When I tell my 8 a.m. clients
that I cycled with my friends for one and a half hours starting
at 5:15 a.m., they think I am nuts. I tell them the people
that are nuts are those that are watching three hours of
T.V. every day. Nuts is drinking coffee everyday to stay
awake. Nuts is having a belly so big you can’t even
see your feet. Nuts is going to a job everyday that you hate.
Nuts is being so comfortable in your life you don’t
try anything new. Nuts is spending more time on the couch
then on your bicycle. Nut is not meeting some of the most
wonderful people you have ever met in your life, in your
basement at 5:15 a.m.
We call the Hauser basement “The
Gauntlet”.
Our basement was like a lot of basements. It has ceilings
about 6 feet 10 inches high. The basement was dusty and dreary.
It smelled like mold. This was about four years.
When Marion kicked me and Luis out of the rest of the house for making
so much noise while cycling on our trainers, the only place
left was the dreary, musty basement, thus the name ‘Gauntlet’ was
born. We started calling it the Gauntlet. Marion and I put
three Austin Air purifiers down there and the musty smell
left. We then put a bathroom. We then put a storage room
for all the ‘junk’.
We then put a professional/commercial rubber floor on the
rest of it and thus the Gauntlet gym was born. We have been
cycling in our basement with our friends for three years
now. We do this only in the winter months. Basically from
the end of the November until early March. Then we go outside
and cycle.
We call the people in our training group Team
Gauntlet. We let them know when the Gauntlet workouts in
The Gauntlet will occur. We generally do a cycle on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. At these are Marion, myself, and generally
one or two other friends. We have had up to six people in
our basement at 5:15 a.m. The workouts are generally 5:15
to 6:45 a.m. The athletes then shower (some at our home and
some at their own homes) and are to work by 8 a.m. Is this
nuts? I don’t think so.
When I see my first client,
I have already had a lot of great times in the day and it
is only 8 a.m.? I have worked out with my wife and friends.
I see them huffing and puffing and it gets me to go harder.
Generally we talk about stuff that is going on in our lives,
so it a counseling session also. Meeting our friends and
working out is cathartic for us. We need it. It helps us
feel good. I believe it is also helping us stay healthy.
It gives us energy. It strengthens our marriage. It strengthens
our friendships. Isn’t
all this, what life is about. This is why I often say that
everyone needs a gauntlet!
RH
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