Archive for training
Brussels blues
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Belgium, Brussels, ERC, European Research Council, European Union, jatp, lamp-post, morning run, sunrise, training, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre on June 26, 2024 by xi'an
Argentan half-marathon [1:30:55, 25/165, 2/9M5M, 23⁰]
Posted in pictures, Running with tags Argentan, Argentan half-marathon, countryside, Courir en Normandie, Garmin, M5M, Master, Normandie Course à Pied, Orne, road race, semi-marathon, training on October 5, 2023 by xi'an
semi-marathon d’Argentan 2023
Posted in Statistics with tags Argentan, Argentan half-marathon, countryside, M5M, Orne, road race, semi-marathon, training on October 1, 2023 by xi'an
course du souffle au Parc de Sceaux [42:06, 10k, 128m⁺, 43/663, 1/19M5M]
Posted in pictures, Running with tags 10k, Argentan half-marathon, Berlin marathon, course du souffle, cross, half-marathon, M5M, Parc de Sceaux, Sceaux, Tigst Assefa, training on September 26, 2023 by xi'an
technical steps
Posted in Books, Linux, Running, Travel with tags Beamer, Firefox, Garmin, KAUST, Kubuntu 22.04, laptop, LaTeX, road race, training, Ubuntu 22.04, upgrade, xcolor on June 11, 2023 by xi'an
After procrastinating as much as feasible, I switched at last to (K)Ubuntu 22.04, Jammy Jellyfish, after security updates stopped for the 20.04 version. While this proceeded mostly without hiccups, the upgrade stalled when upgrading Firefox, which I had foolishly left open. When I turned it off and completed the upgrade, this erased all of my Firefox personal profile… Rather than copying my latest backup, I recovered most of the Firefox profile by syncing from another computer, although that. This was (recklessly) the very day before I flew to KAUST and, upon arriving there, I found out the associated version of beamer (3.65) had an issue, with colours (xcolor). Problem that I brute forced by downloading all files of the latest version (3.70), since a direct upgrade of beamer did not seem feasible… I have now recovered most of my (updated) passwords and my favourite commands are again running. (As a coincidence, I also recently bought a Garmin watch for training, which definitely helps for faster sessions—with possibly side effects on my cycling trips as I am trying to raise my average speed—although I find the battery life ridiculously small.)
