- Details
- Category: Blog
- By Stuart Mathews
- Hits: 8047
Today was quite an interesting day really. For the most part it was because I learnt a very important lesson today.
I was walking by and I noticed the circus, as I had done on numerous occasions recently. "Le Cirque de France, Santcus Circus". I usually seem to admire the arrangement, the master tent and just put my head down and carry on really. Today I didn't. Today something said, "...you might as well do it". I thought yes, I might've. Perhaps it was the third time that I evaluated the thought and turned back. What I found particularly aware of was why, like so many things in my life, I thought not to. So I did and it was absolutely the right thing to do, to think that a moment went past that such a thought may have just left me and I'd walk right past.
Strange really, opportunity isn't it?
There, but somehow, easily missed.
This I think is a wonderful realisation: your life, what you do,how you feel, is in no uncertain terms, your move. Somewhat like a chess piece where in life, you may choose to move move your piece and engage or simply watch the game or even still, wait for a game to start - only your game won't start until you move a piece.
I think it's a benchmark really, even though it seems trivial that a single unusual occurrence, thought or event can awaken an interest or begin a trend that could have far reaching consequences. Rather interesting.
I also went for a 9km run this evening which taught me a fair deal about endurance: Pacing oneself, and using technology and information to calibrate your performance. I knew this would be the longest run I'd do in the training program, so I set goals. 1. know when you are half way - turn around and go back. 2. stay at the same pace all the time. 3. Don't deviate from the plan.
4. If I stay at the same, comfortable pace all the time, distance wouldn't matter - that would come without effort.
In truth, this was exactly what happened. I tracked my heart rate to between 150-159 for the entire duration of the run, falling back when I exceeded and moving up when I fell below 150. Every 1km the watch intelligently light up in the dark and informed me. Periodically I tapped the watch to show me what my heart rate was and half way throughout the race, at 4.5km it told me I was half way there.
I think if it wasn't due to always knowing what I was doing in terms of my running statistic, it would be much more difficult to manage the pace and thus manage the endurance.
I also decided that I would watch a movie in Wimbledon called Tinker Taylor Soldier - very well done, quite secrety agenty.
It's Sunday and tomorrow I must go forth and program computers because that's what I love.
I was walking by and I noticed the circus, as I had done on numerous occasions recently. "Le Cirque de France, Santcus Circus". I usually seem to admire the arrangement, the master tent and just put my head down and carry on really. Today I didn't. Today something said, "...you might as well do it". I thought yes, I might've. Perhaps it was the third time that I evaluated the thought and turned back. What I found particularly aware of was why, like so many things in my life, I thought not to. So I did and it was absolutely the right thing to do, to think that a moment went past that such a thought may have just left me and I'd walk right past.
Strange really, opportunity isn't it?
There, but somehow, easily missed.
This I think is a wonderful realisation: your life, what you do,how you feel, is in no uncertain terms, your move. Somewhat like a chess piece where in life, you may choose to move move your piece and engage or simply watch the game or even still, wait for a game to start - only your game won't start until you move a piece.
I think it's a benchmark really, even though it seems trivial that a single unusual occurrence, thought or event can awaken an interest or begin a trend that could have far reaching consequences. Rather interesting.
I also went for a 9km run this evening which taught me a fair deal about endurance: Pacing oneself, and using technology and information to calibrate your performance. I knew this would be the longest run I'd do in the training program, so I set goals. 1. know when you are half way - turn around and go back. 2. stay at the same pace all the time. 3. Don't deviate from the plan.
4. If I stay at the same, comfortable pace all the time, distance wouldn't matter - that would come without effort.
In truth, this was exactly what happened. I tracked my heart rate to between 150-159 for the entire duration of the run, falling back when I exceeded and moving up when I fell below 150. Every 1km the watch intelligently light up in the dark and informed me. Periodically I tapped the watch to show me what my heart rate was and half way throughout the race, at 4.5km it told me I was half way there.
I think if it wasn't due to always knowing what I was doing in terms of my running statistic, it would be much more difficult to manage the pace and thus manage the endurance.
I also decided that I would watch a movie in Wimbledon called Tinker Taylor Soldier - very well done, quite secrety agenty.
It's Sunday and tomorrow I must go forth and program computers because that's what I love.
- Details
- Category: Blog
- By Stuart Mathews
- Hits: 7326
So I got my PAW1500T-7V. It's pretty great. The manual is as thick as the last book I read(although only 1/3 of it's in English so maybe unfair comparison). I've pretty much figured put most of it out now - few nights reading the manual played huge dividends.
So apart from this, work is getting pretty busy because we were a bit slow during the last iterations and now we are going into testing and still need to do development - go a great position to be but we're pretty flexible so we'll get through just fine.
Still training. Getting ok, couple of days I head out for a 5km one evening and it felt easy - that's training for you, I suppose.
Been mucking with some cloud/onlibe tech in the evenings on my no-run and finishing reading a book I'm into at the moment but besides that not hugely much. Read this book called the Blue Suitcase its a historical account about Nazi Germany. I enjoyed reading it.
Couple of nights ago, I got completely lost for the evening as I was engulfed by all that is Cartoon network, Johnny Bravo - ho ha hoa huh! it's the newly found things i enjoy the most I find.
Yesterday was even weirder - I was on sitting in the tube and made an exciting, ground breaking discovery:
People with long feet are long tall.
Maybe that's obvious or maybe I was just bored on the tube...
Yesterday, at work I heard the funniest malapropism in a while(normally it's me or my dad doing these!). A person was saying how lost he was in something and it "...was like spitting in the dark". I nearly fainted I laughed so much.
