Did my tuesday hard run 2 miles in 14:44. 20 seconds faster than last week though felt very sluggish. Also think the steep downhill off bell is bad for my right knee. Won't do it in the future. Today put the treadmill on 0% incline and did 3 miles in 30:40 at maffetone. Then 4% incline and went 12.7/13.0 for almost 30 minutes. Finished with 20 minutes on ellipitical at 9 resistance level and about 41 RPMs. Felt really good afterward. Could have gone twice as long easily, if I had that kind of time.

Adopted brother left today. Was good to see him. Very good guy. So easygoing. Loves to cook and really cooked some good food. Cooked green beans, carrots, leeks and jalapenos from my garden. I never knew green beans that were still a little crunchy could taste so good. Met his 11 and 8 year old son. They both also seemed quite good as was his wife. Nothing amazing but all quite nice.

In a way I feel like brother is too good for this world. It's almost as if we have something in common despite being unrelated and really quite different in most respects.

3 weeks of maffetone and 14 minute miles are down to 11 or so. At a 2 percent incline with a fan at my back (so it's not quite such a pool of sweat but enough for the HR monitor to work). Did 3 miles in 34:40 today... But HR jumps up with any additional incline. Hope to get under 10 minute miles and then maybe increase incline...

Also doing the elliptical. Resistance of 9, RPM's around 40, (38 to 42). Started at resistance of 7. Guess I feel good. Last tuesday ran two miles in 15:05 hard. about 85 seconds off PB.

Easy run is maffetone heart rate, wearing heart rate monitor, generally on treadmill. Try to do same with easy pushups. Both in front of TV. Will see how that works. Potentially do same with pulldowns but I expect it won't work or at least I won't have the patience. This is a sort of polarization routine but with just one hard run each week instead of two... So far no insomnia with the little bit of strength training, except for the first two days. For which advil cured it.

I'm thinking I don't really care much for Bach. Didn't know he was really unpopular long ago. Think I feel how others did back then. Wonder how much of his popularity is emperor's new clothes. Think something has definitely gone wrong with classical music, all the pomp, the having to be absolutely quiet, the dress. There must certainly be some pretentiousness going on. But people learn to truly love the emperor's and probably all the pomp too. Some people anyway. So many just end up not really liking classical when they otherwise would.