So after my run last Tuesday my legs hurt so bad I couldn’t walk, stand, sit, lay down or anything else. They just ached painfully for a half an hour.

I’ve set up an appointment to see a doctor and am now not running until I get the go ahead from a trained physician.

In other news depressing things are happening. The shining beacon of hope decided politics as normal will be just transformative enough, commenting on the following.

Also the FISA thing makes me want to immigrate back to Lithuania. With the Euro scaling with gold and oil immigration looks like the safe bet anyway.

Also the Future is now, cancer cure in a pill? Well it looks like we might be marching towards some kind of techno-futurist-singularity/utopia it just wont be in the US first apparently.

Ugh,

I ran 4 miles this afternoon and instead of hitting the lap button hit the stop button and lost the run back.

I may not be happy about it but life goes on.

My shins felt great! My legs and ankles hurt a bit but much better than last time, I should have switched out my shoes earlier. After the weekend I might try a really short run on Tuesday to see if I’m ready for a 4-5 day run week again.

It is sunny and warm here and I am sweating like a pig.

It was a light-headed run. Less coffee more water is just what the Doctor ordered.

50 Degrees and raining in Juneau today. In June.

Another beautiful day for a 4 Mile run.

It is no longer Monday, something we should all be thankful for.

I had a busy and exciting week, I caught the worlds smallest halibut, and bought new shoes.

Previously my shins had hurt enough I decided to take the week off and finally change out my shoes like I’d been threating to do for some time. My new shoes are new-fangled and they feel a little weird. They’ve got some kind of ultra dense cushion, which is the opposite of the shoes I’ve purchased in the past. So they dont feel like they protect my feet from shock, but when I’m running they seem to do all right. I had some shin splints during my run yesterday, by garden variety-it-sucks-to-get-old sort of things going on not the unable to walk up the stairs home sort I’d had before.

Like my mix of punctuation above?

Also I’ve been ruminating quite a bit on old philosophical quandaries.

It is sunny here.

I once got into a rather lengthy argument  with one of my very clever philosophy professors about Savant like abilities. If some person of superior talent and ability simply has the answer to any given math problem or question pop into their head, but cannot tell you how or why they can reach the answer, can they be said to “Know” the answer?

Usually knowledge is (or at least conventionally in philosophical circles) is said to be justified true belief.

And in the above Savant problem there doesnt appear to be any justification (other than, well my guess has always been right before) in a mathematical sense. Math being a branch of reasoning which is thought to require some kind of proof or explanation.

My professor offhandedly kind of dismissed my argument saying that instead the Savant like ability does substitute for justification. In effect saying that “By virtue of a faculty” is enough to satisfy the justification part of the knowledge value.

Well perhaps, I’m still not sold on the whole thing but lets not worry to much about my objections and instead take this notion that “By virtue of a Savant faculty” does represent justification.

What of the whole trans/post-human mess.

Math-co-processors chipped into our heads, or more realistically calculators, access to wikiapedia, libraries and online social nets.

If the network IS the computer, is the Internet my Savant like ability to know practically everything?

Another Monday another run.

Todays run was artless and without any skill.

I did about the same paces as last Fridays 4 Miles run, but for a much shorter distance 2.7 Miles.

I spent most of the run Day dreaming and never felt “in-to” the run, but such is life. Perhaps next I’ll try to jam my run log into a spreadsheet or some kind of data-set-graph thing.

Contemplate this Picture and find peace.

Well a little bit anyway. Yesterday I tried the 4 mile run again and took just over 3 minutes off of my previous time. My shins really need the rest.

Today, birthday party for my friendly neighbor.

Often come with the best of intentions.

For instance:

There I was thinking that if I added hill sprints in between my run days I’d be able to run more without having to worry about shin splints causing me to cry like a little boy.

I was sorely mistaken.

I did the first 4 Mile run of my get into Klondike relay shape and my shins practically leaped off my legs to strangle me to death. It was crazy painful.

Every other day it is.

Which is to say that mine was not particularly long.

It was short I worked Sunday early morning and Afternoon after being kind of screwed by the workings of the evil IT administrators.

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