The end of a rest week

I just completed a "rest week" with 41 km of running (and 100 km of biking, but that's been pretty standard). I also decided to go back to bodyweight strength training with pushups, situps, and squats on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I've lost the capacity to do 100 pushups in a row, but I can build back up to it. This coming week, I'll up my running mileage to 60 km, then 66 the week after that, and then the first full week in April will be 72 kilometers; that brings a half marathon within the "30% of the week's mileage" mark. At some point, I'm going to have to find better routes; the main route I'm currently using for 10 to 11 km runs is getting somewhat repetitive. That being said, I'm very much enjoying not bringing my phone along, and I'd rather not get lost. I believe my watch has some kind of "back to start" feature, so I'm going to look into that.

My nukadoko bed is coming along well. I've changed the chili peppers and garlic a couple times so far, and the smell is tangy and sharp, as it should be. This last Thursday, a co-worker was kind enough to bring me a flake of hay; I put the three soybean blocks into a box with some of the hay, and now the box is sitting near one of the heaters at home so the blocks can ferment for a couple weeks before being hung for one last drying cycle and then added to the rest of the ingredients for soy sauce.

I've been looking for a camera to put on my bicycle. I didn't imagine my list of requirements was a particularly tall order; decent image quality, decent performance in low light, waterproof (or available with a waterproof case), and a battery life of at least 4 hours. That last one killed quite a few candidates, and really all I had found until recently was the cycliq products. They added some interesting features, like video looping and crash detection (in addition to also being lights), but boy did they have bad reviews. Today, I found the company "Drift", and their XL camera seems pretty good. It has all the aforementioned features (except that it's not a bike light, but I already have those), but with a battery life of NINE hours.

Also, for my own reference, the food company "Peak Refuel" looks interesting. Their backpacking meals may just be a perfect present for Eric.