Anyway, whatever works for anyone, it all evens up at the end of the day, specially with timezone differences !
That's it, live and let live! As long as everyone is happily reckoning their runs, who cares, right?
Wow Sid, you're really invested in this. You realize, of course, that just like punctuation and spelling rules, these things come from humans, not god, and are just conventions, right? Are you really willing to throw away thousands of years of glorious Judeo-Christian tradition--the pageantry, glamour (<US spelling convention violation), hypocrisy and slaughter (<US punctuation convention violation)--in favor of nerdy Swiss profiteers?
Here again is a quote from that impeccable source, Wikipedia:
"Criticism
With the exception of a small number of isolated standards,
[18] ISO standards are normally not available free of charge, but for a purchase fee,
[31] which has been seen by some as too expensive for small
open source projects.
[32]
The
ISO/IEC JTC1 fast-track procedures ("Fast-track" as used by
OOXML and "PAS" as used by
OpenDocument) have garnered criticism in relation to the
standardization of Office Open XML (ISO/IEC 29500). Martin Bryan, outgoing Convenor of
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 WG1, is quoted as saying:
I would recommend my successor that it is perhaps time to pass WG1’s outstanding standards over to OASIS, where they can get approval in less than a year and then do a PAS submission to ISO, which will get a lot more attention and be approved much faster than standards currently can be within WG1.
The disparity of rules for PAS, Fast-Track and ISO committee generated standards is fast
making ISO a laughing stock in IT circles. The days of open standards development are fast disappearing. Instead we are getting 'standardization by corporation'.
[33]
Computer security entrepreneur and
Ubuntu investor,
Mark Shuttleworth, commented on the
Standardization of Office Open XML process by saying "I think it de-values the confidence people have in the standards setting process," and Shuttleworth alleged that ISO did not carry out its responsibility. He also noted that
Microsoft had intensely lobbied many countries that traditionally had not participated in ISO and stacked technical committees with Microsoft employees, solution providers and resellers sympathetic to Office Open XML.
When you have a process built on trust and when that trust is abused, ISO should halt the process...
ISO is an engineering old boys club and these things are boring so you have to have a lot of passion … then suddenly you have an investment of a lot of money and lobbying and you get artificial results. The process is not set up to deal with intensive corporate
lobbying and so you end up with something being a standard that is not clear.
[34]"
Yah, that's the way I write dates. It orders my docs nicely. For example, "Sid's calendar rant post.14.03.17" would come after "Sid's calendar rant post.13.10.06."
Now that I know how much the Sunday/Monday thing gets you going, I think I'll make sure to post all my Sunday activities, and thus start a new week's thread, as soon as possible. This, despite the fact that I had recently resolved to just post at the end of the week, with a weekly summary of running/st/plyo.
Oh, yeah, so back to mileage, er, I mean kilometrage. Yesterday afternoon, I ran another 5k, 3.1 miles, at 25F/-4C, 21F/-6C windchill, then I made up the Cables ST--pulldowns, chin-ups, seated rows--that I missed last Friday. I think I like the cables workout best of all because there's almost no technique involved.
This morning, one-mile run-commute, at 22F/-5.5C, 5F/-15C windchill. Now that I'm back to bare full-time, I'm having trouble establishing my early morning runs. With today's windchill, and just a touch of snowy frosting, one mile was about all I was good for, although with more resolve I could've gone further. It's just easier to wait until the afternoon and sunshine. But then it's harder to get into my ST in the afternoon right after a longer run. What to do? Life is full of tough decisions.
My running watch had a flat battery, so I had to go naked, so to speak. Kinda fun to amble along without knowing anything about your pace and just run for a change.
I've been running numerically naked for a while now, and really like it. But I don't race or anything. The only use I have for my Garmin now is for keeping track of distance, but I've kind of gone back to Google Maps for that. Plus, after a lot of exploration last year, most of my route distances are now known to me. I mostly need it on my back-n-forths and loops up in the fairgrounds. Maybe when it gets a little bit warmer I'll start pushing the pace again and put on the Garmin in hopes of some manifest progress. But I think if I fail to get much faster this year, I'll just give up on the idea altogether.