September 2023 Reads!

Friends, we will get back to the relatable running content you are here for sometime in the very very near future, never you worry. But we are behind on book reviews and that just will not stand.

Like August, September included a few lemons on the reading front, but also some of my favorite books of the year!

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 🪐🔍🗡️The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (pages, 2023). Audiobook. This book reminded me in turns of things I’ve read by Ian M. Banks and Nnedi Okorafor. We open in the wake of the Holy Vallbaran Empire’s failed attempt to conquer the Ominirish Republic. All this means little to Ominirish scribe-cum-tea mistress Enitan until her lover is assassinated and her sibling abducted by Imperial soldiers. She then proceeds to trade on her tea-making skills in an attempt to work her way up through the Vaalbaran capital in order to rescue her sibling and solve her lover’s murder, and soon finds herself at the heart of intergalactic intrigue and scandal. I am very picky about sci fi and this was smart, refreshing, and super well done.

August 2023 Reads!

Hello friends! I am safely back from the Middle East and readjusting to the Pacific time zone and regular life. I was super busy with work and jet lag and got absolutely zero running done, but I got through some books, so there is that.

Speaking of books, we are now up to August in terms of recapping the year's reads. August was a mixed bags in terms of books--a few lemons in there, but also some of my favorite reads of the year!

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(58) 👻😱🧨 The Lost Village by Camilla Sten (348 pages, 2019). Audiobook. Alice has finally secured enough shoestring funding to make her dream film–a documentary about the old Swedish mining town where her grandmother grew up and from which all of the residents had mysteriously vanished in 1959, leaving only two people behind–a newborn baby girl and woman stoned to death. Not long after the tiny crew sets up camp, though, distressing things begin to happen. Are they really alone here? And can they all be trusted? Pretty dark at times, but an interesting, well-written psychological thriller/drama/horror.

One last (kinda) normal(ish) week... (Kaiser Half Week 4 of 13)

Since I'm off to Southern California today and then to Dubai on Friday, this will be my last kind of "normal-ish" week of training for a while. I'm still planning (hoping?) to continue doing whatever following-of-the-training plan I can while I'm on the road, but one just never knows how things are going to work out during travel (particularly to somewhere you've never been before).

Here's how this week went down:

 ~*~*~ 🎡 🎡 Kaiser Permanente Half Week 4 of 13 🎡 🎡 ~*~*~

Grand Total: 36 miles

🐌 Easy: 28.2 miles
🏃🏻‍♀️ Moderate: 3 miles
🐎 Speed: 4.8 miles

⚖️ Easy miles vs. fast/moderate miles: 78% vs. 22%