Few laps around a very small loop of pavement to make it just about 2km.
And, nearly got myself run over by someone who wasn’t looking -_-
Training – 19th August 2019
Training – 18th August 2019
After some early rain, took a run on my 3k loop on the run that I did pretty well on yesterday. Lasted through till near the end then dropped to a walk. My pace suffered, and average pace was 6:03 min/km
Training – 17th August 2019
One lap around the park today. Nice weather, and Strava logs it as 5:46 min/km and “consistent effort”, though I had to drop to a walk to waddle through a puddle of water from the recent rains.
Two Generals
It’s been a long while since I posted anything of interest other than fitness and running, so here’s something I found that isn’t fitness related.
Tom Scott (Twitter: @tomscott) posted this video about the Two Generals problem. Basically it centres around two generals and asks how they can synchronise communication to ensure they two something at the same time.
In multithreading computing, including back when I was learning Java, we had a synchronized keyword which ensure only one thread went through a block of text. But here, you want two threads to proceed at the same time. How do you ensure that? Turns out there’s no guaranteed way.
Even TCP requires a 3-way handshake aka the SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK (https://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/internet/tcp/3-way_handshake.shtml), but if any of those messages drops, the connection never establishes.
Of course you could just use the UDP method of “fire-and-forget” and say “Hey, General B, we’re going to attack at 8pm, catch up if you have to”, and have dropped packets (or casualties in the two generals problem)
This is an interesting thought experiment and one I hadn’t considered during my time learning parallel and threaded programming.
Oh well, you learn something new every day, I guess.
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Training – 13th August 2019
Went on a different route today. Decided to aim for 3km and did it, averaging 5:44 min/km, with my PB on the same route being 5:22 min/km.
First run in a long while that I’m actually pleased with. I broke no records in this run, but no matter.
Training – 11th August 2019
Finally did my 1.5 laps and it was hard.
Surprisingly, Strava logged me as doing one my faster runs, clocking at 5:39 min/km, with my fastest over the same lap is 5:19 min/km
Training – 10th August 2019
Another one lap around the park, dropped to walk several times, disappointing :(
Training – 5th August 2019
Made another one-lap. Picked a running playlist from Spotify to run too. Seemed to help.
First song was Pharrell’s Happy and the last one was Backstreet Boys.
Cheesy and Corny, but definitely runnable.
Training – 4th August 2019
Made another one-lap around the park today. Faster average speed than yesterday. Tomorrow, I’ll try 1.5 laps.
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Training 3rd August 2019
Went running today, made one lap around my local park pretty comfortably, but my left ankle started to hurt. The same ankle I had a fractured metatarsal on a few years back. Here’s hoping it isn’t serious.
A few hours later it’s eased up, since I’m not putting pressure on it.
I wonder if maybe the cushioning on my shoes aren’t up to par now. Maybe I need to gait test again.
Today’s run, since I’m no longer using Endomondo’s training runs, I did the lap using a constant run, average pace was around 6:07 min/km.
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