🏃♂️ Hill repeats at a steady, moderate pace for today’s run. I tried to focus on my downhill form: staying loose and keeping ground contact time short
Microposts
🎵 Find A Way Home by MxPx is a fun punk rock album
Finished reading: American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley. I’ve read several books about the Apollo missions, all of them focused on the science and engineering. This book is a fascinating look at the politics and JFK’s indispensable leadership. 🚀📚
📺 The Night Manager (2016) - ★★★☆☆
A good show. I binge-watched it over the weekend while recovering from a nasty cold. Hiddleston and Laurie are both great
Finished reading: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson is fun. A nice break from the epic storytelling of the previous series. The Sherlock Holmes meets Western lawman vibe fits in well with the allomancy 📚
Finished reading: Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky continues a great series. Interesting and diverse aliens, cosmic scale mysteries, and against all odds, plucky humans 📚
New running shoe day! After 1,109 kms, I’m replacing the orange ones with another pair of Saucony Kinvara. I definitely don’t recommend waiting so long, just got distracted 🏃♂️
Finished reading: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson is pretty good. Nowhere near as visionary as Anathem or Seveneves, though tighter than Fall; or Dodge in Hell📚
🍿 I enjoyed Fathom (2021), a documentary about attempts to communicate with whales. Pairs well with Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs
Day 30: Treasure
Day 29: Contrast
Day 28: Workout
In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt is delightful
Yet the more precisely time is measured, the less it starts to feel like time at all.
This didn’t last long. When using Apple Podcasts to listen to Apple Music radio, you don’t see album art and can’t easily add music to your library. Discovery is my main use case. So, though I like the idea of this integration, in practice it doesn’t suit my needs 🎵
Day 27: Embrace
Day 26: Beverage
Day 25: Flare
Day 24: Belt
Finished reading: The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Tom Chivers is an entertaining and interesting book about AI risks and the Rationalists that worry about them 📚
🏃♂️ Starting to see the Fall colour changes on today’s run. Powered by PUP and Rage Against the Machine
Starting Fall with a pumpkin ale from Lake of Bays brewery
Day 23: A day in the life. Enjoying the nice Fall weather outside with a good book
Day 22: Road
🚴♂️ Likely the last ride of the season with this crew. Getting too dark! Unfortunately we had to end early, thanks to a flat tire.
Sunrises are a nice benefit of getting up early
Day 21: Fall
Day 20: Disruption
Day 19: Edge
GPS Watch? No Thanks. Top Runners Are Ditching the Data.
For many, GPS watches are a remarkably useful training tool. But there are other runners, including world-class runners like Jacobs, who have a hard time understanding the fuss. To them, a smorgasbord of data is more hindrance than help. And get this: Some runners don’t wear watches at all.
I’m sympathetic to this idea. In general, I’m trying to stop obsessing over my health and fitness data (tough for this data analyst to do). That said, I’m far from an elite runner. So, I don’t have enough body awareness to intuitively know my pace zones and find realtime data on my performance helpful for making sure my runs are effective.
Perhaps more importantly, my watch is also my source of music and a way to keep my family updated when I’m out on a long run.
I don’t expect to be running out the door without my watch anytime soon.
Day 18: Fabric
