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  • Garmin’s Auto Goal

    Garmin’s Auto Goal

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesGarmin allows you to select the number of steps you want to take in a single day, or let it be set automatically. For a year or two I allowed the goal to set. The result is a step goal that fluctuated from 12,000 steps per day to 15,000 steps or more.…

  • The Last Thing I learned

    The Last Thing I learned

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat is the last thing you learned? I am currently learning to run five kilometres again. I’m one week away from completing the training program. This isn’t learning in the conventional sense of the word. It’s about fitness and endurance. About pacing and stamina. I have run five k in half an…

  • Visiting Buildings

    Visiting Buildings

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a rule that you should often visit churches and other buildings, if you are authorised to. You can often find something interesting. In the case of the Temple De Crans-près-Céligny it’s the kitsch paintings and blue colour. The other reason is for the view when you are outside, especially on…

  • Mischievous Shoelaces

    Mischievous Shoelaces

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a run earlier than usual and had to deal with mischievous shoelaces. They decided to come undone at least three times during the first three kilometres before I finally got them to behave. I went for a run earlier than usual because rain is forecast for this afternoon…

  • Twitter, As a Joke

    Twitter, As a Joke

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter went down and I didn’t notice, yet again. According to The Verge it has been down five times in five weeks. It goes down so regularly that it feels as if they have allowed the Netflix Chaos Monkey to run freely around Twitter code. They say that they need to rewrite…

  • Spring Watch

    Spring Watch

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMagnolias in Nyon

  • The Absurd

    The Absurd

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the last few weeks I have been thinking about the absurdity of life during this pandemic. People are pretending the pandemic is over and falling sick with a disease that keeps them sick for months. Entire professions are now unstable so finding work is harder. Millions of others are unable…

  • A Spring Walk

    A Spring Walk

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  • Not a chance

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo you believe in fate/destiny? Nihilism

  • Cycling and Running

    Cycling and Running

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI like cycling, hiking and climbing rather than running but I read an article that makes me think that cycling and running are incompatible. In one sport the leg becomes a spring and as you run it becomes fine tuned to reflect the energy back into forward motion whereas in cycling torque…