I streamlined my followers list on Strava, by removing the athletes who didn’t have any running activities in the past 4 weeks, and whoever did activities (in a way) I’m not interested in. No use to follow inactive accounts, nor any fun to follow activities that only annoy or bore me.

I get why email newsletters are so popular. Most don’t understand RSS/newsreaders, while email is much easier. And if newsreaders are not allowed on the company computer, email always is. But why would anyone publish newsletters, besides promotion and “marketing” (actually, creeping on strangers)?

There’s this separate bike path in town where on one side (where’s a ditch) it’s full of butterbur, like weeds. After summer they’re always cut back to the ground, yet they keep coming back early summer.

Sun worshipers 🐱☀️

I know a physiotherapist who refuses to treat runners, because those are the worst patients. In those runners' minds, running is all about getting fit, so how can that make you sick? There’s no patience and a reluctance to see an injury as a serieus affliction that needs careful treatment. 🏃‍♂️

In just 12 days Runalyze dropped my estimated time in the marathon race by 4 minutes, while my marathon shape has reached 99%. By losing some of my excess weight slowly over the next 5 months, I might be able to lose a proportional amount of 15 minutes, provided I slowly speed up my training. 🏃‍♂️

Why you shouldn’t make fun about people’s names: a name is just some noise other people make when they’re around you; it isn’t you, nor what you’re all about, even if it’s Flapberry Fudgewhistle.

I wanted to go shopping, but, apparently, I am not 🐱😻

ATM entering photography as a hobby is ludicrously expensive (say thousands of Euros). I pay €1000 for a top-of-the-line smartphone, so a “budget” camera that lacks versatility and user-friendliness, should cost a fraction of that. I suppose economies of scale has never touched the camera market 😕

6 years and counting 😺🥳

I decided to do my 15 km run inside the municipality of where I live, and run between two of the three historical windmills. Well, the third is a tidal mill, though no longer operational, if I read correctly. With every flood there was lots of damage. With the Delta Works, no more floods, nor tides.

If I were as eager into doing my garden as my cat is into eating, my garden would’ve been done already. Ah well, lazybones is making some progress now, at the start of meteorological summer. (Sry 4 🙈 🎞️🛍️ job… LZ.) 😂

I’m told by freelancers, being a freelancer doesn’t mean you’re your own boss, but rather that you get to pick your “boss”, IOW, your client. The client still gets more value out of you than your product is worth. This is what capitalism is, extracting value out of a workforce.

The graph shows what I could expect as a reasonable time on the marathon, based on training data. Two years ago, I could expect 5u30', a year ago 5u15', and now 4u15'. In all cases I was/am preparing for a marathon in October/November. Notice the serious detraining after the 2021 marathon 🏃‍♂️

I tried to add some of my Garmin Connect activities to my Dutch running blog, using iFrame snippets with code running on Garmin Connect. My blog slowed down to less than a crawl. Aside from security risks, using iFrame code seems a bad idea.

One of the advantages of having a blog… I wondered why a year ago I had such poor training regime for running. Then I read: overtrained in January (with complete bed rest for a week), followed by a slew of injuries after I picked up my training far too quickly. I was out of shape, quite a bit 🏃

I think long distance running, certainly above a certain age (read: amount of self-knowledge), is about conquering fear in advance. I’m about to run 26 km, and made it twice 13 km (i.e., back and forth), to make it less impressive. Still, I’m apprehensive 😬 What am I doing this for, again? 🏃‍♂️

(Almost) daily weight training is having an effect. This morning I was able to haul a bag of kitty litter up a flight of stairs, 20 kgs or so, one-handed. I haven’t done that in many, many years (like 25 years). Next challenge, hold a ball in two hands, lay down, and stand up, ball in the air.🏋️‍♂️

I’ve edited 12 posts from 2016 in a blog I transferred from WP to micro∙blog, which took me 3½ hours. It’s mostly relinking to articles inside the blog from the old url to the new url. Since micro∙blog clearly has another naming scheme than WP, I have to do it manually, painstakingly, link-by-link 😞

TIL. Apparently, the triple negate (!!!) I saw in front of a reminder in the Apple Reminders app means “high priority.”