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#running #telemetry 🤣

this two lines are speed vs. time over the same route, fifteen days apart.

my total perceived effort was about the same, but in the second one (red) it felt faster to me. Might be because I tried to put focus on more sustained efforts than the first day (blue), and when finished I thought I may well be at least two or three minutes faster. I was wrong, I was exactly 1 minute slower. It does not matter, but I guess mood, internal dialogue, plays a role here (for the good and the bad). Weather, health, etc. were about the same, just changed my focus on the exercise.

  1. day 1 I started way faster. It's slightly downhill, following a river in the forest. I also remember being slightly annoyed for things (life).
  2. 🤣 slow corner entry to get earlier on throttle #Formula1 Actually it is the first steep section where I have to (should) walk (200m at about 20% incl). The first day I stopped earlier, walked at the same pace, and could start running earlier again. This is important in races: stop running before you feel you should.
  3. here it is the part I was putting focus on (the final steep part of the climb). The first day I started walking; then run faster than the second day; then two small walk sections and run again to the top. Here my perception was that I was faster this second day, but looking closer I was a little bit slower. Again, powerhiking and walk/run saves energy for about the same total time or even faster.
  4. here is the plateau and downhill section run, about the same pace and intensity, where I recovered some of the initial lost time (unintended).

I did not look at my watch while running, in any of the runs. I did not have my phone or music while running, so I could focus on myself and feel. This runs are very useful to me, analizing is just #geekery

Of course, being 1 or 2 minutes faster/slower in a 104 minutes trailrun is totally irrelevant, what is important is learning to selfpace.

That's it. Have a nice day :pikawave:

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I still did a book report about The Hobbit, but added one for LotR as well (surely #nerdery and #geekery are attached at the hip), and I would make sure to keep up a yearly LotR re-read for the next few decades.

For sure that was the first thing I could see as "fandom" to belong to, but I was well too young and technology wasn't there for me to "subculture" it. I just would go on to read The Silmarillion and his other books, study the lands and battles and travels in The Atlas of Middle-Earth intently (Karen Wynn Fonstad is a magical human being), reread a Bestiary to re-absorb all the lore out there...

All things #tolkien all the damn time.

Not ALONE, of course. I would chase into fantasy writ large due to this influence, and onto sci-fi as well, but Tolkien was my first "geek home."

I've never been a Harry Potter fan, but I love those magic wand replicas.

They're only the cheap kind (but pretty great as toys, my kids got three. I expect them to want more soon. They're on sale at Toys R' Us, less than 10€ each) but if I had extra money to spend, I could be interested in a more realistic one.

It reminds me how much I miss my replica swords (from Kill Bill and LOTR) and it breaks my heart that I'll never be able to bring them to Japan. :-(

#HarryPotter #MagicWands #Geekery #Swords #LOTR #Japan

Talking about "identifying as a [XXX]", it would be good to be able to have all the bloody IoT devices using a mDNS name that means something rather than C345797384.local

I would spend less time trying to find who is who on the network #Geekery