Howdy. Zak's the name. This is my little space on the web. The navigation links at the top of the page are the gist of the things you'll find, but I throw in some random thoughts and ramblings too.
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Failing miserably at customising my website.
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Cosmos keeping the colour alive mid Autumn. Cracker day.
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Little website revamp. Learning soooo much.
Here’s my wee haul for lunch today.
#GardeningNZ
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Quarterly Review 2024-Q1
- 🏃♂️ Went back to the West Coast to bag Mt Griffin trig A9RQ. Didn’t quite complete the loop I intended but was a much better experience than last time when I got lost in a snow storm.
- 🏃♂️ The Revenant Ultra with Gladdy. Completed a lap at least. Hoping to join again in 2025 as a solo entrant so I can cut loose.
- 🏃♂️ A Real NZ Mountain Marathon Hell of an experience. 6.5 hours of slogging it through relentless Fjordland terrain and weather.
- 🏃♂️ Climbed a direct route up Ben Lomond with Tom.
- 🏃♂️ Another jaunt up Mt Larkins and Mt Alaska
- 🎨 Created my first Book-on-a-page in Excalidraw to help retain what I read.
- 📅 Participated in February’s Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2024. Won a voucher for most KMs in week 3. Bought a pair of much needed padded riding pants.
- 📅 Went to work’s free morning yoga classes during March.
- 👪 Hung out with Dad and Ruth before I got COVID.
- 😷 Finally got COVID (I’m now at day 8 and still battling).
- 🥕 Harvested annual garlic crop.
- 🥕 Harvested annual onion crop.
- 📚 Read Making it all work: Winning at the game of work and the business of life by David Allen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- 📚 Read Fit Sout, Fit Body: An ironman and a shaman put you on the path to lasting health and happiness by Brant Secunda and Mark Allen ⭐⭐⭐
- 📚 Read Strategic Doing: Ten skills for agile leadership by Edward Morrison ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- 📚 Read The Grammer of Systems: From order to chaos & back ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- 🎯 Saved my emergency fund target!
- 💲 My Allocate Smartly trading system made 4.2% for the quarter. Been running 8 months now. System is 7.6% annualised return to date (it had a rough start).
Approaching Mt Griffin
Heading towards Lake Adelaide during “A real NZ mountain marathon”
Onion harvest
Approaching Ben Lomond from the front
Chillin on Mt Larkins, looking over the ridge to Mt Alaska
#PlanAndReflect #QuarterlyReview