Progress Log ?

Holding steady on weight. Including on maintaining within the UK
guidelines. Mostly because I haven't been logging calories over the
blizzard break.

Over the last few weeks, I have come up with a few new workouts. The
first, which I tried out last week, was mile trials. That is, running
on a treadmill at a start speed and then upping the speed 0.5 mph
every quarter mile. Starting at 6.0 mph this results in a 8:57 pace.
Starting at 6.5 mph this results in a 8:20 pace. 7.0 mph start gives
you a 7:47 pace. A good, total annihilation workout.

Earlier this week tried a combo workout, which was a 2.0 mile slow
warmup, then 800m sawtooth workouts (adding 0.5 mph from start speed)
for 2.5 miles, then 400m pyramid for 2.5 miles. 7 miles total, and
all told they end up well under 10 minute miles. That kicked my ass.
I was dumping sweat early in the 800m sprints, but kept going. And
kept speeding up. Love it.

Was recently reunited with an old pile of CDs and have begun importing
them all onto my computer. Scatterd amongst them was the Million
Dollar Hotel soundtrack. A little-known movie produced and
soundtracked by U2. The final track is "Anarchy in the USA," a track
in Spanish that begins:

"Yo soy un Antichristo, yo soy anarchista....."

Which makes me reflect on the fact that I am, at heart, an anarchist.
And as luck would have it, I am currently assigned as a rulemaking
project manager. An anarchist writing rules. You can't make this
stuff up.

Fighting for song of the day is "Circus" by Carbon Leaf:

"I'm so done with this circus, yet I love this escape.... How do you
free yourself and leave the rest of the beasts in their gilded
cage......Is this where, where I belong?!? Is this where I belong?!?"

As if to confirm my mood of late, "Corduroy" by Pearl Jam comes up on random:

"I don't wanna take what you can give, I would rather starve than eat
your bread, I would rather run but I can't walk, guess I'll lie alone
just like before....."

Thanks to the rise of Trump, no doubt left that the American system of
boundless capitalism has failed. Laughably. The death throes of a
bygone era. Like all systems based on faulty assumptions, it will
collapse. They're so desperate to convince us that America is a
democracy that they have put an actual reality TV icon in the race.
How pathetic. Not sure they realized how far he would go, but
whatever. That's infotainment!

And still you will cast your vote on a machine not connected to
anything. Best of luck with that.

Me? I'm heading to the gym. It's likely to be more productive than
anything anyone else accomplishes today.