Fonderthud

Been on the road for work over the past two months, 3 weeks on 1 off and 12 hour shifts, it's made running hard. Still managed to knock out at least something on the hotel treadmills half the mornings.

Heat and humidity has been crazy but I just set PR records for 1 mile, 5k, and 10k this morning. 20 minute drop in my 10k time to 1:11, not bad for my second 10k. Hoping if I keep at it this fall I can be sub 30 5k, sub 1:00 10k, and an accidental half marathon.

I use Alltrails and they cover Germany, from what I've seen an easy hiking trail is a good choice for running in general.

I have a second hand surface still running windows that I draw on. With a paper like screen protector I find it quite pleasant. Mines a 6 I think, runs Krita great I imagine it'd be even better if I ditched windows bloat.

Personal anecdote but free base nic 3mg/ml was low enough I quit without withdrawal symptoms. Salt nic, what's in most of the pods, hits harder than standard smokes for me and I had withdrawal symptoms when switching to freebase.

I finally got my wife to stop frequenting them with a moka pot and some flavored syrups. Homemade is comparable in flavor, bit less fat and sugar, and $1-2 per cup all in.

I use a Kingrinder, $50-100, milk warmer/frother, $30, moka pot, $30, and light roast Ethiopian beans. I just order in a big bag of beans for pour over and use the same for other drinks out of convenience. I've had cheap espresso makers before and the moka pot is close enough for mixed drinks.

Picked up a set of Timp 4, my Peregrines left my feet sore on my long runs, 5 miles now. Did the 5 mile run in the Timps yesterday, love the toe room and they didn't hurt my mid foot like Lone Peaks do. I still love the Peregrines they work great on more textured trails when I want to pretend I'm a goat.

Nice! I just filled a few raised beds yesterday, I've got clay, silt, and shale in my yard. Got 2 yards of top soil, 1 yard of compost delivered for $165. Called three places for soil and it was half the price of any other shops and surprisingly clean. Hope you get good veg in yours.

More power to you, I cant stand pavement or treadmills access to trails is the only reason Im able to run with any consistency.

Trails have been so darn wet around me I've only gotten out for 1-2 runs a week, probably for the best since I jumped right back to 5k for base runs after taking the winter off. Hopefully things dry out, I want mileage again. Spending a long Saturday morning running trails is just fantastic to me.

On Subaru and CVTs, I hate most modern automatic transmissions due to the rough shift and indecision but the Subaru CVT ain't bad at all.

I'm a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you're an author. Perfect compromise.

My best 5k was 51 minutes on trail, my watch says I can run a 5k in about 25 minutes. It's not happening, the trails weren't gnarly enough to double my pace, I'm just slow.