Cav's Place

I did say I planned to try running again and, unlike the first time, yesterday I actually managed what I meant to do. That didn’t include looking into using the track, since a store where I could recharge my prepaid phone card is next to the park and my number was set to expire on Saturday otherwise, so I went there again to take care of both things at once, but doing almost half a lap around the lake and finishing by climbing out to the sidewalk on one of those little paths felt comfortable enough this time around that I’m quite sure I could have done a full lap as well, at the same speed.
In fact, the speed was a bit of a problem, since I was apparently still too fast, covering the 1.3 or 1.4 kilometers in about eight minutes, so averaging around 10 km/h when an article I read recently concluded that the best pace would be around 8 km/h. Of course, that same analysis sets an upper limit for maximum benefits at three times per week, up to a total of two and a half hours, by which I can easily assume that once and for a mere eight minutes is well below the lower limit, and possibly that even the plan I now have, of around 30 minutes when I’ll actually start doing this properly, will be rather little. However, it’s still better than nothing, and I may work up to an hour or so later, though that will quite clearly be my upper limit.
Also had a chance to see just how light my new shoes are and how well my feet breathe in them, as I actually looked down a few times on the way to the park, because it felt like I wasn’t wearing any. Or, well, not really like I wasn’t wearing any, but the feeling was definitely highly unusual. Not particularly keen on it while walking normally, and that’s made slightly worse by the fact that, while the left is a good fit, the right one seems a bit large even with these thicker socks, but they definitely do their job right when you’re running, so at the moment they seem to have been a decent choice, especially considering the price when compared to other options.

Otherwise, in spite of my recent posts, I did keep my eyes on GOG.com‘s “Double Insomnia” Promo and continue to do so, at least for a chance at a free game. After all, two of the games included in the promo that I’m interested in are regionally priced, so I’ll never purchase them, but if there’s the slightest chance I may get them for free for simply clicking the “buy now” button, it can’t hurt to try, right? And there are a few others I’m not sufficiently interested in to purchase, but which I wouldn’t mind having around, just in case, so clicking those as well, though otherwise I stay out of it, unlike others who seem to click everything, hoping to get something for free whether they’re actually interested in it or not.
Did purchase two games, however, and those are Banished and Children of the Nile Complete, which cleared what was left on the Paysafecard purchased last April, and which would have therefore started having a monthly fee taken out of it as of next month otherwise, at least as far as I understand the terms. Also, as I do each time it’s on sale, again seriously considered Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, but once again, also as I do each time it’s on sale, decided against it, wary of the fact that I’ll give up on it after the first few missions and never try again due to the fact that you apparently can’t save during a mission.

I guess this would be about it for now, since there’s little else to say, other than perhaps the fact that Sunday evening I did manage to finish that Deceits adventure in The Witcher. Didn’t even start the next one though, and probably won’t this week, since there’s the matter of needing to switch to try another antivirus, likely on Saturday, and then there may be a protest to go to on Sunday. Also may not be, or I may choose not to go, as I’m quite undecided at the moment, but I don’t see myself as doing much of anything until next week either way.