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Not quite a month ago, I wrote:
>>start upping my jogging miles for a few weeks, getting ready for a race. After that, I don't know what will make me do long bouts of aerobic exercise, but maybe I'll think of something.<<
The 5 mile race was this morning, part of the excessively expanded Patriot's Day activities in Lexington. (this was the 111th running of the 5 mile race, though, not a new addition). Hypothetically I was undertrained 1, but it was fine. Jogging with walk breaks, my usual N95 duck mask the whole way, and no water drinking because I didn't want to take a plastic cup. My time was just under 58 minutes, and I was very happy with it. I replenished, including pancakes, thereby breaking off my Passover observance for this year2
My eating choices for the past week have been heavily based on almond butter, mozzarella cheese, and whole wheat matzo, with only the occasional prepared vegetable, using fresh fruit + cups of V8 to make up for it. My GI tract decided today that enough is enough, so maybe it's time to plan well-rounded meals. It's only a month until Farmers' Market opening, right?
I would like to try to climb a rock wall, once. I don't have much upper body strength, definitely not enough grip strength. It would be good to start lifting and gripping anyway. Will I make myself do that, or just pay the instructors at the rock gym to rope me in such a way that I am not in danger.
I would like to be more diligent about formally studying Korean (I am taking a class, but she doesn't require homework or give tests). Tonight, though, I am going to make notes from a youtube video I was offered by the algorithm,
I find categorizing things this way amusing, like the fake Jeopardy category "Foods that begin with the letter Q" in "White Men Can't Jump" (1992). (yes, I can remember a thing from a movie I saw once more than thirty years ago. I can't remember all the numbers I reviewed this afternoon).
I also am fascinated by how many ways the different actors (in clips from dramas) pronounce some of the vowels. The short easy words are entirely understandable regardless, especially in context.
I also continue to find the Revised romanization system less than ideal (that letter/vowel combination sounds nothing like geyoo, which is how I'd pronounce geu if I didn't know better). 막걸리 is romanized makgeolli in that system. It's a kind of rice wine. The romanization looks like it should sound Italian, but it's just mahkəlee (There I am, using a different silly transliteration system I made up).
1 I was undertrained for the half marathon last October, and it was fine also. Maybe what I have learned is how to do just barely enough to get by at a slow walk-run rate. It's hard properly judge that. This morning I felt energetic enough afterward to go to ringing practice as usual. Is my next goal to up it by another mile or so to be ready in case there's a 10k I want to do? Without working hard?
2 I'm not Jewish, but have been adjacent enough that I have been doing this for my whole adult life, so I am not about to stop. Yet, anyway.
>>start upping my jogging miles for a few weeks, getting ready for a race. After that, I don't know what will make me do long bouts of aerobic exercise, but maybe I'll think of something.<<
The 5 mile race was this morning, part of the excessively expanded Patriot's Day activities in Lexington. (this was the 111th running of the 5 mile race, though, not a new addition). Hypothetically I was undertrained 1, but it was fine. Jogging with walk breaks, my usual N95 duck mask the whole way, and no water drinking because I didn't want to take a plastic cup. My time was just under 58 minutes, and I was very happy with it. I replenished, including pancakes, thereby breaking off my Passover observance for this year2
My eating choices for the past week have been heavily based on almond butter, mozzarella cheese, and whole wheat matzo, with only the occasional prepared vegetable, using fresh fruit + cups of V8 to make up for it. My GI tract decided today that enough is enough, so maybe it's time to plan well-rounded meals. It's only a month until Farmers' Market opening, right?
I would like to try to climb a rock wall, once. I don't have much upper body strength, definitely not enough grip strength. It would be good to start lifting and gripping anyway. Will I make myself do that, or just pay the instructors at the rock gym to rope me in such a way that I am not in danger.
I would like to be more diligent about formally studying Korean (I am taking a class, but she doesn't require homework or give tests). Tonight, though, I am going to make notes from a youtube video I was offered by the algorithm,
I find categorizing things this way amusing, like the fake Jeopardy category "Foods that begin with the letter Q" in "White Men Can't Jump" (1992). (yes, I can remember a thing from a movie I saw once more than thirty years ago. I can't remember all the numbers I reviewed this afternoon).
I also am fascinated by how many ways the different actors (in clips from dramas) pronounce some of the vowels. The short easy words are entirely understandable regardless, especially in context.
I also continue to find the Revised romanization system less than ideal (that letter/vowel combination sounds nothing like geyoo, which is how I'd pronounce geu if I didn't know better). 막걸리 is romanized makgeolli in that system. It's a kind of rice wine. The romanization looks like it should sound Italian, but it's just mahkəlee (There I am, using a different silly transliteration system I made up).
1 I was undertrained for the half marathon last October, and it was fine also. Maybe what I have learned is how to do just barely enough to get by at a slow walk-run rate. It's hard properly judge that. This morning I felt energetic enough afterward to go to ringing practice as usual. Is my next goal to up it by another mile or so to be ready in case there's a 10k I want to do? Without working hard?
2 I'm not Jewish, but have been adjacent enough that I have been doing this for my whole adult life, so I am not about to stop. Yet, anyway.
