A huge congratulations to @philipthalis on his well-deserved award.
Philip is undeniably both one of Australia's most respected architects and a tireless advocate for good urban design.
More importantly, he's not afraid to speak up publicly against bad state government planning decisions, as he did with Barangaroo, even when there's a personal cost.
Thursday:
101 seconds of plank
11 minutes of yoga for runners (#AppleFitness)
20 minutes of strength training
30 minutes of HIIT
6.4 km of #walking (10°C, 11km/hr wind)
…a few hours later, 6 km of #cycling for a #Filmmaking meeting to go over some stuff from the shoot.
Pretty pleased this morning, after all the workouts, got the walking speed under 9 minutes per KM, so that made me happy at least. Knee still seems to be okay. 🤔
Can also confirm that I still do not like burpees (in HIIT). 🤣
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'A new report has found that a majority (56%) of people want to shift investment in road building schemes to funding options for walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport.
Sustrans’ Walking and Cycling Index... also revealed greater public demand for active travel over driving, with 50% wanting to walk more and 43% wanting to cycle more. A third of people want to make greater use of public transport.'
🚶 Started my day with a 3.87 mile walk / 8300 steps! #walking
🤧 Recovered from my severe head cold last week. Feeling much better!
🎓 Finished my first research paper last night for new #GradSchool class, in a subject that is useful to me. Computer networks. About 60-some weeks of grad school left.
I just started today, and even though the #game is only in closed beta, and the features are basic, the concept and mechanics are different from the other fitness gamification apps I've played/playing.
It did capture the feels of an #MMO and combined it with fitness.
Again, I'm just a newbie, only started today. I haven't thoroughly explored the game. I just walked.
You don't even need to run the app in the background, it will collect the steps your phone recorded the next time you open the game.
Features I'm waiting for (not sure if it's planned, again, I'm a new player):
Sync with Google Fit or Health Connect. This way we can use the "steps" from our sports watch instead of the phone. I think it's also easier since the Dev doesn't have to add support for Product X and Service Z.
Health Connect is good for those who prefer privacy, as Health Connect stays in the unit (unless the user syncs it with Fit or other apps).
Google Fit is, well, cloud-based. (Then again, most sports watch users are using their brand's cloud-based service anyway, and are more likely sync'd to Fit. 😆)
Guilds/clans. Because why not? Hehe.
Quests/missions.
It might be possible to add quests wherein even if we're not moving (like those in work-from-home), we can do something. Nothing game changing, because again, you have to move move move!
Of course, the majority of the quests require moving.
More races!
Elf
Half-elf
Dwarves
Vampires
I dunno, any race that no one can claim copyright is good. (I mean, we can't use kinder because that's DragonLance.) And each race has some pros and cons.
Foes?
Say, during a game event, we have to, for example, collect 10,000 steps in a week to ensure we are ahead of an enemy chasing us? If we fail, there's a penalty.
And the story of the event moves forward depending on the total steps of everyone in a kingdom.
Finding out there's a not insignificant amount of people think that a #15MinuteCity means creating little isolated island prisons is a whole new level of human idiocy that I wasn't expecting to ruin my day today.
Alright fuckers listen up. 15 minute cities are simply a city designed around the basic fucking principles of #urbanplanning and having actual walkable streets so that wherever you are in the city, or wherever your neighborhood is, you have all the basics necessities you need to go about your day within a 15 minute trip. This isn't isolated to singular neighborhoods or "zones". It's an interconnected network accross the entire city, in any place you are, in the city as a whole.
This isn't some new agenda, or just about #ClimateChange or the #environment, it's about designing our cities around human needs and #Community. It's how we used to have our cities before cars took over. If you need to go further, or prefer to go further, you can easily do so by #walking#publictransit or #biking. It's just going to take longer than 15 minutes. That's it. Shocking I know.
Why are people like this? Just take the train you fuckwits.
What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.
Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.
How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?
Pierwsze fotki w tym roku. Wczoraj była okazja do spaceru w iście zimowych warunkach. Nie mogło zabraknąć małej fotograficznej dokumentacji z #dziekanka
My only requests? Don't be an idiot, drop the attitude, don't be a social media sheep and do everything everyone else does... but above all... Just. Be. You.
Explored the lower 14-mile section of the Deschutes River Trail. My first time hiking in a desert river canyon. I could have used more elevation gain but it was fun. I’ve become obsessed with canoe camping videos over the last couple months so I enjoyed being close to the river. Nothing more than a little light rain and I was dry by the end of the hike.
It’s amazing how being back in the forest and hiking straight up a mountain can put me in a great mood. I was prepared but I wasn’t expecting a few inches of snow at the top. The trail was closed for a few years but has been recently rerouted and cleared. Some new trees fell in the last few months but not that bad. Very steep though.
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