6:30 to 7am:
Ran to Eglinton avenue and back on the Beltline, approximately 4kms.
I haven’t run for a long time; I have been cycling and there are thigh muscles that seem to be used more in running than in cycling. Some thigh muscles are weak and the achilles I tore playing tennis in mid-April is only 90% healed.
I also did 12 pushups after the run. Feels great; I think I can do this.
My goal is to complete this marathon in 5 hours. I will publish my training log here.
I have done marathons before but that was 25 years ago and I’m 60 now.
We’ve adapted to all the new hi-tech toys of the 21st century, but aren’t so quick to accept scientific evidence that we’re cooking the planet and endangering humanity, says CLIVE DOUCET
By CLIVE DOUCET
Globe & Mail, Monday, May 23, 2005 Page A13Key
Cultural lag is the term first coined by anthropologists to describe the gap between an invention and society’s ability to actually use it. It took about 50 years for the typewriter to displace the pen, and initially women were thought much too feeble to manipulate it. It was a man’s machine.
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May 02, 2005 – 03:01
When encyclopedias changed forever. Twice
By Jim Harris, Backbone Magazine
FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA DEFINED WHAT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA WAS: IT CAME IN 32 VOLUMES, EXCEEDED 30,000 PAGES, WAS UPDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS, WAS SOLD DOOR TO DOOR FOR US$1,599 A SET, AND WEIGHED 128 POUNDS.
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