2024s
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🏃♂️ Picking up the running again. Physio didn’t explicitly tell me I can’t run, so I did 35.2km / 2,239m for the week. Maybe a little too much vert, but hey that’s what I do. Had amazing winter weather - blue skies and snow-capped mountains. Because of the snow I’m staying in the lower elevations though I’m familiar enough with our network of trails that I can still get my vert quota while keeping it interesting.
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🩼 Had an ultrasound scan on my knee. They didn’t find much in the way of the expected Baker’s Cist, but noted some small happenings around the front part of my knee which gives me the occasional sharp pain on climbs. Scans have gone to the doc for review and then the physio who I see this week. Pain has subsided anyway as I continue my strengthening exercises so I’m confident that I’ll be just progressing the exercises and continue my running.
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💻 I added a “comments” section to posts on this website (see bottom of this post). I stumbled across David’s tool Komments. I love the simplicity of it and it is very easy to manage. At the moment I am only adding ability to comment to weeknotes, quarterly reviews and my bigger running recaps as I feel they would potentially be the places where people may want to ask questions or connect on. All my posts are cross-posted to Mastodon so there is that option to converse as well.
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💻 Made a Postroll page. Now that Junited has ended this will be a nice place to dump worthy readings I stumble across.
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🏢 At work, finished green belt six sigma training. Now just have to do the online exams. Once I’ve done the green belt exam I can do a green belt project and submit data and slides to get proper certification. I have a project in the pipeline which I will likely use for this as I am wrapping up a couple now. Although they were process improvement projects, the application of six sigma was a bit light. Will be good to tighten it up a bit in this next one.
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📚 Finished reading Revenge by James Patterson. ⭐⭐⭐
Rolling fog on the lake this morning. Eery and beautiful.
Pretty fresh jog this arvo.
Small trimmings to my landing page, a weekly accumulated elevation profile, and updated colour scheme for light mode. Small wins. zakb.micro.blog
I had heard of Gomez, but for whatever reason had never given them a chance.. til now, and oh boy am I loving their 1998 debut album “Bring It On”. They’ve got a decent discography so looking forward to diving in.
#gomez #music
Hard slog but very rewarding run today with beaut weather and good chats. First 3k in the fog, next 7km under the snowline, then 20k of undulating snow covered range “running” making it slow and taxing. Point to point. 29.97km/2049m. First longrun in a while. I’m wrecked!
#trailrunning
It’s hard to get out the door for a run at -2°C but scheduling with a mate increases the chance of it happening. Gonna be a cold one. Cool route planned today. First long-run in a while.
96,019 blocks since I installed uBlock Origin on #firefox 3 months ago. Wonder what I’m missing.. or not. Can’t believe I lived my life without it. Those numbers are ridiculous. uBlock Origin rocks.
Weeknote 2024-W28
Perfect winter running conditions:
#weeknotes
Finished reading: Revenge by James Patterson 📚 ⭐⭐⭐ Patterson is not really my type but it was on my shelf from god knows where. It was a quick easy action romp which was what I was after, if a little silly at times.
Current #queenstown #trailrunning conditions. 👌 Fernhill loop
