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Fitness chronicles: A helpless dangler
Fitness is tough. Especially if you want to be Mr. Apollo and do pull-ups (and kick sand in people’s faces, ha!). Wanting something a little different yesterday morning, this is what I did: 3-4 minutes walk then 5 mins jog (to Regents Park) 3 sets of: 12 inverted push-ups (feet on bench) 2 reverse pull-ups… — read more
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The Grand Canyon
Yesterday, at liberty, I went to the Grand Canyon. With the Cadillac Escalade, the 4 hour drive there was reasonably easy and comfortable, with some decent stuff on the radio and the really excellent satnav (though basically it’s just Up a bit, Left a bit, Up a bit…Fire! on the map). The scenery changes were… — read more
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Runner
As I progress with the C25K program, I am using different iPhone apps to help me along the way. Today was Week 6 Run 3, a solid 25 minutes of running with 5 minutes warm-up and cool-down at each end. Since I figured that I didn’t need the Voices in my Head so much, I… — read more
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Highlife and Palmwine
Run with uplifting music. That’s important. Today, I’ve just completed the slightly infamous Week 5 Session 3 of C25K, where after a 5 minute walk to warm up you run uninterrupted for 20 minutes. Now that’s nothing for you seasoned runners, but for the tyro the prospect is slightly daunting. Anyway, with the help of… — read more
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Exercising
In the ongoing annals of Keeping Fit, last Sunday was an unexpectedly tough day. First, I set off for my walk/run in the park as part of my C25K endeavours, but failed to notice that I had completed Week 3 and so have moved on to a rather harder session; Plugged into the iPhone, with… — read more
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Watering bonsai
Good tip: Stand the tree in sufficient water to come halfway up the trunk. Allow to soak for 20-30 minutes. Drain water. Put tree back in original position. From bonsai-ko.co.uk — read more
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Mayfly time
A couple of Saturdays back I was down at the Avon, on the SDFFA water, for some fishing. Ostensibly, it was a day of ‘dry-fly instruction’ though in effect there wasn’t much instruction. It was good to meet some fellow members, though, as I normally don’t see that many. After a spell at Figheldean Bridge,… — read more
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Spring cat haiku
Cool Spring morning Sleeping cat twitches in bed – an ecstasy of hunting — read more
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Competitive Ted returns
At Oxford, there was a guy known as Competitive Ted because he turned everything, no matter how simple or trivial, into a challenge. He wasn’t mean-spirited or petty as far as I know, but rather seemed to have an endless boyish desire to turn everything into a race. I was cycling along today and there… — read more
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Mahlerschade, or smallish quantities of fairly mild inner torment
This is by a long way the funniest thing I’ve seen for a while. From Infocult, via a tweet from GreatDismal William Gibson: Mahler rehearsal notes. *IMPORTANT* Share Yesterday at 10:29pm Several weeks ago, we sent you a list of translations of the German markings in the Mahler. We now realize that this list contained… — read more
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