🏊♂️🚴🏃♂️ First race of the season tomorrow!
I actually enjoy this part — the setup. Laying out all the gear, checking the list, thinking through the transitions. There’s a quiet focus to it. A bit of nervous energy, sure, but also a sense of calm from knowing I’ve put in the work.
Getting everything ready is more than just packing — it’s part of the ritual. It helps me visualize the day ahead and ease into race mode. Time to trust the training and enjoy the race.
🎵 Great to hear a new Rival Consoles album: Landscape from Memory
🎧 I’ve made a few updates to my default apps. I’m now using Overcast for podcasts (again) and Albums for music.
Both replace Apple’s default apps, which prioritize new content over easy access to media I’ve already selected—presumably what I actually want to listen to.
The recent rewrite of Overcast’s Apple Watch app was the tipping point for the podcast switch. Most of my podcast listening happens on the Watch, and the new app is a big improvement.
Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan is a fun and imaginative sci-fi retelling of the King Arthur story (and much more) 📚
Another fun analysis in The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland, this time of Mad Max style warfare
This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. So we’re going to be professionally silly this week and talk about the logistics of vehicle warfare in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting, in part because this is a good way to also think about why militaries (of various description) use the vehicles they use, from a logistics standpoint.
🏃♂️ Nice break after several days of rain for today’s long run
🎵 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
