I feel good! Yesterday's workout was FANTASTIC. After taking Sunday off, I had a full battery of pent-up energy. I didn't even feel the runs in my HIIT. Later, as I oscillated in another set of HIITs between bag work and situps on the exercise ball, I didn't even notice the time to downshift and just kept cranking them out one after another.

I didn't even intend to train at a higher rate that morning as I wanted to slide into a low-intensity approach as I'm adopting 80/20, but, when you've got the green light, you gotta go! Shake 'n' bake!

There may be something to this keto approach after all, the diet that our bodies are designed to eat. Fun fact: our brains have shrunk since our move to agriculture. But, hey, without that move, would we have today's globalization? So, we're all likely dumber for it and have worse teeth, but, there's more of us? Win?

We'll just file that under Things I Gotta Fix When I Find My DeLorean Keys. Tell ya what, that first farmer is gonna FREAK when I chase him around the field at 88 mph!

Sunday was a cooldown day for me from physical activity. I continue to explore applications where to move slow, I go fast; it's not so much the tortoise vs the hare negligence scenario, but, it's more akin to how maintaining a high level is not sustainable and leads to poor results whether from body response or burnout.

I didn't drop everything: I maintained my meditation practice, finished another audiobook, and had all sorts of data entry into Goodreads with the intent of saving future time. Admittedly, converting 2 tables to markdown and re-uploading everyday had been building into a tedious exercise. Goodreads doesn't exactly lend itself to bulk entry with finished reading dates. I went so far as to change each title from its default hardcover to audiobook entry. And while I would prefer the accuracy, the cover art style is ugly. So, I shouldered the work in reverse to fix 30 books. But at the time of this riding, I've got 98 read entries and another 26 queued up.

This week, I'll be applying the Pareto principle, an approach I was reminded after reading Fitzgerald's 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower. Basically, I'm looking to approach low-intensity training on most days, reserving one day when I push the pedal towards the floor.

On the nutrition front, I'm considering in trading out my multivitamin for increased spinach and broccoli, though admittedly, I bristle at going beyond my 30 total carb target...and I GOTTA have my cacao!

It's getting late, we'll get away.
We'll fade away, we'll run away from here.
And I don't mind to talk it down,
And stay away from the clouds.

—Kalax, Let Go

Yesterday, it was another two-book day for me—translate that as "busy" as rare do I only consume audiobooks. Typically, it's a litany of things, all lined up for me to knock 'em down with the spoken word rabbiting along at 3X speeds.

In Expeditions past, I'd use my workouts as I place to watch movies, like that cache I bought from a closing video rental place, or, I'd use the space to watch so many UFC contests. And how I still like MMA and its inherent tendency for fortune reversal!

But, these days are something different. For whatever reason, these days I possess a greater capacity for cognitive consumption—maybe it's always been there, an untapped potential that spans back from days bygone.

During this morning's meditation, I realized that I had been suffering this year with all the mayhem, irrationality, and destruction of this world—that on some level, I had internalized it. Back on July 14th, I wrote how I had seemingly injured my temporomandibular joint, and even today, there remains a tender place. The thing is, it's something that is caused by stress, specifically clinching my jaws as I sleep. Why have I been doing this? At 22, maybe there might be a reason in context of my Fall 2000 and all the self-destruction thereof, but, at 42?

During my meditation, it came to me that it is a good thing that I've chosen to sign off from the news & social media of the world. But, instead of having a info vacuum in my life, I continue to pour content into the nexus of my soul.

When it comes to all of these medias, how much of it has anything to do with my practicing my breath? How much has anything to do with my availability of books? No, as Paul Simon wrote:

I get the news I need on the weather report.
I can gather all the news I need on the weather report.
Hey, I've got nothing to do today, but, smile.
Da-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da and here I am.
The only living boy in New York.