• Two months ago I needed two full days to recover from my πŸ’‰ Now barely a full day, though I felt more tired after my πŸƒ than I usually do.

  • I’ve started using Day One (Classic) again to get myself to meet my personal goals. I can have three goals (priorities) at most; more is mere fantasy, not something that’s feasible in most people’s lives, including mine.

  • I had no idea there’s such a thing as creative non-fiction, IOW, fact-based storytelling with a more personal narrative. Examples are memoirs, personal essays, biographies, literary criticism, literary journalism. Personal essays are to memoirs what short stories are to novels.

  • Another β€œhome invasion.” This time by carpenters, to repair the damage done by the roof workers. 🏠

  • Only two weeks before I’m fully πŸ’‰ vaccinated, though I expect a Pfizer β€œbooster” later this year if new variants threaten a fourth pandemic wave occurring.

  • πŸƒ 10 times 200 m, with 200 m recovery as intervals. Afterwards, I saw my β™‘ drop to 45 bpm. Must be the anticipation of being πŸ’‰ later in the day. It also used to happen on days I ran an important race: less appetite, lower heart rate, and a deep calm.

  • I’ve run over a year with my current πŸƒ shoes, obliterating the 1000 km limit I set for it, based on previous experiences. The support is completely wrecked, and I could as well run barefoot. Stillβ€”knock on woodβ€”I haven’t been injured in all that time, which is astonishing.

  • If I understood correctly, we can expect booster vaccines for the last quarter of 2021 to update our immune system to the plethora of new COVID-19 variants popping up all over the world. As I expected, this thing will drag out over a decade rather than be restricted to 2020 only.

  • If love for something turns into disgust or hatred, isn’t that a clear sign you haven’t truly separated from the thing? Both are strong types of emotions, or, bonding. Letting it go is also letting it be.

  • I did my longest RWR πŸƒ since a long time, and part of it on new (to me) terrain. Of course, I got lost, a bit, so the expected 16 km became 17 km, and I’m dealing with itches from brambles and nettles I encountered on a rarely used path. πŸ€ it started to 🌧 after I was back 🏠

  • Reading the Command Line Interface Guidelines πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

    Yet with its creaky, decades-old constraints and inexplicable quirks, the command line is still the most versatile corner of the computer.

  • It’s probably smart to check with superior πŸ“Š if one isn’t sure if one is really tired or just playing tired out of laziness πŸ₯± I find it hard to sense the diff. πŸƒ

  • My house has been invaded by two groups of workers at the same time. 🏠

  • If I exclude walk breaks, I ran on average 6:24 min/km. 10 kph now seems almost doable for a 15 km πŸƒ at easy pace.

  • Time for my weekly interval πŸƒ training. This time 10 times 200 m (200 m recovery), at an average pace of 5:06 min/km. I felt I could’ve done 5 more, easily. Baby steps, though. Who knows, perhaps in August?

  • This time next week I will receive my second vaccine injection against SARS-CoV-2, supposedly protecting me against the Delta variant as well. It was originally scheduled for late August. It isn’t a perfect protection, so social distancing and hygiene rules will remain the same.

  • Cities Are Not Loud: Cars Are Loud, and Places Without Cars Are Quiet - YouTube I need to visit Delft to experience this silence.

  • What We’ve Built Is a Computational Language (and That’s Very Important!)β€”Stephen Wolfram Writings Language both humans and computers can understand, as important as the introduction of Math symbols “+”, “-”, “=”, etc. centuries ago. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • Today’s πŸƒ was relatively long, 15 km. As part of it, I did 9 times (900 m πŸƒ: 100 m🚢), which an average πŸƒ pace of 6:36 min/km. Because of my orange t-shirt, someone felt the need to say the Dutch are out of the running, so wearing orange is no longer necessary πŸ€”

  • It seems my cautious approach to πŸƒ is starting to 🐻 🍎 Not only could I run 9 km in 62 minutes, I also ran 1 km in 5:35 min, in an attempt to train my lactate threshold. Now my πŸ’‰ has been brought forward by 6 weeks (because of new variants?), I’ll be able to run in a group sooner.