week 5

Training for the week:

Monday:
10 x 30 seconds with 1 minute recovery
4 x 60 seconds with 2 minute recovery
175 abs for the fitabs challenge

Tuesday:
45 cross training - i'm choosing swimming - my learn to swim plan says
150 m warm up swim with 60 seconds rest
4 x 50 swim with 30 second rest between each 50
8 x 25 m with 30 second rest between each 25 m - count the # of strokes in lap 1 and try to take them down by 1 each lap (1-4, then repeat)
150 cool down swim
175 abs for fitabs challenge

Wednesday
1-2 minute hill repeats 4-6 times
175 abs for fitabs challenge

Thursday:
5:45 am spin class
1 mile run (to get used to brick)
175 abs for fitabs challenge

Friday: rest which may include yoga

Saturday: run 90-110 minutes

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This morning, I did the monday workout with my Go Run group. We somehow got a week off, but they adjusted so we could be together. I'm such a freak show when it comes to a training plan but I will follow it religiously. I feel like, if someone who is highly qualifed in programming made a plan specifically for my level, I'm going to follow it without adjustments simply because what I know about running is about 1/100 of what the training plan knows. My hope one day is that I'll get certified to train and then, maybe I'll feel a little more confident.

The run went well minus the tired feeling towards the end. The warm up mile felt great and I wanted to run way faster than I needed to. The 30 second sprints felt great but the last one, I pooped out. Then the last 4 were a struggle. I normally don't feel like this but I'm guessing that it's probably a result of doing the triathlon yesterday.

What's amazing about that race was that when I was done, I was completely worn out. I went home and slept for a while. When I woke up, I laid on the couch some more until I finally had to go to the grocery store at 4 pm. I mean... no foot race has EVER put me down for the count like this did. I was completely EXHAUSTED. I'm guessing it was the swimming? I have no idea.

FITABS Challenge:

so just to keep you up to date... I was bad last week. I did 500 instead of 600 so I was already down 100 and then I missed friday, saturday and sunday. Whoops... so I divided 700 by 4 and came up with 175 per day. That's what I have to do. I'm going to die... not really... but it's not going to be fun

How do you feel about altering training plans?

Have you ever worked with someone directly and altered their plan?

Has a race ever put you out for the rest of the day?