A hard days work

Tomorrow I try to be earlier to write, because I had something beautiful on the screen when the sytem failed posting it.

Goodnight,
Jan

Never return

Running isn't easy when you start. It's hard to take the first step.
The American James Fix said that only the first step counts. The rest will follow.
Today I had the first training of my 12-weeks scedule which hopefully leads me to run 1 hour continiously. (last Saturday I just tried my shoes)
Today I started with 40 minutes run, divided in blocks of 20, 10 and 10 minutes. Between the blocks I walked 1 minute.
I did it, I made it and now I can hardly walk 5 meters.
This week I got at least 2 more runs. (my heartbeat was 118 bpm immediately after the run. It's a hard life in the mountains.)

Now several questions and facts raise in my mind.
- Do I have also such a heartbeat on my bike?
- Is running healthy?
- How did I run 42.195 kilometer in 1995?
- 10 Years ago I had a heartbeat just after running of 80 bpm.

My conclusion of today
- Biking isn't an extreme sport.
- My running-condition isn't very good.
- 10 years ago I used my time well.
- the last 10 years are are fysically not my best years.
- I can change direction of my life but I won't return.

Saturday

This weekend got to buy runningshoes and a "spoiler" for my bike.
I bought my runningshoes and they fit immediately, the mudspoiler is for a next time, Santa Claus or Christmas.

I didn't run for a year now and when I ran in those days it was on my old shoes from the mid nineties. I had Saucony Shadow (I believe the number was 6000). Now I bought Saucony again however a different lighter type, ic Trigon 2. I hope/think the price (120 Euro) is worth it.
At 17.00 I did some running through the city, after only 30 minutes I felt my muscles, those I never use with cycling.

Hopefully the injury in my left knee stays away for a while so the knee can grow stronger.

Something else, when I was browsing I came on the Douwe Egberts site with a typical Dutch habit, saving points when buying coffee of the Dutch brand. It still exists, spaarpunten, it's like airmiles when you travel by air. Only one has to save the points from the coffee package.

Weekend again

I have been the family weatherman and now I'm living through these weeks again, again and again. Yes it's groundhogDay.

Outside maximum temperatures were on the 23rd just below freezingpoint. It was a foggy day. Cause there was no wind, temperatures didn't rise. But the day after the sun was back though it cold wasn't gone. Today temp have rissen till 8 degrees C. I'll be cycling tomorrow.

What's happening?

What's happening where? At home? In the Oekraine? In Iraq?
I don't know. Sometimes the best thing one can do is turn off radio, television and internet, read mo papers and magazines, don't speak with people and prevent hearing conversations of others.
To prevent knowing something one could get himself locked up in a prisoncell.

This is what happens to the killer of Van Gogh and the other terrorists who were arrested. Okay, bully them guards!

Wednesday

Woke up, went to work, came home, brought my cycle to the store for a first service, cooked, watched PSV reaching the 2nd round Championsleague and went to bed.

troubles, quarrels, fights

The last 5 years are relatively quiet in my personal surroundings.
There was nothing to bother about in the last 6 months. Really nothing. (?)
Of course there was. I left my mothers birthday party 6 months ago and since then I'm not on speaking terms with my brother anymore. The relationship with my mother has weakened. This all has to do with money my father owes my mother due to their divorce 25 years ago.
After going up and down again I left my father too. He met a woman with whom he started a bed & breakfast, a kind of hotel and a cafe for some years. And in July time came to repay the dept. He had to sell all on legal santion.

To tell it the short way, my mother is a millionaire, my father a clochard.
I hate it in some ways and that's what the argument is about.

911 hours, 911 days, rufen sie neun eins eins an!!

In the Netherlands we're working too much, aren't we?.
According to the Minister of Economic Affairs the workload isn't enough. We only work an average of 911 hours a year per employee! (It's funny that figure.
Notice, there are also 911 days between the murder on Pim Fortuyn (May 6 2002) and Theo van Gogh (November 2 2004).
There are many parttimers and 460,000 unemployed people. If this is a sign of the state of our country, I say Minister do something!

