🤫 Sitting quietly. Reflecting.
🤫 Sitting quietly. Reflecting.
This morning I headed out on the second run of the Watch to 5K program. I chose the same route that I did for last week’s run, a path that runs along the edge of the Kahului airport here on Maui. The weather was beginning to heat up, but I find it a pleasant path - not too busy, good views of the island, and the smell of the ocean nearby. Like my first run, I stuck to the emphasis of focusing on running and not racing. Watching my pace. After all I am training.
Interestingly on this second attempt at the Watch to 5K I am noticing more people who are out running and more importantly not trying to break records. Just setting steady paces that work for them.
By picking the route that I have I am meeting more runners which I am thinking is good for me. I can use their example to influence my own pace. Let’s just hope that I don’t meet many pro-runners!
An afternoon rainbow from a week ago. Its posting got forgotten in a software hiccup. 🌈
Tasty artwork.
Currently reading: The Story Handbook by Helen Whybrow 📚
Sprouting again. It feels rewarding to see the seeds grow.
☕ Yesterday was a five coffee day. I am already on my third coffee today, and it is not midday yet. Two is normally where I stop, apart from every now and again. A new pattern? What’s up? 🤷🏼♂️
☕ Yesterday was a five coffee day. I am already on my third coffee today, and it is not midday yet. Two is normally where I stop, apart from every now and again. A new pattern? What’s up? 🤷🏼♂️
I’m finding Logger for Shortcuts an indispensable tool for developing Apple Shortcuts. Available MacOS and iOS means that I can text Shortcuts regardless of which device I am using. I can track what is going on as Shortcuts run and don’t have to temporarily break Shortcuts to display a value.
Highly recommended.
Shadows in the night.
Well yesterday I restarted my attempt at completing the Watch to 5K program that for me came to a complete standstill four months ago. I did go for a run while we were in Portugal. At the time I thought that that would be my Watch to 5K restart. No such luck. One run and that was it.
So yesterday morning I went out with the intention of restarting the program. I decided that I would start from the beginning as opposed to trying to pick some appropriate spot mid-program. It felt cleaner to do so and would give me some perspective as I progressed through the program’s stages. This time I also want to be more conscious of how I am running. By that I mean that it became apparent to me, with the help of online feedback from Rex, that I was running too fast for training. I was essentially racing against myself. That eventually tired me out and put me off completing the program. Yesterday, I ran more consciously, with the intended emphasis on running and not racing.
I’ll see where this leads, and continue to map my progress here online. Accountability helps me.
☕ Oh dear. It’s a three coffee morning.
☕ Oh dear. It’s a three coffee morning.
I received this electronic sticker by email today. My first vote in a US Presidential Election since becoming a US citizen in 2022. The Hawaii Primaries.
A short wave video for the Pacific Wave Association. The wind was blowing hard that day. I felt exhausted by the time that we got back to the car, the wind blown out of my sails. The waves weren’t big, but the ocean was a choppy, choppy, choppy, with the ocean blowing strongly from east to west.
Those times when I have to do something that I really don’t want. I end up wasting time either doing other things that need doing, and are easier, or I simply waste time on mindless activities.
…and then I get done what needs to be done. Whether I like it or not, and simply feel better for putting it behind me, even if there is a follow up that I do not look forward to.
I can breathe a little more for getting the job done, and leave myself wondering - again - why I just didn’t get on with the job in the first place?
I’ve been remiss in my lack of videos for the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. This one is from yesterday. I was driving home and stopped for a moment to look out to the ocean, get my feet wet and breathe in some sea air. As the sound indicates, it was very windy.
Whenever I’m unsure what the weather is doing here on Maui, I always remember a reply that my wife once gave in answer to a question as to what the weather was going to do? She said,
Wait five minutes.
It is sound advice here.
Young puppy, Mochi, my step-daughter’s little French Bulldog getting curious about the sheep next door. What is not shown is the other sheep and cow looking on. How wet it was that afternoon. How I had to push my way through a hedge to get to Mochi, and go back through it once I had Mochi. How Mochi was in no hurry to be picked up, and by the time that I did get to him, he was covered in mud…and then ran straight back down to the animals once I had cleaned him off.
Oh the mischievousness of youth…whatever the breed.
