slippery slope

forget expensive extreme sports. you can get the adrenaline rush by running on icy streets on a dark hour. oh the feeling of danger when you don't know if your next step will hold or not! talking about living on the edge.


joking aside, it does improve one's reaction speed when you realize mid-step that there is no friction under your foot.  


but it is rather annoying as well. 


i didn't fall on my ass this morning but it would appear that if i intend to keep it like that, i have to switch to the treadmill -- at least until the temperature either rises above zero again or it snows so that that sneaky black ice is properly covered.


sigh. 

snow piece

think that snow is falling. think that snow is falling
everywhere all the time. when you talk with a person, think
that snow is falling between you and on the person.
stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow.

Yoko Ono, 1963

elusion

lately he had noticed that the concept of time, or rather, his comprehension of it, seemed to evade him. moments that he had previously passed unnoticed now seemed to drag on forever -- standing in the street lights listening to the steady beeps signalling of the red light would last forever; just like the evenings with his wife would pass in a single heartbeat and in the next morning he had to struggle to remember what they had talked about and whether they had made love.

you get what you need

i woke up today at quarter past five and arrived to the office at quarter past nine. in between i did a 1,5 hr ashtanga practice and ran 10 km; it is genuinely very difficult for me to think of a better start for a day. granted,  i wouldn't mind sleeping a bit longer and running outside instead of on a treadmill would obviously be a preference, but hey -- you can't have everything.

2012

december 2011: 277,5km


happy new year.