Switching from weight loss mode (1200 calories a day) to training for a half marathon is such a whiplash for my body. It’s been two weeks of increasing my intake and I’m still not eating enough calories to properly fuel my longer runs. Getting closer though.

I’m glad I’m giving myself several months before race day to really experiment and dial in my nutrition.

I wish people understood that if you ask a runner “what’s chasing you”, you are not being clever or funny, and while the runner was likely not judging your insecurities before, they probably are now.

I AM running away from something. But you’re not my therapist and I don’t want to talk to you about it. Thanks for bringing that trauma up again though 🫤

Well I've officially started training for #running a #25K in the spring. I don't know if I'm actually going to do it yet, but I'm going to spend the winter training like I will do it. And then I will make the go/no-go decision before the race deadline.

The last race I did was a #5k in 2021, a week before my grandfather passed. I was already signed up for another one but didn't have the motivation to run it after that. So I've done a 5k, now I'm skipping 10k and half marathon and going straight to 25k for my second ever race 😆

#weightloss In all the excitement of hitting my goal, I completely forgot to share it! 100lbs lost 🥳

When I hit -50 I ran a 5k to celebrate. Now that I’m at -100 I planned on running a 10k to celebrate but… I live in #WestMichigan and the Amway River Bank Run 25k is a huge event in the spring. And I’ve got all winter to either train or talk myself out of it 😂

I have a heat pump through my home's central air system and it works well to heat the house, but... I still miss the heat from a real forced air furnace. Standing in front of the vent with the heat pump running won't warm you up like the same vent with propane or natural gas. It's more of a slow-and-steady kind of heat.

Can't argue with the cost savings and it definitely gets the job done, but it's not something you'll huddle around after coming in from the cold.

I’m disappointed in #ForzaMotorsport. It’s a perfectly fine game, things work and it looks fantastic and feels right but… I’m just not digging it. There’s too many menus I just click through without needing to understand (so why are they there), forced practice before races (I’ve done this track with this car, let me skip it), and it just takes way too long to get into a race. I’ve also found the difficulty settings to vary dramatically race-to-race. I’m making huge adjustments to the difficulty before every single race. I also get very distracted by all the animated pop-ups during the race. Too much information but still lacking the one thing I want to know during a race: how many seconds ahead of me is the next car? Seriously, this is important information and I don’t see it listed anywhere?

So this will likely fall into the same category I put #ForzaHorizon and #FlightSimulator in. Games I absolutely adore and am the exact target audience for, but I’ll never play them again because futzing with the settings and getting into the action takes entirely way too much time.

I ask this question regularly and I've never gotten a good answer but here goes again: Is there any good media created about the Dotcom Era?

I was alive between 1995-2001 but I was just a kid so I don't remember much. All I really remember is the Yahoo jingle on TV and my (late) uncle losing his job regularly as companies went out of business. But I'm curious as to the culture, the people, the technology, the mindset of the time. I know the ZIRP Era very well, but very little about Dotcom. Something like Cuckoo's Egg or Bad Blood? Something that presents a narrative of the era for people who didn't experience it themselves.

So, are there any good books or documentaries or movies or TV shows about the Dotcom Era?