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I set out this morning to take a long walk, and ended up on impulse walking ten miles in increasingly oppressive weather on the River Drive Loop. There are several water fountains along the way, and I found a portable toilet that had just been cleaned, but by the last three miles or so I was sort of lightheaded and wobbly. When I was in my twenties, I used to run ten miles once a week or so (well, it wasn't really running, more a sort of sedate trot) but I haven't gone that far in a long time. ...

I spent a week in London walking what felt like ten miles a day sightseeing (no joke; if I was walking 2 1/2 miles an hour for four hours, that was an underestimation), to the point where my hips hurt, but I wasn't working out otherwise. I was eating fairly randomly, but didn't gain any weight to speak of. So after a day off yesterday, I drove back up to Tomasz Stusinski's fencing practice. I screwed up driving, getting off at the wrong exit and backtracking, so I didn't get there in time for ...

i drove up to Tomasz Stusinski's club in New Jersey today - it's nearly two hours away, but I figured I'm on vacation and I might as well. It met in a little church on a narrow back road in a charming area full of trees and foliage. There were eight or nine people there - Tony Alvarez, the guy from Carlisle who at one point was practicing at our club, was there (he was taking a lesson from Tomasz when I arrived). Laura Decker was there too, by chance! Various other people, including a very capable ...

I've joined both Spotify and Google+, so I've wasted considerable time in the last day or so. I paid for membership to Spotify so that I can put my music on my phone, and I also synced my iPod Shuffle to Spotify (apparently it takes all your iTunes content out and replaces it with your Spotify content, which in my case is mostly also my iTunes content).

In between playing with a music service and a social networking platform, I also obsessively entered dates into my teaching planbook ...

It wasn't very busy at fencing - Tom, Ella, Will and me for sabre, three guys for foil. Mark is home from the hospital and rehab with his new hip, and will be somewhat out of commission for a while.

I fenced everyone and beat everyone because I still had plenty of left-over intensity from the weekend. My legs continue to get stronger, and a number of times I just ran people down, including Will. Ella is looking very strong and I decided to fence her flat-out. In fact, I should ...