We're scheduled to move to new offices in a couple of months which is pretty exciting so should go and scope out my route - I got a cool new watch with an Altimeter, Barometer,Compass so I'm thinking gotta use it practically - very geeky indeed. Ive already used 4 of the 5 alarms, abd countless other functions.Don't know what else has happened...my mind is pretty forgetful but what I can definitely say is that I'm very happy and want for nothing and life is great.
I leave you with my best quotes:
"every man lives a life of quite desperation"
- Therou
"fortune favours the bold"
- anon
"screw you guys, I'm going home"
- Eric Cartman
So apart from this, work is getting pretty busy because we were a bit slow during the last iterations and now we are going into testing and still need to do development - go a great position to be but we're pretty flexible so we'll get through just fine.
Still training. Getting ok, couple of days I head out for a 5km one evening and it felt easy - that's training for you, I suppose.
Been mucking with some cloud/onlibe tech in the evenings on my no-run and finishing reading a book I'm into at the moment but besides that not hugely much. Read this book called the Blue Suitcase its a historical account about Nazi Germany. I enjoyed reading it.
Couple of nights ago, I got completely lost for the evening as I was engulfed by all that is Cartoon network, Johnny Bravo - ho ha hoa huh! it's the newly found things i enjoy the most I find.
Yesterday was even weirder - I was on sitting in the tube and made an exciting, ground breaking discovery:
People with long feet are long tall.
Maybe that's obvious or maybe I was just bored on the tube...
Yesterday, at work I heard the funniest malapropism in a while(normally it's me or my dad doing these!). A person was saying how lost he was in something and it "...was like spitting in the dark". I nearly fainted I laughed so much.
We're scheduled to move to new offices in a couple of months which is pretty exciting so should go and scope out my route - I got a cool new watch with an Altimeter, Barometer,Compass so I'm thinking gotta use it practically - very geeky indeed. Ive already used 4 of the 5 alarms, abd countless other functions.Don't know what else has happened...my mind is pretty forgetful but what I can definitely say is that I'm very happy and want for nothing and life is great.
I leave you with my best quotes:
"every man lives a life of quite desperation"
- Therou
"fortune favours the bold"
- anon
"screw you guys, I'm going home"
- Eric Cartman
- Details
- Category: Blog
- By Stuart Mathews
- Hits: 6741
It's day 5 and I've been waiting for my Watch delivery. I've been expecting it each and every day since I ordered it - a mistake I'll not do again(keep expecting it) and besides that it sucks not having it. I've probably watched every YouTube video on it and now just want it. I think now, I'll probably make a video on it it because I'm so good at watching these stupid videos I know what I want to know about the watch - bit of a substitution for not actually having one!
So day if it doesn't arrive, that's OK. I'll probably just cry for most of the weekend because today is Friday and I expected it yesterday. frik
In other slightly less depressing news, I've been proactively following a 5 week training program as training for an upcoming fun run coming up in just over a month. I went to work drinks yesterday just to say hi to the new people that have joined my work, couldn't stay for long for two reasons. One, I had a scheduled 35 min run and I already had a conversation with the one new person at work that I wanted to. Ended up getting home after the run at 23:00 which is almost as good a reason not to stay too late on Central London for those drinks. I ended up not road running because it was dark when I got home so I took a gym bag and walked to gym where I did my quota on the treadmill. Has a HUGE club sandwich which I couldn't finish. Showered and chilled(or sweated) in the stream room for about 5 mins or so.
Coming down with a cold/sore throat which was one of the sidelined reasons why I didn't run to gym in the dark but cold air.
Ended up putting my canvases up in the apartment with Velcro so I can interchangeably move them around. looks cool.
I was thinking while on the tread-mil last night, should I wait for my friend when we do the 10km run or should I just see how quickly I can finish the race? I suppose it'd be cool to run as a group - I'm not a pro runner so I ding need to run a good tine or something.
Work has generally been OK, bit slow recently. Some guys went absailing down out building for the Red Cross and generally the weather was pretty killer so I had a lunch in the sun.
Was also thinking how cool my apartment is. Trying to remember every moment that I have with it, like ending up at home after a long walk from the gym...so cool.
Oh just in case I've not sprayed it all over twitter and my site already, the watch I'm after is the Casio PAW1500T-7V. lovin it
So day if it doesn't arrive, that's OK. I'll probably just cry for most of the weekend because today is Friday and I expected it yesterday. frik
In other slightly less depressing news, I've been proactively following a 5 week training program as training for an upcoming fun run coming up in just over a month. I went to work drinks yesterday just to say hi to the new people that have joined my work, couldn't stay for long for two reasons. One, I had a scheduled 35 min run and I already had a conversation with the one new person at work that I wanted to. Ended up getting home after the run at 23:00 which is almost as good a reason not to stay too late on Central London for those drinks. I ended up not road running because it was dark when I got home so I took a gym bag and walked to gym where I did my quota on the treadmill. Has a HUGE club sandwich which I couldn't finish. Showered and chilled(or sweated) in the stream room for about 5 mins or so.
Coming down with a cold/sore throat which was one of the sidelined reasons why I didn't run to gym in the dark but cold air.
Ended up putting my canvases up in the apartment with Velcro so I can interchangeably move them around. looks cool.
I was thinking while on the tread-mil last night, should I wait for my friend when we do the 10km run or should I just see how quickly I can finish the race? I suppose it'd be cool to run as a group - I'm not a pro runner so I ding need to run a good tine or something.
Work has generally been OK, bit slow recently. Some guys went absailing down out building for the Red Cross and generally the weather was pretty killer so I had a lunch in the sun.
Was also thinking how cool my apartment is. Trying to remember every moment that I have with it, like ending up at home after a long walk from the gym...so cool.
Oh just in case I've not sprayed it all over twitter and my site already, the watch I'm after is the Casio PAW1500T-7V. lovin it
More Articles …
Page 94 of 182