A quiet Friday night

DJ Mitsu The Beats - Nightfall

Some advice...

If you see something by London Grammar, you LISTEN TO IT. I heard "Strong" a month ago and was like "how do I get more?" alas... I was disappointed. Fortunately, it turns out their Metal & Dust EP is on Spotify and all of it is excellent.

Think xx and Florence + the Machine's love child. Sounds too good to be true? IT'S NOT

Their LP If You Wait is out this September. CAN'T WAIT.

Now go!

Mind drawing a blank

It's odd, I haven't posted much recently not due to forgetting about the blog per se, or not having much going on (quite the opposite)... I guess I'm just having trouble finding topics I really want to talk about in a longer, more united post. Maybe I'll just leave it up to a "quick hits" post today:

• I did my first ever triathlon last weekend! It was a sprint triathlon (500 m swim, 20 km bike, 5 km run) and was an interesting challenge. I remember feeling more mentally and physically exhausted after the half marathon, but this was its own challenge. My relative inexperience in the open water swim and the cycle leg showed, not to mention my transitions. Fortunately I made up a lot of ground in the run. I'll be looking to do another with a long-term goal of finishing an Olympic length triathlon by the time I'm 30 , no let's say 2014...
• While "training" for the triathlon I found myself trying to challenge my times with some slightly longer run distances. Ever since I started hitting the sub-5 min per km consistently this spring, I've been pushing myself distance-wise. I'm now at the point where my all-time 8 km record I achieved in Grade 10 (2003!) of 36:45 is now within reach... my most recent run hit ~37 min, so I'm still a few seconds off. It's gonna be hard but not impossible at this stage...
• The next six months are really going to be testing my resolve and discipline as I look to go through CaRMS again. This may be the hardest I'll have to work to earn something...
• Mid August means that first "smell of fall" is on its way. What I mean by this is that there's always one morning probably 4-6 weeks before the first evidence of autumn hits where you can just smell or feel the fall air. It's kind of neat, but also kind of depressing even though I really do like fall. I don't think anyone really looks forward to summer ending. 
• As much I've been trying not to, I've been binging on a lot of music this year. I partially blame Spotify, but I think there have been a lot of solid albums that have been released so far in 2013. I'll post some of my favourites soon.