20 july 2024
Sports / weights / strength
Went to the gym this morning for a session of deadlifts / overhead press / lat pulls. Went mostly well, except the crowd at the gym felt more annoying than usual. Folks, how hard is it to not leave 60kg of plates on a bar when you're done with it, and how hard is it to understand that if you don't put your weight back reasonably cleanly then MAYBE you're lifting more than you should? (Accidents happen. When it happens 5 times in a row, it's not accidents anymore.) Yes, I'm judgemental. And I did not appreciate the impression that I was in the way/not in my place because folks were just taking ALL THE SPACE around me and moving close to me during my lifts in a way that felt unsafe. And I'm pretty sure the fault was not mine on that one.
Grmbl, people.
Went to Baden for late lunch - Pierre went there by bike and I joined him by train. We walked a bit around the city, enjoyed the Limmat and the bridges above it, and went home (by train). It was very nice (also the tapas lunch was nice!) but it was also quite hot, and I felt more tired/grumpy than usual when coming home. Water helped, though (:surprised_pikachu:)
Finished my "Hangeul refresher" class on Coursera (namely "The Korean Alphabet: An Introduction to Hangeul" and it was overall a very enjoyable experience. I liked the format with both the videos and the small texts; the quizzes were maybe too much on the "easy" side to be really useful, but oh well. It was maybe also a bit fast on combination vowels. But overall, this is what I needed as a refresher before restarting my learning proper.