Cav's Place

You’d think that, after running the distance of a half marathon on Tuesday and also walking about one and a half kilometers to the park and back, I’d have spent the rest of the week rather off my feet. And, in truth, that’s what I thought as well, but it sure didn’t happen, despite not sleeping well either. I mean, got some six hours yesterday and only about three and a half today, and I’ll be getting even less tonight, or more exactly in the morning, since I’ll be waking up for the race.
The lack of sleep is why I’m writing this quick personal post now, actually, since I have one in mind with a suggestion for a new Formula 1 qualifying format, now that they gave up on that experiment after two races and returned to the old one, but doubt I’ll manage that tomorrow and, as usual, want to avoid another Sunday update. The thing is that I have that post “written” in my mind in detail and initially meant to try actually writing it yesterday, but then gave up on the idea and now I’m worried I’ll mess up some numbers or other details due to being tired, so better leave it for next week.

To return to the distance covered on foot this week, there was a debate announced for Thursday, the topic being the rise of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, as part of what I learned is a series of discussions on the modern Left in the Anglo-Saxon space, which was picked as the topic when the organizers tried to look for one that’d tackle something that needs to be discussed and developed in Romania while at the same time staying away from the mess that Romanian politics are, especially since we have both local and parliamentary elections this year. Either way, though it would appear that the event was streamed and also recorded, before it started it didn’t seem like it was going to be, so I decided to go and, while the rain made me take the metro there, I came back on foot, plus that I also got a little confused in that area, after getting off the metro, so I walked for some time then as well. This added over five kilometers more, probably around six, but let’s say five and a half.

And then there was today, when there was a fair with Romanian products in a park that’s far away from where I live. Most of them were obviously going to be clothes, a fair amount of the rest jewelry or accessories, but there were a few interesting things as well, so I thought I’d have a look and also decided to go there on foot, in part also to prove to myself that I can manage it just fine. And that was even though I had no money on me, so there was no chance to actually buy anything even if I’d have somehow managed to do so, which was in itself extremely unlikely due to requiring actually interacting with someone directly and also choosing a product with crowds around me and people staring. So, for pointlessly struggling to squeeze through the crowd for less than 15 minutes in order to have a quick look, I walked for three hours, about one and a half each way, apparently covering 18 kilometers, which doesn’t count any distance covered as I wandered around inside.

Round everything to the nearest half a kilometer and you have 21 plus 1.5 plus 5.5 plus 18, 46 kilometers, but let’s simply go with the “over 45” from the post’s title, to be sure. And my muscles are mostly fine, my knees are also quite fine, the only problems being my right hip and a certain spot above my right ankle. A bit worried about those, as this may take a toll on joints and there’s also such a thing as stress fractures, but that spot got better after the run and should probably get better now as well if I’ll give it a little time, and I’m hoping the hip isn’t anything serious either, as I seemed to just be able to push through the pain today and it actually got better as I did so, starting to act up after only some three kilometers but then not being much of a problem the rest of the way, with the exception of the moments when I had to cross some rather steep bridges as I crossed the park to reach the fair.