Topic
health
- Forming Habits
This year has been an experiment for me in how one goes about forming habits ā at least those of the healthy, positive variety. We're all familiar with falling into negative habits and how easy that can happen. Thereā¦
- Night Running
With all my commitments each day between work life, kids, and other things, it's hard to fit exercise into the schedule. Combine that with the struggles I have personally with rising before the kids to get running in,ā¦
- 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 nā¦
- Exploring Cycling Data with Python, Strava and PostgreSQL
This is an interesting project on GitHub for syncing data from the Strava API for analysis from a local database. I've had my eye out for some way to do this cleanly ā to use the Strava Activities API to sync each traā¦
- Foxelli Headlamp
Since I do so many of my runs at night (even as late as 10-10:30pm), I've always been mindful of being visible for safety. Until we moved last month, I used to drive down to the Coffee Pot Bayou area and run on what'sā¦
- Goal Progress: April
I was able to stay on track this past month toward my 2019 goals. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| |ā¦
- Moving to Three Months
I still haven't published the long backstory on my cancer battle from 2017. It's still a work-in-progress. There's a draft going, but I want to make sure I do justice to the whole story properly, and it's a little harā¦
- Weekend Reading: Running Maps, Thinking, and Remote Work
šš»āāļø On the Go Map Found via Tom MacWright, a slick and simple tool for doing run route planning built on modern web tech. It uses basic routing APIs and distance calculation to help plan out runs, which is especiaā¦
- The Breakthrough & Immunotherapy
I've been listening to the audiobook of The Breakthrough, Charles Graebel's book about the origins and effectiveness of immunotherapy for cancer treatment. There's been a draft post in my archive for months to tell aā¦
- Goal Progress: March
Month three is in the books. A seriously eventful month for us, so I'm surprised I was able to stay ahead of the curve. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|-------------ā¦
- Itās Not About the Number
As Iāve been pushing onward with daily meditation practice on Headspace, the āstreakā number has been climbing higher and higher. I have mixed feelings about this in terms of driving motivation. Is the desire to increā¦
- Goal Progress: February
We just crossed month number two of the year, so hereās another pulse check on how Iām tracking against some personal goals for 2019. Iām tracking on all fronts, slightly better positioned against the pace marks thanā¦
- Goal Progress: January
This is the first year I set some goals on a few things. Iāve never been strongly goal-oriented, so I thought Iād put some stuff down to hold myself accountable and see if it helps build some healthy habits into my roā¦
- Peter Attia and Zubin Damania Conversation
Iāve listened to a few of Peter Attiaās The Drive podcast episodes. This one was a stand-out conversation between him and Dr. Zubin Damania. Itās a wide-ranging discussion about the health care system, diet, creativitā¦
- 2019
With 2018 in the rear view, itās time to set some goals for 2019. Here are some things I want to focus on, and some markers to aim at by year end. Health Run 500 miles ā At just under 10 per week on average, this feelā¦
- 2018 in Review
2018 was a good year, both personally and professionally. Rather than a long-winded post about everything that happened, hereās a brief summary of accomplishments, major events, family stuff, and travel. Personal Readā¦
- Thanksgiving
Things to be thankful for, 2018 edition: Good bill of health, finally A beautiful little guy turning 1 yesterday A 3 year old that loves school, makes us laugh, loves us and her brother, and Iām proud of every day Anā¦
- Veterans Day
Iām blessed to work with a large group of veterans these days. Iām thankful for the service of all veterans for making that amazing sacrifice. Itās easy to get wrapped up in nonsense, shortsighted, heated politics ā Tā¦
- Don't Think Too Hard About Your Running Form
The experiment was designed to test a theory in motor learning that distinguishes between directing your focus internally or externally. A large body of research suggests that focusing externally, on the consequencesā¦
- Running Update
After a tumultuous 8-10 months since last summer, Iāve gotten regularly back into running the last few months. I did over 50K in distance during August. I havenāt checked, but that must be a personal record. There werā¦
- A Comparison of Activity Trackers
The concept of activity tracking is getting ever closer to ubiquitous nowadays with the prevalence of dozens of mobile apps, wearable wristbands, and other health monitoring tools like Bluetooth-enabled scales and vidā¦