About a week ago I was riding my bike on an average length ride. The difference thought his time was that I experienced an intense series of moments, which I am now referring to as the “Kill Zone”.
I am sure most of you are aware of a state of being called “flow”. When what ever we happen to be doing at that moment, is almost effortless, we are in the zone so to speak, and it is almost a feeling of we could continue forever, we are smooth, assured in our actions, and it as if we are expending very little energy to achieve a maximum output.
Well the Kill Zone, is a little different. It was almost as if it was a “hyper” flow state. It felt like a moving beyond the flow state, where the pain was observable in this peaked mental and physical state, while at the same time there was an intense focus and drive to “kill” the activity at any cost.
It reminded me of the “berserker” state of the Vikings, as they went into battle, where there was an intense clarity, while at the same time there is a relentless drive to push yourself to your utmost capacity, to exceed your ultimate best at that moment in time, and to be aggressively driven towards your objective - faster, more focused, and to push almost beyond your physical capacity into a new zone of peak performance. The pain was evident and real, though almost an aside at that moment, the price that was willingly accepted for this ultimate “kill state” of mind.
The experience lasted for about twenty minutes and than gradually subsided to a flow state of being, that continued until the culmination of the activity.
More to come…