Good run this morning. With a view to warming up for Monday morning’s run, I broke the two miles into three roughly 2/3 mile segments, with brief walking intervals; I want to keep limber and to keep a good pace for my running intervals, but not to risk too hard a push on any run. I am confident that I can dial up the intensity Monday morning, so I’ve been trying to optimise the non-pushing baseline. We’ll see how that works out. Since I know nearly nothing about athletics and kinesiology, the odds on being generally correct and on being catastrophically wrong are about even.
Yesterday’s conference — the morning half that I attended — was fine. While I was in Oxford, Margaret handed the ladies over for grooming. We’ll try to get a good ‘after’ photo today, so that we can post the contrasting images for the Small Dog Appreciation Society.
We started watching the Jon Hamm vehicle Your Friends & Neighbours, but turned it off after two episodes; it seemed to unselfconsciously smug about the wealthy lifestyle the characters take for granted, and Jon Hamm’s character gave us no trace of a reason to sympathise with him. No, that’s wrong; he’s kind to his sister, and they seem to have come out of a very emotionally-cold parental household. Still, the ‘only the wealthy matter’ worldview that expects us to sympathise with a man who has to subsist on sums that boggle our imagination just wore on us as we watched. Too much shocking presumption, not enough humane core.