Fooblog

The vacations are over, the conferences are starting again… This weekend is EuroBSDCon in Denmark (which I won’t be attending , but a group of snow colleages is going). I will be visiting the Dutch nl.linux.org Open Source BBQ which is also this weekend (saturday to be exact).

Next month (October 13+14) brings us the 2nd edition of T-Dose, which I’d like to visit this year.

After that it’s time again for the NLUUG conference, November 7th in Amsterdam (new location), which will celebrate 25 years of NLUUG history. And before you know it we’re back at the next CCC conference (late December) and Fosdem (late February)

Last month I posted here that I had started with start-to-run, the ‘Couch to 5k’ plan that Liessa, Willow and Cailin recommended. So far everything is going quite nice. I just finished lesson 9 (doing 7 and 8 twice) and I must say I hadn’t expected it to go this smooth. As I said I did re-do part of this week’s lessons, but I’m not here to win a competition, i’m doing this to improve my health and fitness level.

Somehow I managed to make enough time in my schedule and consider it important enough to actually run for 2-3 evenings a week, at the cost of not doing other stuff which I might describe as fun. So I’ve been a lot less online, just chatting or playing games and I haven’t gotten around to much coding or developing, but hopefully I’ll get more time for that next month when I get a job closer to home and with less traffic-jams.

The intermediate result is that I just ran for 5 minutes on end (and 2, 4 and 4 minutes before that) without actually getting tired or running out of breath. The next 3 lessons should be a repeat of the last 3, so I know I’ll probably manage just fine the coming week, just struggling with the 8th lesson (interval runs).

Here’s a nice article I found regarding 5K-runs:

• 8 weeks to 5K@ Runner’s world