I’m not sure if I have anything to say about the marathon. I feel the closer the race gets the less I’m able to grasp what is going on. M, who is running with me is having a flu when I’m writing this. Four days till the marathon. Because of her flu I realized how unsure everything is. I mean, everything in this world is unsure but having a flu is one of the worst and most annoyingly just purely.. happening things. So I wont raise a toast. Yet.
I’ve been running. I’ve been training. I’ve been listening music. I’ve been thinking. I’ve been stretching (too little). I’ve been hill-biking. I’ve been meditating.
I feel good about the competition and my strengths. I’m currently doing the carb-loading. Nothing special, really just trying out good pastas, drinking apple juice, eating fruits and bread. I’m suppose to gain weight approximately 2 kilos during this last week. Cool. Not cool. I feel like my view of world has flipped around. Apparently I will loose around 3 kilos during the race anyway so..
I still think my motivation to do this is (in the following order)
1. Friday’s pasta party in Stockholm 2. Lemon-mascarpone pasta 3. Knowing my exact thoughts after 35 kilometers 4. A mini-holiday in Stockholm 5. New cool neon-orange shirt I bought 6. I never have to do this again (this doesn’t mean I wont)
I don’t get the Greeks. After sailing the whole day the last thing in my mind would be to conquer a continent or fight against someone.
The Coolest Guy | Left-Handed Toons
that someone is me. you should listen to this and look at the comicComic URL: http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/944/
It’s mesmerizing. Spend some time to listen different birds and just sigh deep in front of these amazing pictures.
I am convinced that Dawkins and de Grasse Tyson decided together to wear their ugliest ties. The dialogue is great, by the way.
“Science is the poetry of reality.”
Richard Dawkins in conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson about the big questions of science, including how our minds evolved to handle abstraction, whether we’ll discover intelligent life in the universe, how consciousness works, and why The Blob is a much better alien than ET.
Kahtryn Schulz, Johnny Depp, and their 7 million American friends with a tattoo.
Schulz knits together the psychology of regret. From Reply To All to tattoos and hurting each others. Truly insightful, I weeped in the end but that’s just me.
I finally found a recipe for one of my absolute favorites in terms of Chinese street food: Jianbing, egg crepes.
http://beijinghaochi.com/jianbing_recipe#more-1148
And it turns out, where ever you are at the moment (almost without an exception) you will reach nostalgia towards that time of your life when a year has passed.
(This one doesn’t have a deep-fried wonton skin inside of it. I ate it in a bus, our summer school group was hangoverish, it was early in the morning and we were on our way to a Danish furniture factory near Shanghai)
Running these days is the best activity ever imaginable and it makes me sad that I can only run once a day and not even every day. The Finnish spring is an interesting fellow. Days can be anything, you never know, and looking outside wont tell you nothing. It might be beautiful but dead cold. These are, hands down, the best days to run. It’s never too hot and you probably still get nicely tanned. (I mean, after all, tanning is the reason for running, right?)
These are the two extreme options. The fist one is from my run in the city center in a rainy, foggy day. The latter one is from my run around my parents place, in the suburbs, where you can easily find tractors and cows, mainly just expensive garden tables and middle class representatives taking their dog out. I love both of these options (trams and rain/dogs and sun).
Running song of the week (yeah yeah, I know I haven’t posted a running song for ages, so running song of the month, perhaps?) Foo Fighters. Surely I’ve been going on and on about Foo Fighters at some point? Foo Fighters is excellent for running. It’s packed, full-sounded and it’s Dave Grohl singing to you while you’re climbing a hill and the sun sets down. What are you waiting for? My favorite one is the Pretender but it’s definitely quite heavy, if you’re just looking for a steady, smooth running song. That’s why I’d like to recommend My hero. It’s rolling nicely but it has the certain aggression that I’m looking for.
20 days and I’m running a marathon. Who would have known?
