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🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W29

2025-07-21 18:50

Activity Stats

🏃 Run [4] 5:27:15 - 43.8km - 1637m
💪 Strength [3] 1:03:56
🤸 Pilates [1] 0:31:27
🧘 Yoga [1] 0:21:32

🏁 Total: 9 activities - 7:24:11 - 43.8km - 1637m

🏃 Starting to feel myself again regarding running and exercises. Decided to start morning runs again, and although it's bloody freezing and dark (so cold my work vehicle formed icicles), it is at the time of day that is mine and I'm finding it easier to get up and go than I do in the afternoons. We'll see how that lasts.

I like to throw in a long / interesting run on the weekends, and this one was no exception. Out the back of Arrowtown, I connected up some off-piste ridges and climbs for a nice hefty jaunt in the beautiful winter sun. I came back with bloody shins and thighs, and I'm still plucking out the tiny pricks from Horrid Spaniards that slowly make their way out of my fingers. I'm not complaining. It's a side-affect of a good route... a price I'm willing to pay. Here's a map:

🧠 Brain farting - I think I'm going to make this a thing. I'm in my head a lot (for better or worse) and I feel like this isn't a bad place to follow through with a dump of those things - This week, I was thinking a lot about my psychology of running. Why do I really run? And why do I run the way I run. The types of routes I take, the mental challenges I create, sometimes mid-run, the ebb and flow of mojo, sustaining mojo, sustaining momentum through seasons (nice one Lars!), how a certain type of day at work can influence how hard I go on a hill session, why I run solo most of the time, how I keep failing at social runs, the mental games I play to keep me going in an ultra, how I come up with an idea for a solo mission, why am I uncoachable... so many things. There's a lot in here, and I'd like to unbundle it, so I'll probably do a dedicated post in the not-too-distant-future.

📝 I continue to take a snap of the contents of my pockets on Fridays. I cracked up at Parker's artistic interpretation - ...the cable ends represent our higher aspirations. And yet, the urge to connect is seen to be empty. oof. Maybe I should attempt some witty captions next time.

♳ Plastic Free July continues. This week I made granola to replace the packaged stuff I have with yoghurt for breakfast. This recipe is killer. I've used it for years. I usually make it in an evening when I have ice cream at hand, because when you pull it out of the oven warm it is a good combo with ice cream as desert. This stuff does not last long.

💻 I continue to hoard computers I don't need, buying a Dell desktop PC off marketplace for $20 this week. Haven't switched it on yet, and the seller had no idea, so who knows. I've been gifted a 1TB hard drive, and apparently there's a big stack of them coming my way, so I've got my eye on hard drive enclosures, to begin setting up a proper file/photo/media server, but sheesh they're not cheap.

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