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 “home invasion.” This time by carpenters, to repair the damage done by the roof workers. 🏠

Only two weeks before I’m fully 💉 vaccinated, though I expect a Pfizer “booster” later this year if new variants threaten a fourth pandemic wave occurring.

🏃 10 times 200 m, with 200 m recovery as intervals. Afterwards, I saw my ♡ drop to 45 bpm. Must be the anticipation of being 💉 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 🏃 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. Still—knock on wood—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 🏃 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. 🍀 it started to 🌧 after I was back 🏠

Reading the Command Line Interface Guidelines 👨‍💻

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 📊 if one isn’t sure if one is really tired or just playing tired out of laziness 🥱 I find it hard to sense the diff. 🏃

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 🏃 at easy pace.

Time for my weekly interval 🏃 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!)—Stephen Wolfram Writings Language both humans and computers can understand, as important as the introduction of Math symbols “+”, “-”, “=”, etc. centuries ago. 👨‍💻

Today’s 🏃 was relatively long, 15 km. As part of it, I did 9 times (900 m 🏃: 100 m🚶), which an average 🏃 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 🤔

It seems my cautious approach to 🏃 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 💉 has been brought forward by 6 weeks (because of new variants?), I’ll be able to run in a group sooner.

I suppose my cats keep me sane. They don’t take any human BS, and they reflect my behavior towards them back to me. If I’m nice and considerate, they are. If I neglect them, they start tearing down the furniture out of boredom. So I’m on my toes, trying to keep them happy. 🐱

I forgot to post about yesterday, when I 🏃 the full 15 km without walk breaks. This was a while ago. I even had one kilometer running 6:38 min/km, or 9 km/u, while still having an “easy pace” heart rate. On the photo is a deer, which you can barely see, but it was there.