First long run of the training. It was only 30 minutes, but it’ll go up next week. Interestingly, even though I managed to settle into a comfortable pace, my heart rate kept climbing. Then, just towards the end of the 20-minute Green Zone, my pacer beeped me, telling me to slow down. If my heart rate hits that limit in 20 minutes, then next Saturday, when the duration gets upped to 35 minutes with a 25-minute Green Zone, I’m going to end up hitting that border more often in the last 5 minutes.

Also, here’s an interesting fact. Today, I covered 5.26 KM at 00:06:52 min/KM. Yesterday, I covered 3.56 KM at 00:07:53 min/KM. So, I covered a longer distance at a shorter pace.

Oh, and if you’re interested, I also had Zombies, Run! running during this run. That run is available here (can’t embed it)

Long Run

Tomorrow is the first Long Run of my Half Marathon training. It’s a simple 30-minute Green Run. I should be able to get around 4 KMs out of this run, but considering my training is by Heart Rate, and not pace, I won’t be running very fast.

The Long Runs are on Saturday (I picked that day for them), and whilst this week’s run is 30 minutes, the Long Run time goes up, until on the last week of training (which will be in July if I can last it), the Long Run is 1h 40mins. I have done a run of 1h 30mins, but it wasn’t non-stop, so it will be interesting to see how well I last, and that’s assuming I can last the distance.

 

Fedora

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I’ve spent the most part of today (writing this at 11:40pm) installing and setting up Fedora on my laptop, moving over from Ubuntu. It’s always a pain setting up a new OS, and even more frustrating copying files to the new OS. I had over 35GB to copy and these were just work files. No movies, music, or games.

 

Setting up BOINC was a headache too. Finally got it working, but it keeps coming up with an error at loading. But it works, and that’s the important thing. On the plus side, I’ve Bitbucketted the setup script I’ve used so if I have to rebuild, it won’t take me as long next time.

Watch “What is a Leap Year?” on YouTube

For a significant part of my childhood and teens, I was under the impression that a leap year was every four years, and found out when I got to college and had a lab exercise to program a leap year calculator, that the “4-year cycle” wasn’t entirely correct. CGP Grey does a great job of explaining this.

George Lam: Wong Fei Hung with pinyin/translation – YouTube

For those of you who like Chinese Martial Arts films.

via George Lam: Wong Fei Hung with pinyin/translation – YouTube.

Somersby Cider – The Somersby Store – YouTube

An Apple parody. Older generations might not get the humour.

via Somersby Cider – The Somersby Store – YouTube.

2-step verification – Accounts Help

Some may not know, but Google supports 2FA (2-Factor Authentication), and this basically means you need two items of information to log into your Google Account. Paypal also has this option.

I only found out about this through LastPass when I was cleaning up some old (and no longer used) accounts. This is worth a look and maybe switching on. But, as with most forms of authentication, you need to balance the convenience and risk (See related articles)

2-step verification – Accounts Help.

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