This 2nd week of the year as been mostly catching up on stuff after coming back from a few days of vacations, while trying to stay motivated to go running when it’s been raining pretty much non stop.

I paused my lessons with the new trainer I’d found for running, because after taking a step back and thinking about it, I realized it wasn’t the right approach for me. Where I should have felt empowered and motivated, I realized I felt like shit when I wasn’t able to run one day because of… well, life. Instead I switched back to my original plan, which is meeting regularly with a physio I like who happens to specialize in running. We’re going to plan for some strength training on top of my homework runs to stay injury-free until the big day. I’ve also aquired a static bike for cheap on Facebook Marketplace, just because. As a result, my socials’ feed are now full of ads for a 2000$ peloton bike.

Speaking of homework runs, the shop that organizes the running club I’ve been a part of for a couple of years now, has opened a new location. The original shop is in Burnaby, the new one is in Kitsilano. To celebrate the event, they organized a 19km run between the two locations. I struggled a lot on the second half, because of poor fuel and water planning on my part, but I’m glad I did it. I’m even more glad they’d hired a bus to take us back after. I only counted 48 dogs though, which is a little disappointing for a 2hours run.

Finally, I’ve spent a few hours printing a tool to re-spool some filament. It was probably my fault, but a reusable spool of filament sprung open during a print, causing the filament to run amok when I wanted to unload it. As a result, I needed to find a way to re-spool the filament, which meant printing a device dedicated to this. There is a running joke in the 3D printing community that once you get a printer, you mostly end up printing stuff for the printer itself… I guess it’s true in this situation. I haven’t attempted to respool yet, but I’m sure it will be a fun update next week.

Links from my queue

• Starting with a weird one, did you know that wombats poop cubes? I fell into a rabbit hole after someone pitched a game called “shitting bricks”. Oh, they also fight using their ass.
• Those two posts about macOS Tahoe’s choice of icons and the struggles with resizing have been really painful to read. I think I’ll be sticking with Sequoia for a little while.
• I found this article about ditching Bear quite interesting, at a time where I’ve found myself taking way more notes than before. It’s spread across my physical notebook, my deskbuddy and of course Obsidian. It did cause me to do my regular tidying of notes a little earlier than usual, though.

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