Author: RK

I’ve got a triathlon this weekend, and I’m curious how it’s going to go. I’ve done this exact tri before, and now it’s been a year and I’m hoping I’ll be stronger than last time, my first time doing this race. Also I had just gotten over covid like a week prior, last year this time! My running has been pretty solid because I’ve been getting like 5 runs a week, sheesh. My bike is getting stronger lately, but all this takes time and is slow. My swim somehow seems to be taking a dive (lol), but this is a weird one – first half is against the current, second half is with it (there ‘n back in a river). So the only comparison is my performance last year!

Another day, another phenomenal experience with partselect.com. As soon as we finished the siding project, the dishwasher seemingly busted, but only a bit – the dishes come out quite wet and it does not seem very hot. The heating element is cool to the touch, so that means it won’t heat the water more than tap, and that steam sanitize does not work. It is still usable but only with some babysitting. So I looked up the model number of the dishwasher and bought the exact part, which it also explains how to install and it seems really approachable! Wish us luck that it’s this $80 fix instead of a whole damn new dishwasher!!

In so much as 99% of fitness influencers are culpable for internet-worm-borne eating disorders, they really have an outrageously criminal omission in failing to share how to fuel oneself, both outside of the workout and within! If you’re doing a hard effort, you need carbohydrates, electrolytes, and water! If you’re doing a long effort, you need same. It scales by time, not really by effort though there can be some modulation. If you get in the habit of fueling every time, you will not be so wiped after a workout! It shouldn’t make you want to lay down and die after. Should NOT.

I finally have Cory Doctorow’s latest from the library, the third (and final?) in his recent series Red Team Blues, called Picks and Shovels, and his books are just catnip to me lately. His observation and love of both ethical comportment/pro-user regulation and of Computer is just so ridiculously soothing to read. Library book pages are different than paper, but damn this was just 96 (library) pages for the PROLOGUE. I am so happy that this will be a lonnnngg and chewy journey with this book.

I’ve been spending a lot of time on the triathlon subreddit, trying to learn and be part of the community and keep abreast of what’s happening, and aside from the overgliders (mostly kidding), there is so much commonality in this sport and it’s really wonderful to all encourage each other! I’m doing a race tomorrow and while it isn’t my “A” race for the season, I’m quite excited and hopeful for a good-for-me result!

We paid some landscape types to cut and haul away all the blackberries, and now the onus is on us!! to actually!!!! keep them from getting out of hand again! My wife and I (we got married a few months ago :)) have been getting really fired up about making the outdoor space nice, so of course today on a national holiday (no kings, no masters, our country is not good right now) we are getting after it!

Missing social media tbh! I just don’t want to go back to what the options are. I want to NOT be aware of What’s Going On, because I’ll hear about the really important shit and the play by plays are “simply none of my business,” as a friend says!! But the thing is, I have much stupid nonsense to say. Maybe I’ll just keep editing one page on here for the truly banal stuff, and you can “comment” on it by emailing me. This will never happen lmao.

I ran the half marathon!! It was good as hell!! The Portland (half) Marathon course was great like SO great, our run club made signs for us, there was a silly little app, from which you could send a personalized link to your peeps, who could then leave you messages that would be read out to you live by a robot which was so much more touching than it sounds!! I am feeling BEAT, UP by the race, but mentally I felt just easy breezy about the number of miles. Have to be able to handle it physically and mentally! My body was over it but I was just really enjoying the passing of distance, trying to catch up to myself, etc. a really great race.

Tomorrow, I run a half marathon, which is overall less time of an effort than the races I did over the summer, but it’s just one thing, for like two and a half hours! Wish me luck ahhhh I am Nervous