But for individuals the solution can't be to work longer because there is no extra work. With my 36 hours a week I've a full time job. Every extra hour may be wasted. (In a normal year I make 1692 hours.)
The average figure (911) can be increased by creating work or reducing the number of people who live in the Netherlands.

After the assault on Theo van Gogh many people want to flee the country. This is the solution of the problem of the Minister.
I think that his public servants should do some research again. Then our Minister can make his comments on a basis of new figures.

I don't mind who is leaving but I'll be relieved if a lot will go away. Maybe 8 million people is enough. 50% Can leave this small enclave at the northsea.
I'm thinking about emigrating too, not in the near future though. When I'm 60 or so, plenty of time.

New blog and running shoes

Well, I created myself a new blog. It can be found on achternamiddag, which means late in the afternoon. The site is in Dutch and I won't write as often as on Jansblog. I still will improve my English.

This morning was very cold. the first time this autumn we had some ripe on the roofs.
A colleague of mine is 1,500 Kilometers north to visit her grandmother in Sweden. I heard it is snowy out there with temp about 0 degrees celsius.

I 'm off to buy some running shoes to try it again after years of not running. My colleague mand the site of Oliver invites me to get running again. Mind that my first marathon was 3.53 hours.

Heating?

Saturday, it's dark already, the evening has fallen. It's a cozy at home. The central heater does it's work. The flames light up every now and then when the heater is triggered. It's much more cozy than the central heating were used to. What's in my house is old fashion.
But
But it's cold outside and the hail, snow and rainshowers make it uncomfortable to transport oneself on a bike through the city. Coming home, soaked or cold to the bones makes the heater very usefull.

I wonder what you all use, coales, briquetes, gaz, oil or even wood?

Not at home

I only know by now that I can use blogger at other places to blog my thoughts. At work?

Maybe at lunchtime. I have to create one blog in Dutch so OI can write quicker and express my thoughts easier.

But it's an experience to write in English.

A quote from the blogosphere

"
Hello soldier of God,

Ain't it good to go home, instead staying alive in Iraq?
In the US and elsewhere in the world you are needed, really needed. In the Iraqi turmoil you are the sitting duck which creates the terrorists (beyond the imported terrorism).

No, you can better go home and prevent abortion, prevent killing the unborn child. Wake up and kill the useless doctors, the abortionists. Become a radical christian, instead of being a wise guy in a place where you don't belong. Use the bible as your weapon and kill ritually with your own hands.

Yeah, you want more killings of the unrighteous in the streets, unchristian people, with a different believe or no believe at all.
Pray that it won't be you who is going to die because there is so much to accomplish for your dear god. Praise the orthodoxy.
Keep on worshipping, the last days might be upon you.

Proboscis monkey
"

Surprizes?

The week is full of surprizes. Name one? Uhhh?
Well, for instance Hnk has a sister who has a blog too. Remember they are only 15 and 16 years old.
My sadness of yesterday was no real surprize if one considers this blog as a job too. But a night sleep and doing some other work also helped. Though the underlying cause is still there.

The fact that Margereth Hassan was murdered makes Iraq look like a country at war... boing!!! Yes, that's an understatement!
But I hope those murderers don't gain support from her bruteless execution.

When I looked at where my pageviews came from I noticed this - Lockheed-Martin Corporation, United States.

Lockheed and the Netherlands that can't go together. Lockheed bribeb prince Bernard of the Netherlands. With other words the now 93 years old Bernard wasn't as reliable as we thaught he was. And now she reached the final stage in life. He has cancer and won't be helped.

World, don't suffer and have a calm night.

Depressed

I felt very uncomfortable in my job the last couple of days. It weren't off-days but I felt a little depressed. I feel a lack of concentration. Did I sleep too little? I think so, according to this log the weekends were not full of sleep and to get enough sleep vitamins I got to use the weekends.
Yes I know I am boring.

Size matters

The 7.5 gigabyte photograph of TNO Delft might be the largest digital panoramic view in the world.
It might take some time to upload. Size matters.