Altitude and Encounters at the End of the World

They always say that training at altitude gives you all these cardio benefits. The flip side, I have found out, is that a good night's sleep near sea level after a big ride leaves you a lot less sore in the morning...



Last night La Lissa and I saw this movie about Antarctica Encounters at the End of the World. Its a Werner Herzog film, the guy who did the "Grizzly Man" movie that I never saw but heard a lot about. The film was really great for a variety of reasons. The film profiled scientists as the McMurdo research station, a 5,000-person NSF station which studies everything from molecular biology of seal milk, underwater ice creatures, volcanos, to high-energy particle physics. But far from being a feature-length version of a NOVA episode, the film avoided the clichés of nature documentaries, and was more like a meditation on the universe while driving 80 Km/hr on a snowmobile over an ice sea on some mild hallucinogenic. Whatever it was, it was really good, and I recommend all rockwallers go see it.