I started reading the Dorito Effect today. It's about how, at the cost of production, food is becoming more bland and, in turn, more flavored by artificial means. Pretty interesting.
Unrelated: I want to download a bunch of royalty free folk music and set it over videos of nature and the outdoors.
Very successful outing. We crossed streams. Went up and down many steep banks. Got lost and went in a big circle when we were trying to go straight. Saw a mysterious black tube with buckles on it. Saw a shiny blue balloon. Found mysterious white fungus. Knocked over a dead tree. Just walked around on a beautiful autumn afternoon.
Since September, my roommate Will George and I have been planning to march into the unchartered depths of the camp woods. Today the temperature is mild and damp and much of the flora has receded. We will head off into the unknown.
102 minutes. It gets dark really early. It felt much longer than 102 minutes. My legs got tired at the end. Yesterday I ran the same time but in the middle I stopped at the UVA track and ran a 4:57 for 1600m in my tevas sandals. A sandals PR!
I feel excited and prepared for the 8k next saturday. My goal was low-26 minutes but now I feel confident that I can break 26, which is in line with other races I've done and I feel like I'm in comparable shape to the past. On Wednesday Peyton and I had 2x3200 with 3:30 rest in 10:32 and 10:21 then a 4:00 rest and a 1600 in 4:59. And I was pretty well rested but the paces in the 3200s felt comfortable. I'm most encouraged by how good everything felt rather than how hard I was able to run. So that's good. The rest of the runs this week will only be between 50 and 60 minutes and all about feeling gooooooooood.
To appreciate that I'm no longer in school, spent the afternoon in downtown cville and the light was incredible.
Currently in the JMRL. A library. I meant to post at least once a day this month. Already messed that up. Ran out of data yesterday. I'm learning to severely cut back on using data. Which has had the effect of drastically reducing YouTube and chrome use. I'm still weaning myself off the instagram explore page which sucks up a ton of data. But the upside to all of this is that I'm excited about reading and going to libraries again. Particularly the reading. A much better way to be engaged than the internet.
So it occurs to me as I'm writing this that this blog could be a repository for small thoughts that happen throughout the day. Like texting myself. Instead of its old function, when I had wifi for a laptop, of trying to little pieces of writing, drawing, whatever.
Anyway, that's the plan.
What I'm checking out of the library today:
-everyone's an aliebn when ur a aliebn too
-the dorito effect
-food anatomy
-best efforts by kenny moore
To get anywhere in this modern time world, you're gonna have to use a whole bunch of words.
- please
- thank you
- sorry
- dos cervesas
Word for your lives, dudes.
