I have the ultimate luxury of working in the Heart Function Exercise Laboratory at Toronto General Hospital. This allows me the unique opportunity to test my maximum oxygen uptake on a regular basis; the primary reason to insure calibration of the equipment and accurate measurements when testing our patients. Thanks to our generous donors, we have the most up-to-date equipment, software, and the ability to conduct valuable research. This testing also gives me a gauge regarding my own training; therefore, applying some “method to the madness.” That madness includes waking up at 3:00 am to complete bike rides on my indoor trainer in the “pain cave.”