The past few months . . .

I guess I could've just continued posting like I had been posting; cycling, gym, insomnia. I guess it probably was getting boring, and nothing about posting now suggests anything less boring. Just marking time, I guess.

It was a super mild and dry winter in Taipei. All my preparation and bracing to get through another cold and wet Taipei winter turned out to be overkill; useful for only a handful of days at a time.

I should have been riding through good days in January and February, but just didn't get around to it. Finally getting on my bike in March, I've been struggling to accumulate distance, despite having getting back to the gym regularly since January.

The older you get, the harder it is. Treadmill running at the gym has continued to improve and I've been surprising myself at meeting my goals in incrementally increasing speed and distance. That said, treadmill running and road running are two totally different animals.

At my age, even one mile on the road is as hard as three or four miles on the treadmill. It's one thing for my legs to propel my 145-150 pound carcass over land at a certain speed and another to move my legs while the treadmill beneath me moves at that same speed. The latter being much easier.

To date, treadmill goals I've hit have been to run 45 minutes at no hard pace without injury, complete 5 miles in 40 minutes (8 minute miles), and 4 miles in 30 minutes (7:30 miles). A goal I still want to hit is 6 miles at an 8 minute per mile pace.

Once I hit that goal, I want to venture more towards extending distance road running without injury. I haven't ventured more than one mile on land at a track. And I have been incorporating Pose concepts as I've been able, but I'm still not convinced I'll be able to fully become a Pose runner.

Sleep has been the same as it ever was. Cycles of competent sleep with cycles of insomnia that I take in stride since I don't have to do anything otherwise. If you can't sleep but still have to do something, that sucks. I don't have anything to do, so when I can't sleep, it's actually not a big deal.

Socially, I've only met up with my former Chinese teacher a few times.

ptd. 3/24/19 -ed.