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🗓️Weekly Rundown🗓️
Squeaks with gang since Navy Doug is back for a short time
Long run on Friday to make sure I'm available for Sunday's 31 mile ruck
Ms. Campbell joined for the first 5 but it was 18 miles on the same road out and back #MentalSharpener
Nothing was sore the next day - not the muscles, not even the knees - thank goodness because there's a full day of catching Pokemon ahead
You would think it was the summer of 2016: Pokemon Go with TinyRowles - caught so many gibbles and even shiny ones
Sushi and watching the Buckeyes fumble the bag with the Campbell clan
31 Mile Ruck - fun way to spend 13 hours with Navy Doug
Walked from Pickerington to Reynoldsburg to Groveport through the canal, back to Pickerington with the run club gang
Only damage sustained from that ruck was chafing and blisters on my feet - legs are clearly well adapted from marathon training to be able to tank 50 miles this weekend
Expect lower miles next week as a cruel blow to the bottom of my foot with a tragically placed blister
Can the blister heal by Friday and I get a 30 ball in 3 days of running? A fast 6, easy 5, and a 19 mile long run?
Back to solo mowing and I'm hype
The mosquitoes are elite level rage bait
Due to checks and balances, the CEO can't make a role and put me in it - it has to go through the COO and be a posted position - there is now a posted position and I have to now navigate the corporate machine for this and it's about as frustrating as mosquitoes
Finished Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Not great but I'm 2/3 done and I was planning on not reading the last but the ending had a strong hook to start the 3rd, but low hopes for the last book
Won every fantasy football game this week #beast
I am competitive but it seems there is a clearly dominant team that isn't me in every league I'm in - hopefully I can get lucky and land a chip
Ran 23 miles - 18 from the long run and 31 weighted walking miles from the ruck - to see it on STRAVA CLICK HERE
WBOTW: Navy Doug: he was the reason the gang got together for Squeaks and a ruck
🦬High Low Buffalo🦬
High:
Rucking with gang
Low:
Blister on the bottom of the ball of my foot and burn on the back of my hand are very inconvenient
Buffalo:
2 years ago today a Snap memory popped up: it was 11:45 and I still needed 100g of protein on the day and 1000 calories…it was solved in 5 minutes by drinking 20 egg whites flavored with chocolate syrup and chased by 2 packs of Ramen noodles - I was impressed with my commitment to my goal but it wasn’t a fun watch
🧠Something New I Learned🧠
AI CEOs all agree there needs to be an AI slowdown so regulation and safety can catch up, but Trump and Xi both said no - full steam ahead
It seems AI is now making its own AI models and it seems like it's becoming hard for us to control - going to conduct more research and watch movies like Termantor and The Matrix to see what will happen next
There are different kinds of hard - for example, just because someone can run a marathon doesn't mean they can have a hard conversation
There is always someone with it worse than you and really most problems aren't a problem
🎵Song of the Week🎵
Gimme That Girl by Joe Nichols
Honorable Mentions:
Little Bit Off by Five Finger Death Punch
Hippies & Cowboys by Cody Jinks
Must Be The Whiskey by Cody Jinks
Till next time,
VB
Glossary
Squeaks: Bar with good wings
Fumble the bag: choke and blow it
Ruck: walking with a heavy backpack very far - common in the military
Rage bait: something that is trying to make you mad
CEO/COO: high-up people in a business