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20k on Election Day. Up early, out the door early in an effort to avoid my previous problems from last week on this run. No problems this week, just my feet. In fact, today was a new PR for this course. Andy Jones Wilkins had a new PR on one of his courses the other day, good for him, good for me, though my run was not the pure effortless joy that he described. Nonetheless, it was good stuff.
Ran the 20k loop the reverse way again. Starts with more hill but the back side hill is longer, but not as steep as the Vladimyrski Spusk. Still a fairly medium to tough course.
I'm watching this knee carefully. I did some stretching last night and did some exercises for strengthening after today's run. I also took a look at mindfulness instead of assuming mindfulness. I found that there was more relaxation when I was truly mindful about the steps, instead of the assumed mindfulness I may have fallen into over the last few days. This is probably a good wake up call.
In terms of what else is going on, I bought an ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T which is what I am typing this on. It is a tablet that isn't Apple. After several days of research I finally pulled the trigger. The selling point for me was the word processing ability, and the docking keyboard.
Over the last several days I have been unable to work with anything other than the breath. I've tried concentrating on the breath in an effort to just keep some mindfulness from day to day. As we know last week was not the best, there was intermittent following of the breath, but there was no meditation whatsoever. I've managed to move that back in to the frame this weekend. I've also managed to stay mindful of the object (my breath) to some extent. Tomorrow is a new day and hope to start the day that way.
Today is election day, voting day in Ukraine. My run was marked by militia every 100 meters throughout the section along the river. This was about 3 km of militia just standing there at about 9:15 in the morning. I certainly didn't see anyone out voting in that area, but maybe later.
No voting for me. But I can still follow my breath.
20k on Election Day. Up early, out the door early in an effort to avoid my previous problems from last week on this run. No problems this week, just my feet. In fact, today was a new PR for this course. Andy Jones Wilkins had a new PR on one of his courses the other day, good for him, good for me, though my run was not the pure effortless joy that he described. Nonetheless, it was good stuff.
Ran the 20k loop the reverse way again. Starts with more hill but the back side hill is longer, but not as steep as the Vladimyrski Spusk. Still a fairly medium to tough course.
I'm watching this knee carefully. I did some stretching last night and did some exercises for strengthening after today's run. I also took a look at mindfulness instead of assuming mindfulness. I found that there was more relaxation when I was truly mindful about the steps, instead of the assumed mindfulness I may have fallen into over the last few days. This is probably a good wake up call.
In terms of what else is going on, I bought an ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T which is what I am typing this on. It is a tablet that isn't Apple. After several days of research I finally pulled the trigger. The selling point for me was the word processing ability, and the docking keyboard.
Over the last several days I have been unable to work with anything other than the breath. I've tried concentrating on the breath in an effort to just keep some mindfulness from day to day. As we know last week was not the best, there was intermittent following of the breath, but there was no meditation whatsoever. I've managed to move that back in to the frame this weekend. I've also managed to stay mindful of the object (my breath) to some extent. Tomorrow is a new day and hope to start the day that way.
Today is election day, voting day in Ukraine. My run was marked by militia every 100 meters throughout the section along the river. This was about 3 km of militia just standing there at about 9:15 in the morning. I certainly didn't see anyone out voting in that area, but maybe later.
No voting for me. But I can still follow my breath.
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