Rob R-S

📚 Finished reading: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, ISBN: 9781607747314

Not for everyone. Quick read. I wanted to like this more than I did. There are some good nuggets in here, but there’s also staggering hubris (e.g. “None of my clients have ever relapsed”… bullshit). I also could have done without all the anthropomorphising (the things and the home don’t have feelings). The nuggets can be summed up easily:

Decide what to keep.
Decide where to keep it.

Audiobook available for free on Hoopla.

📚 Finished reading: Enough by Patrick Rhone, ISBN: 9781105595011

Great collection of essays, fast & easy read, lots to think about.

📚 Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, ISBN: 9780486784755

Great book, not at all what I expected based on film and TV depictions. I got the audiobook free from Apple Books a while back.

Seen on my run. This morning The Boy ran the entire Black Squirrel Half Marathon course (including 1900 ft of climbing).

Seen on my run.

It’s been a joy to spend the last decade with this great little guy.

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Watch 23 hours of running in under 4 minutes in this video I made of my race at the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn0m8i_EnsE

It was a joy to see our friends’ bluegrass band, FY5, play in Old Town Square last night.

Here’s my favorite song of theirs.

Seen on my run. The Boy is training for a marathon this fall. We ran a very hot 10 miles today.

Here’s a video I made while spectating the Broken Arrow Sky Race 52K at Squaw Valley on June 22.

I really wanted to get there one second faster.

Friday: Western States check in and relaxation.

Thursday: Squaw Valley again. A lot of snow has melted since last weekend.

Last week:

This week:

Wednesday: Duncan Canyon, around mile 27 on the Western States course.

Tuesday: Michigan Bluff and Eldorado Canyon, around mile 55 on the Western States course. We were all shaken by the events of Monday evening, but my wife, son, and all the Sheriff’s deputies insisted I carry on with the race preparations for this weekend.

Monday: Everything is fine now.

Near the end of their hike and my run, our 9 year son ran ahead of us on the trail, took a wrong turn, wondered around the forest for hours while we frantically searched for him, encountered a bear, and was eventually picked up around sunset by the search and rescue team we requested via SOS on our satellite tracker (we were an hour drive from cell signal). Many thanks to the Placer County Sheriff Department for coming through for us in a big way.