Weekly rewind - W17 ⏪

28 Apr, 2025

Sunset from a recent run, shot with mood.camera.

⏪ Week in rewind

• 🎒 Easter holidays came to an end, so the boys had to go back to school. While it's good they went back to their known routine, I think they suffered from the switch to school, getting up early and doing after-school activities. Except for Nelson, they were difficult to handle.

• 💻 Working from home remains a difficult topic, where I'm either laser-guided or slack for parts of the day. I'm not sure whether it was due to working from home the whole week, but some days I just didn't feel like it and had to drag myself through the day.

• 💪 I remained consistent to my strength training, doing a session daily. While going easy on my quadriceps (after the strain of last week) I did focus on push-ups, sit-ups, plank,... I'm very happy with this consistency knowing it'll help my running, health and wellbeing over the long run.

• 🏃 Speaking of running, while initially starting easy for my quad with a test run of 2 & 4km, I did end the week with +50km. Most was gained with my 20km run yesterday, which was very hard. I've done many of these runs before, but the one yesterday made me remember my marathon of 3 years ago where I had similar difficulties. My legs were hurting, and I had to push through to finish it. In the end, I think it was a combination of the warm temperature and not enough food and drinking before the run. I still feel the discomfort today, so this was a good wake-up call to properly prepare for every training.

• ⚽ The boys had their last game of the football season, with only a few tournaments left for them to play. It's a pity for them, but it does free up some time for us, not having to taxi them around, often to different locations at the same time.

• ✈️ I reflected on and wrote about the tools and apps I used the most during our trip to Malta.

📺 Watched

• 📺 Daredevil: Born again (❤️ - Loved it)

• 📺 Protection (😊 - Decent)

• 📺 Andor - Started watching season 2

📚 Reading

• 📗 Imperium by Robert Harris.

• 🎧 World without End by Ken Follett

📱 Apps in focus

• Unhinged. A simple mood and people tracker, micro journal,... It looks great and is easy to use, keeping track of things and seeing how they affect your well-being. I've been playing around with Unhinged before, but didn't commit to it, as I journal with Obsidian. But as I now want to log a lot more and see how it affects me (like sports, sleep, stomach,...), I've decided to give Unhinged another go. And the recent addition to set a reminder for people also makes it easy to follow up on small interactions you would otherwise maybe forget.

🔗 Read or saved

• Showing up by Ava, on the importance of showing up and putting oneself out there despite fears and uncertainties. Showing up is so important, yet I often need to combat myself to do so.

• Can the “Flow State” Save Us From Distraction? explores the concept of flow state, detailing its benefits and how individuals can achieve it to enhance focus and creativity. What hit me the hardest was mentioning digital dementia and how scatterbrained we have become.

• Seven Barriers to Building More Meaningful Connections, on how important social interactions are and yet how difficult they are to have.

• Can’t sleep: this is why you wake up at the same time every single night. Informational on why you might wake up at the same time every night.

🏋️ Fitness log

• 🏃 Running: 51km (👍 - Great week.)
• 🚴 Biking: 16km (😐 - Few commutes)

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