Zone 2 Training Lessons 2024-03-03

In today’s example of “this is why I blog”: as I implement Zone 2 training for doing distance running again I was lamenting not having done so for my 2013 marathon training. According to my race recap post it turns out I did implement Zone 2 training. Well, I thought I had anyway. Looking back over the data however it is pretty clear that I did not. That’s not just a question of my race performance, where I threw all of that to the wind anyway, but also looking at the training data from that era as well.

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2024 Goal Accountability February Closeout/March Kickoff 2024-03-01

February was a lot stronger showing than January, especially in the diet department. Whether I can keep that momentum moving forward into a much more difficult March will be the challenge.

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2024 Goal Accountability January Closeout/February Kickoff 2024-02-07

I’m a bit late on my closeout/kickoff for the goal accountability but here we have it. So how did I do with meeting my goals for January and what are my plans for goals for February?

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Closeout of My Potential Cancer Risk Reduction Multi-Day Fast Version 2.0 2024-01-29

At the beginning of the month I did a week long “water” fast meant to potentially reduce my life-long cancer risk. The methodology I was trying for was described in this kick-off post . With now two weeks of data for the period afterward I can fully document how successfully the fast went and what the effects were on my immediately measurable and tracked biomarkers. What is impossible to do is determine if this is actually doing anything to reduce my cancer risk. That’s something that will at best be determined over time. It’s anti-climactic I know. The “results” question for me in the immediate term is if I’ve crafted a fasting protocol that works for me with minimal side effects.

The usual disclaimer applies: I am not a doctor, trainer, dietitian, nutritionist, or any other expert in any related field. I’m talking about my amateur and anecdotal experiences here and none of this should replace expert medical advice.

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My Potential Cancer Risk Reduction Multi-Day Fast Version 2.0 2024-01-04

It’s about time for me to ramp up my second week long fasts. I developed this for my own needs and did the first try of it back in July, as documented here . For this second round I’m going to be tweaking some things based on lessons learned from my first attempt. Below I’ll outline everything again and the changes I’m making to it.

The usual disclaimer applies: I am not a doctor, trainer, dietitian, nutritionist, or any other expert in any related field. I’m talking about my amateur and anecdotal experiences here and none of this should replace expert medical advice.

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Annual Review 2023: Finally A Real Fitness Reboot 2024-01-01

Year after year my annual review starts with a lament about wanting to do better, a candid review of actual metrics, and then some plan for moving forward. This year is similar but also different. I still wish I did better but this is the first year that I had a serious, long term fitness reboot since I started this annual tradition. So no, it wasn’t perfect. It started off pretty poorly actually, but with the longest period of having stuff dialed in and a stronger finish than I’ve had before I am excited for what is to come.

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Friendica Database Size Management 2023-11-26

I’ve been on the fediverse since creating my first Diaspora account in 2018. I’ve maintained my own presence here since establishing my own Friendica server in late-2021/early-2022. While it definitely has its ups and downs by far one of the biggest things to watch out for is the ever increasing size of the local storage for these servers. It’s not just about content generated by the local users but also content comming from across the fediverse that those users interact with. This post tries to capture some of the commands I use to get a picture of what is going on on my server.

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My Sourdough Starter Making Journal 2023-11-08

I started with making sourdough bread back in 2010 when a neighbor gave me some of his starter. I’ve kept that going ever since, with him having kept it going since the mid-1970s. During the COVID lockdown when the sourdough bread making thing was taking off people kept asking me how to start one. The thing is, I never started one from scratch. I decided to do it, document it, and post about it on my blog to help people. As I see now I did the first two parts but never actually documented it here. This post remedies that, albeit almost four years later. Below you will see the source of the program I used, the overall theme of it, how the process unfolded for me, and my first bake with it.

Picture of the tartine loaf done at the end
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2023 Goal Accountability Phase 9 Closeout/Phase 10 Kickoff 2023-09-12

Phase 9 of this year’s Goal Accountability is now in the books as well. The novelty of keeping the exercise being dialed in is now gone. I’ve manaed to keep that dialed in for another four weeks straight. There was some falting, both planned and unplanned, in the other metrics though.

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2023 Goal Accountability Phase 8 Closeout/Phase 9 Kickoff 2023-08-13

A third full Goal Accountibility Phase since my reboot is now in the books. I’ve continued to build on my previous three periods of momentum even as I have had more perturbations to my schedule. I’m thinking of making big plans beyond the baselines here, specifically with respect to my cardiovascular training. However I don’t want to self sabotage by having those loftier goals cause me to stumble and bring the whole house of cards down.

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