It’s now the final week before the race in Athens. The training is complete, the squats, the chin-ups, the speed runs, the threshold runs the lunges and on and on. Paradoxically the final week is a waiting game. A resting…
Final run Yesterday, 10 days before the race, I decided that it would be my final run. It was without incident and I clocked in 13.5km at a slow pace. I couldn’t help but think about getting injured or my…
People can tell you what running in 30+ degree celcius heat is like. They can describe it in detail, and give you some tips even, but none of that will help you. Just breath Ever been in a sauna? If…
I read a post recently on this and thought it would be worth reflecting on. Wow, nobody posed that question to me as a teenager when being popular felt so right and so necessary. I wish someone had, because though…
It’s getting closer and closer to race day and after going for a 19km run yesterday while the Krakow half-marathon was happening I was reflecting on my training so far, the goal of running the race and simultaneously getting pumped…
I got this post idea after listening to a review of Oprah Winfrey’s book with the same title. It seems that this simple sentence carries a lot of weight and can even help us as a guide for our future…
it stands to reason that we can all define value differently depending on not just our culture but our status in society and probably age and gender as well. Those are the big ones anyway. So that begs the question - What's yours?
When you’re learning a language and you don’t have a teacher or tutor and you’re attempting this solo, how do you know if you’re making any progress? Well, I’ve been asking myself that question for the past 12 months and…
So I’ve been diving deep into another exercise/workbook and now I am on my third one and the final level. I suppose it is about intermediate level Right now I am on comparative/superlative structures and prepositions. For those unfamiliar with…
This past week I had three evenings of social meetings with Polish friends and neighbors. Three opportunities to practice my Polish speaking skills Numerous individuals Ample time A wide range of topics. What could any language student ask for? (sound…
So it’s been many months since I’ve written an update on my progress and efforts. I can confirm that it wasn’t because I stopped moving forward and pushing to learn Polish. Quite the contrary, I’ve been working at the same…
So I’ve been listening to short podcasts with a tapescript to help. This hasn’t had the magical affects I’d been hoping for. However, it has highlighted a weakness in my Polish that I had ignored for too long, so that’s…
So much damn fun Well, maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement. It’s the nominative case so it’s meant to be the most straightforward. Most of the exercises for A1,A2 and B1 in Polish are becoming familiar with male,female and…
It took me over a month to complete the A1,A2 and B1 sections of the case in my Polish grammar book
It’s been weeks since I started and after about 5 pages of words and expressions learned I am encountering resistance anew! I was feeling the momentum build as I recorded words and practiced them over and over again. But now…