The other day I wrote about how I needed to get back into my running. How I had failed so badly at my goal to run a fun run a month for a year. Last year the dog days of August got me. I couldn't find a race in August. This year it was my crazy April and May. Well, I am back on track in June, and hopefully making up for lost ground.
Yesterday I ran a 5K. Ran fairly fast too. Surprisingly fast . . . but isn't that the way I always run these damn things.
So, you read so much about not looking at screens before you go to bed, how it effects your sleep, that I decided a while back to listen to the advice and give it a try. The first book I read before bed was a book about Rangers, the next was a horrible book on Delta Force. The problem with these books is that in some respects I’ve lived the live, I know how hard it is, there is no mystique about being wet, muddy, tired, or pushed beyond your limits. And if you can’t actually write well . . . Pass.
A few posts ago I gave an update on my running and racing. You'll remember I had that goal to run a 10K a month for a year. You'll also recall that I failed.
March and April just became too tough for me to keep at it. Too many things going on. Too many activities.
Some of you loyal readers might have noticed that I have not published a post in a bit. Why is this? Well, it's a fairly good reason, if not the most easy to overcome. When I look at the data for number or readers in the blog settings, the number has shot up recently. In some ways that's good, but when I dig deeper I see that most of this new readership comes from one place . . . Singapore.
I heard a great podcast this morning that was all about ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a fungus that infects ants and drives them manic or insane. The podcast likened this fungus in ants to the idea that people need leaders, or that leaders are better and more apt that people. It was a bit of a libertarian podcast as you can guess.
I'm reading "How to Write Alot" by Paul J. Silvia. Yes, this is for a class . . . my very last class thanks very much. It's on Writing and Publishing in the academic world. So, it should help me move forward on my white papers, my dissertation, and other writing projects.
I hate when I read a book by a well-known and prolific author and find that I really enjoy the writing and the story. Why? Because it means for too long I didn't read the book and I should have. That I had been wasting my time NOT reading the author when I should have been.
That is the case right now with Danile Silva.
Today on my jog I gave a lot of thought to cattle and sheep and how people don't get along . . . do get along, . . . fail to grow together . . . or work together over time.
My pre-Kindle life revolved a lot more around bookstores than my post-Kindle life has. I remember going to bookstores all the time in the Army and reading, reading, reading. Heck, I read Gone with the Wind when I drove home from the Army by stopping at bookstores and picking up a copy of the book that they had and picking up where I left off. Never bought it, just read it throughout the drive at every bookstore I could find.
So, one of my goals this year was to run 10K’s a month. It could be as two 5K races, or as one 10K race. But some how, some way I needed to run 10K a month.
Well, remember when I said this spring was tough for me. School, work, life, etc. Well, guess what fell apart right about the April or May time frame. Yeah, that’s right, the 10K challenge.
I believe this is the second weekend in the past three and half years where I didn't have some looming deadline, or homework due, or something to do.
Usually on weekends, I wake up early, have some coffee and read a novel with Sadie. Pet a cat if she comes over and needs a lap. Eventually, after a chapter or two, Sadie comes over for a skritch and a head scratch, and I get up. I head upstairs and start working on homework.
