Topic
goals
- Progress Report, August 2023
Health & Habits Running 17 activities Distance: 87 mi Total Time: 15:35:31 Average Pace: 10:43 / mi Sleep Average: 7:04 / night 8 hr nights: 7 Writing Journal entries: 9; 7,009 words Blog posts: 7 Newsletters: 1 Media…
- Progress Report, November 2022
I'm late getting my November update posted. November (and still, in December) was a rollercoaster of a month. Just so much happening with professional and personal, I've hardly had a moment to do much at all — neither…
- Progress Report, October 2022
This time I'm including the previous month's to see month-over-month change, so progress (or lack of) is visible. Health & Habits Running 8 activities (6) Distance: 26.44 mi (17.33 miles) Total Time: 3:59:24 (2:32:34)…
- Progress Report, September 2022
Health Running 6 activities Distance: 17.33 miles Total Time: 2:32:34 Average Pace: 9:08 / mi Sleep Average: 7:21 / night 8 hr nights: 10 Writing Journal entries: 14 (7292 words) Blog posts: 19 Newsletters: 2 Media Re…
- Progress Report, August 2022
Health Running 5 activities Distance: 14.55 miles Total Time: 2:06:54 Average Pace: 8:42 / mi Sleep Average: 7:22 / night 8 hr nights: 9 Media Reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer ░░░░░░░░░░…
- Progress Report, July 2022
Kind of a wild month. I had a good week in the middle with consistent running, but otherwise underwhelming. I did do better with sleep this month. Health Running 9 activities Distance: 23.2 miles Total Time: 3:25:28 A…
- Progress Report: June 2022
Health Running 13 activities Distance: 28.67 miles Total Time: 6:28:54 Average Page: 9:03 / mi Sleep Average: 7:20 / night Media Reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer ░░░░░░░░░░▓▓░░░░░░░░ 52-…
- Progress Report: May
Another month is in the books. I had a couple of trips this month, but did slightly better on running. Still pretty far away from the regular habit I used to have. Health Running 12 activities Distance: 26.7 miles Tot…
- 103 Bits of Advice from Kevin Kelly
A list of observations and life tips from Wired's Kevin Kelly. This entire list is self-highlighting. Fantastic stuff. Worth bookmarking and reading back through monthly. A few favorites: No one is as impressed with y…
- Progress Report: April
This month was a weak one on the health front. I think I only got 2 or 3 runs in, and my sleep has been garbage. Maybe I can do better in May. We have plans to join the gym nearby, so that should coerce at least worki…
- Progress Report: October
I'm going take a stab at rebooting the monthly progress posts I used to do back when I was diligently tracking several goals through 2019 and 2020. Each month I'd look at how I was tracking against plan for fixed targ…
- Reboot
"Bring yourself back online..." — Bernard Lowe When I pumped the brakes on my daily writing routine last year, I had designs on some other interesting projects to spend time on that the daily demand wasn't giving me s…
- 2020 Goals Review
I'm a few days late in getting around to reviewing how I did on the goals for 2020, but what's new there in a year full of challenges? It's an understatement to say that for anyone that set quantified personal goals a…
- Rolling Windows for Goal Tracking
Since the beginning of 2019 I've been tracking ongoing goals using a Google Sheet I made, where I can enter each activity day by day and generate a rollup showing how I'm tracking on each goal throughout the course of…
- 2019 Final Thoughts
Since I already wrote up my overview of 2019 a couple weeks ago, here are some final notes to close out the year. I continued the practice of posting here every day this year. I've been enjoying it as a means to keep…
- Goal Summary: Meditation
First up on the year in review is the meditation practice. I started out doing short meditation sessions sort of randomly late last year. I'd only remember to do it occasionally, maybe a couple times a week. While tha…
- 600 Miles
The goal at the start of 2019 was to hit 500 miles running this year. Tonight's run pushed me up to 602 miles for the year, with a couple of weeks left to go. Through the mid-summer time I was only averaging 42 to 45…
- The Every Day Blog
Inspired by Fred Wilson’s AVC blog, I started posting something every day here last year on October 4th. The 1 year mark passed by and I didn’t even notice. It’s become such a part of my mental routine to keep up with…
- 13.1
Today I finished my first half marathon. Felt great until about mile 10 when things got a lot harder. The final mile was painful, but I got it done and even ended up pushing it to under a 10 minute mile average pace (…
- Elevate for Strava
Jason turned me onto this Chrome extension for Strava data analysis called Elevate. It's a pretty amazing tool that adds deep analytics on top of the already-rich data Strava provides natively as part of their Summit…
- Half Marathon
I've committed myself to running my first half marathon, coming up in October. This sort of happened on a challenge from a couple folks at work. I didn't really intend to throw something like this into the schedule th…
- Habits vs. Goals
As I've written before on this topic, separating goal-setting from habit-forming is important to do if you want to have success at either. Often people set goals without defining the daily behaviors that will enable t…
- Run Shore Acres
For no particular reason I decided to try and run every street segment in my neighborhood. A while ago I saw this project from ultrarunner Rickey Gates where he ran every single street in San Francisco. Of course my n…