🏃♂️ Nice break after several days of rain for today’s long run
Microposts
🎵 Who Will Look After The Dogs? by PUP is good punk rock
Based on the first two episodes, I like the new Murderbot show. I think it has the right amount of quirkiness to capture the tone of the books
Finished reading: The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne has plenty of evidence to make you mad about the state of Canadian democracy, along with many ideas about how to fix it. The trick is to get a political party to do something about the problems 📚
Finished reading: The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison continues a great series. Such great attention to language and precise world building makes these books a joy to read📚
🚴 Fun long ride today
Wow, Andor S2E8
Signs of spring
Finished reading: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is a fun exploration of what makes things spread (ideas, behaviours, viruses). You know what you’re in for with Gladwell and this is a good follow up to The Tipping Point (25 years later!) 📚
Looking forward to the new season of Foundation!
A new feature in HealthFit shows that I’ve been pushing the training too hard. A better balance would be 80% in low aerobic. Although I feel okay, I’ll fit in more recovery runs and rides
🏃♂️ Recovery run
🚴 Cruising through Watopia this morning
🇨🇦 Great piece by Paul Wells: Solomon’s vote
The Liberals won. Mark Carney returns as prime minister. He’ll get to name another cabinet, meet Parliament for the first time, govern if he can. But the result forecloses cheap gloating in ways I find satisfying. Canada is a country that wishes things were easy. Maybe they aren’t meant to be easy.
Monarch Park. 📍
🏃♂️ Track Tuesday: 3x 1 mile + 3x 800m
Riverdale Collegiate Institute. 📍
🏊♂️ Mixed intervals
🇨🇦 Voted! Only took a few minutes
🏃♂️ Much better weather today than yesterday for a run
🍕 Pizza night
Finished reading: A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab is fun and a worthy book in a great series 📚
🚴 Despite the high winds, cold temperatures, and occasional rain, I was glad to get outside for today’s ride
🚴 Planning for the first outdoor bike ride of the season tomorrow. So, wandering the house trying to find all the gear. Note to self for next year: put it all together in a box for storage
George is enjoying this spring weather
🏃♂️ I don’t have a bike at the in-law’s. So out for another run
🏃♂️ Pool is closed today, so swapped in a long run
Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey is enthralling. Nothing much happens and yet so much about humanity, science, and our place in the universe is explored 📚
Finished reading: At the Trough: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums by Laurent Carbonneau is a timely read, given Canada’s challenges 📚
🔗 The leader in your mirror by Paul Wells
We put too much burden on our leaders, and it makes them act silly. They shouldn’t be the perfect weapon of our vengeance, or the model of every virtue we admire but never quite get around to practicing. They don’t need to know everything. They can’t possibly get everything right on the first try, and we court trouble when we ask them to pretend they’ve managed the trick.
Riverdale Collegiate Institute. 📍
🏊♂️ Night swim
Finished reading: The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead by Antony Johnston is a delightful murder mystery. Quite the cleanse after reading The Mercy of Gods 📚