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A Brand New Start
Up and out of bed at 8:40 am. That hasn’t happened in a while now. At least for a month if I recall correctly. I’ve been dealing with exams at college and as usual I went into a free-run sleeping regime. It basically means that I slept when I was feeling sleepy and studied while at full capacity.
As every year at the end of September I can finally create a daily routine for myself. A bit of consistency in my daily life. Getting my sleep in check is of course the first thing. Hence today’s early wake-up time. But this year is a bit different. I have 2 exams left and after that the diploma. This means that right now I don’t have any obligations and I can finally concentrate on myself and my projects.
I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time now and a have quite a few things I want to concentrate on:
- Physical  fitness – If you remember I took up jogging during the summer, but had to stop as I was unable to learn because I was too tired. Well I’ll be taking jogging up again. I start next week and will report back. I think I got a few good ideas I want to test out.
- Social life – This past month has been a disaster in this area. Mostly I’ve been at home studying and the urge to go out and just hang with my friends has built up inside of me. So that’s what I’ll do
- Projects – Small web projects to be exact. As the college era of my life is coming to an end I have to build up my business. To do this I’ll be starting with a few small projects I’ve been thinking about for a while now. I’ve already started on one, but ran into a problem with my hosting. I’ve been dealing with support over at Arvixe. They seem to be a good ASP.NET 4 hosting provider, but Visual Web Developer 2010 Web Deploy was messing up my permissions. Well this morning we’ve finally sorted things out which means I can start with the coding part
- The rest of college – As I said I’ve got 2 exams and the diploma left. This are still my top priority, but for at least a few weeks I can’t do anything about it.
- Job – I’m also thinking about getting job. I need money to be able to stay in Ljubljana. And of course I want to reach total financial independence from my parents. It would also be good to get out of the apartment for a few hours each day. I don’t want a very engaging job on the other hand. A regular 8 hour work day would be nice, so that when I get home I can focus on my projects and building up my business.
Well this may seem like a lot, but if I organize myself I should have more then enough time to fit it all in. I think
Busy Times
These past 2 weeks I’ve been drowning in work. As I said in the beginning of July I’m doing The Challenge 2010. It’s going OK for now. I’m a bit behind though. I’ll be writing more about this in future posts.
I’ve also had an exam to deal with. And I still have a few of those left. 4 to be exact. According to my calendar I should be done with them a day or two before my birthday, 24th of September. I really hope it goes according to my plans and I pass all of them as they are starting to affect my future plans way too much. The problem is in not being able to get a routine in my daily life. I function way better when I have one and am a lot more productive as well. Help out and wish me luck
I’ve also stopped jogging as it used up too much of my energy and I couldn’t study. I haven’t given up though. I’ll be taking it back up as soon as I’m done with school stuff. I actually miss jogging and I feel it in my legs. They get very jittery from time to time and I can hardly sit still when that happens.
As you can see school has (again) taken over my life and I really just want to be over with it. The last thing it’s been messing with is my writing. As you can see this is my first post in 2 weeks. And it’s not for the lack of ideas. I have about 4 draft post on my posts list. I make those so I don’t forget any good ideas I get. And I’ll have to make a few more for the ones that are still in my head.
I’ll probably take the next few hours for writing and hopefully I’ll pump out some good content. I’ll post these over the next few weeks. So stay tuned.
Jogging, Week 2
In week 2 of my jogging I decided to jog around 8 PM. I wanted to see what time better suits me. I’ll do a post on this some time in the future as I have to do some more testing. I already wrote about Monday in my Jogging, Week 1 post so here’s how the other days went.
Tuesday
Tuesday was hard. I pushed myself on Monday to complete my goal of jogging a full lap and even though I didn’t achieve it I burnt a lot more energy and my calf muscles were really soar. I had to take 3 pauses during my jog and it took me about 22 minutes to complete the lap. I wasn’t really happy about that. I also went jogging at 10 PM, because it was raining before. It was almost pitch black. There was a glow from the city that illuminated the path just enough for me to see the puddles from the rain earlier. Well at least most of them. Good thing it’s summer and it’s not cold outside or my feet would have frozen solid.
Wednesday
This was the day when it finally happened. I did it! I completed the whole lap, the whole 3.16 kilometers of it I was extremely happy when I got home. But also very exhausted. Physically I should have given up way back, but I just kept going and going. It was a mental win. I took me 16 minutes to do it. It’s not my best on this lap but I don’t care.
Thursday and Friday
On Wednesday I overdid myself again. My calves were killing me and I had low energy. On both days I had to take 3 pauses. The times were OK, but I wasn’t happy with my performance.
Saturday and Sunday
I took Saturday off. Well off from jogging at least. I had to mow the lawn in my backyard. It wouldn’t be such a big deal if there wasn’t a slope in the back part that leads to a stream. That slope takes quite a lot out of a person. Mind you we don’t have a self-propelled lawn mower. It was all me. It just spun the blades around.
Sunday was a day off as well except this time I didn’t do any other physical activities. It was a rest day. A day to think.
Next week and new goals
As I achieved my goal on Wednesday I had to come up with something new to jog to 
. Next logical step would probably be to try and get at least 2 whole laps in the same week and then build on that number until I can jog the whole lap each day of the week. I’ll be going back to Ljubljana soon though as my exams are getting closer. I have to find a similarly long lap there. It probably won’t be a perfect match but I’ll do my best. Oh, and I’m switching back to jogging after I wake up.
Jogging, Week 1
Yesterday was the 8th day since I started jogging. I started on Monday, the 26th of July, with lap that somewhat encircles my home village and is 4.65 kilometers in length. That’s 2.89 miles for you imperial readers. I’ve made a map of the route on MapMyRun and named it Lendava GG2. From Tuesday through Saturday continued with a lap that’s a bit smaller – Lendava GG1.
I said to myself that I wouldn’t stop moving the entire length of the lap. I was either going to jog or walk. The walking parts are a kind of pauses between jogging sessions.
The week started without any goals. Every day after waking up I went at it. Usually I started around 12pm as I’m a late sleeper. I just wanted to see where my stamina is at. It turned out I wasn’t in such a bad jogging shape. I ran about a third of the Lendava GG1 before taking my first pause on Tuesday. I took a total of 3 pauses that day. As the days went by I could jog a bit further every day and I managed to eliminate one pause before the week ended. I took Sunday off. A bit of time for my muscles to regenerate.
During last week an internal goal started to emerge as I learned how much my body is capable. I wanted to jog the entire length of Lendava GG1 yesterday without pauses. I seemed quite an achievable goal. But I couldn’t do it. I managed 2/3 of the lap before taking a break. This was the only break I took though. And I managed to cut my fastest time from 19 to 14 minutes. Which is great. I would probably have done it if my sleep wasn’t cut short.
All in all I’m quite happy with the result and I’d like to achieve the mentioned goal during this week. Also this week I’m jogging in the evening. Around 8pm. I want to test out different time periods. I’ll report back about my performance next week.
Do you jog? Let me know how you do it in the comments below.
