Building volume

Running through the ice-cold morning, I was able to complete Strava’s "Running Endurance Challenge" for the third month in a row. In fact, I am currently 36 km ahead of pace as to my goal of running 10k per day this year. As previously noted, there is very little luck in running and, as such, building volume remains the key thing one can do to improve race performance, all assuming one gets sufficient recovery. 

Beyond running, today has mostly been about department kitchen duty and the construction of new exam questions for those who failed the first time now in mid-March. Meanwhile, reading the news about Russia and how the circle around Putin is preparing for a “forever war”, it is becoming increasingly clear that Putin cannot back down given the endemic corruption of his regime and its imperial obsessions. What is even more frightening is that perpetual war may in fact be quite useful for the pursuit of Putin's hypermasculine vision of social purity and global isolation.