I saw #writerslift on a twitter profile, and thought I’d found a community of writers who also lift weights. But no.
Tag: exercise
2022-02-25 06:06
Someone should make an anime series that’s just training montages. Sword-fighting training. Rock climbing training. Running. Martial arts. Always training for some competition or danger, but the series skips those and just goes on to the next training montage.
2022-02-01 12:23
The pale green lichen and the dark green moss are what caught my eye, and then I thought, “Oh, this might be worthy of a #thicktrunktuesday post!”
2022-01-25 19:09
“The research team discovered that 35 days of continuous exercise improved learning and memory deficits in the aging animals.”
Source: Optimal levels of exercise reverse cognitive decline in mice
I’m afraid I’m not up for 35 days of continuous exercise. Probably not even 35 hours.
2022-01-23 07:03
I’m only rarely in shape to run 7+ miles, and even more rarely in shape to do it in the winter. 🏃🏻♂️
I spotted this toy in mile 4, and paused to get a photo.
2022-01-17 08:03
On Friday I did a 4 mile run. 🏃🏻♂️ Around half way, a Red-tailed Hawk flew low over my head and struck at prey in the lawn across the street. Then, before I could get my phone out, flew up into a tree. You can see it there: the bird-shaped smudge about 2/3rds up.
2022-01-06 10:38
Two writing sessions got me 1,067 words, and brings me to nine #amwriting days in a row. Now I need to rush through my morning exercises if I’m going to get in my workout in time to grill steaks for lunch. 🏋🏻♂️ ✍️
2022-01-02 10:28
1,028 new words in my WIP, plus wrote out my critique for @limako’s latest story. Now time for my workout. #amwriting
I am not a list-keeper
Very occasionally I wish I were the sort of person who kept lists.
It’s most common that I regret not being a list-keeper when someone asks for book recommendations, especially when they want something in a particular scope—the 10 best books I read this year, or three books that I’ve given as gifts.
I’m always daunted by a request like that, because I have no idea what books I read this year.
Some of my tools—in particular, Amazon and my Kindle—do some amount of list-keeping for me. The public library could, but by default it doesn’t. (For very legitimate historical reasons, librarians worry about their patrons’ privacy, and since they don’t need to keep track of what books you’ve checked out once you’ve returned them, they default to forgetting about them.)
I played around with using a little toy tool called IndieBookClub, which posts the books you enter to your site, but it didn’t do most of the things you’d actually want such a tool to do (associate the books you’re meaning to read, books you’re reading, books you’ve read, and your thoughts about them), so I didn’t find it very useful.
Some people really enjoy the process of keeping lists, but that’s not me. Basically, I don’t want to keep lists, I sometimes want to have kept lists. I sometimes regret not having a list of something, but not in a way that makes me think I should start keeping such a list.
I do track some things—money, exercise, sleep—when experience has shown me that doing so is of great value, but in most areas of life I don’t keep track of anything at all.
Just today—after a year of having this post hanging around in my drafts folder—I saw plans for folks working on IndieWeb stuff to talk about how to do personal libraries in a way that would produce decentralized Goodreads-like functionality. That would really appeal to me.
In the meantime maybe I’ll look around at some list-keeping tools (or maybe start using a few pages in my bullet journal to keep track of books and other things worth tracking).
I’ll keep you posted. Maybe next year will be the year I keep a list of one more thing!
2021-12-22 12:02
My “fast” run for this week was just an ordinary 4-mile run, except around the midpoint I set my interval timer and did all-out sprints 5 x 10″ with 50″ recovery. 🏃🏻♂️
