Author: mattcroce

weekly things – 09-18-2020

here are some things i found or were sent to me this week or that i’ve been enjoying this week:

  1. did ai ruin chess? make it boring? can it be fixed?
  2. on going feral. i don’t think i’ve gone feral. have i? i don’t know.
  3. when math gets impossibly hard. for me this is anything past long division.
  4. new york’s public art in 1973.
  5. winamp skin museum.
  6. the billionaire that wanted to die broke.
  7. song exploder on screen? sign me up.
  8. the gleam iii.

weekly things – 09-11-2020

so obviously posting a daily update on running didn’t work out. i ran a 50-miler recently and at some point i’ll write up a race report.

for now here are some things i found or were sent to me this week or that i’ve been enjoying this week:

  1. bill murray’s face in famous paintings
  2. velocipedia – realistic renderings of human attempts at drawing a bicycle
  3. python tutorials
  4. haruki murakami: “maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.”
  5. best method for making bacon
  6. in praise of the awkward silence
  7. what my running coach (sarah keyes) was up to last month
  8. polyphia – mostly instrumental, kinda prog rock – i’ve been playing this a lot in the background while i work

RunLog Days 11-14

Saturday 8/22: 12 miles scheduled, 0 miles run. Spent the day working on a deck at my house.

Sunday 8/23: 8 miles scheduled. 13.13 miles. 2:34:53. 11:48/mile. 1414 feet elevation gain. Last real run before Baker 50 on Saturday. This felt great. Spring Energy gels were terrific again. Feeling good.

Monday 8/24: Rest day.

Tuesday 8/25: 6.22 miles. 50:56. 8:11/mile. 400 feet elevation gain. Relaxed but strong run. Felt pretty good throughout. Just focused on running relaxed and staying injury free before Saturday.

RunLog Day 9

4.43 miles. 40:43. 9:13/mile. 479 feet elevation gain.

Super casual today. Quick lunchtime run around the neighborhood and local park. Starting to relax a bit and taper my way to Baker next weekend.

RunLog Day 8

8.55 miles. 1:15:21. 8:49/mile. 1,004 feet elevation gain.

Workout today. 3 mile warm up. 4x: 3-minutes uphill at good effort (7-9/10), 3-minutes jog back down. 3 mile cool down.

Hill repeats are never very fun. I chose to do mine on Stanton Avenue today, which features a nice long hill from Lawrenceville all the way to Stanton Heights. I very nearly didn’t even begin this workout. It was quite difficult to get out of bed today, but I’m glad I did it.

This was my last big workout before the Baker Trail 50-miler at the end of the month.

RunLog Day 5

7.50 miles 1:07:28 9:00/mile 869 feet elevation gain

Easy and relaxed today. Couple hills. Blasted the last mile – downhill! First week in a month or so that I’ve actually run all the runs on my plan. So that’s good.

RunLog Day 4

15.01 miles today. 2:36:43. 10:26/mile. 1,654 feet elevation gain.

Early morning in Frick Park. First hour plus was in the dark. Everything felt great today. Spring Energy was amazing. Two week until Baker!