Marathons

 When I was younger, I used to think that "marathon" just mean any long race, or long thing. I had my main exposure to marathons by way of midnight movie marathons at the cinema. I have a very vague impression of marathons at school - though knowing primary schools they probably just called two laps of the oval a marathon for the athletics carnival.

A few years ago I found out that a marathon is actually a race of a specific length. Forty two point one nine five kilometers to be exact. And a few days ago I was watching some random YouTube videos and saw one of a dude that ran a marathon for his 42nd birthday.

So of course I thought - hey, I should do that! I can already run (okay, jog) 10km in about an hour, so allowing for slowing down over time I ought to be able to cover 40km or so in about six hours. An average adult can do it in five hours, four with a bit of training.

Then I remembered - I'm already over 42.

Dang.

Finally beat Cliff

 The title may be a little misleading if you're not a Pokemon Go player, but the short version is that there are the standard critters to catch, and also some enemies in the form of Team Rocket players to beat. It's set up slightly differently to how it goes down in the cartoon series, but the short version is that there are low level enemies referred to as "grunts", mid level ones referred to as leaders and big ones labled as Boss.

(There may be higher level ones, but i haven't encountered them yet).

In order to get to the Boss, one needs to first beat a few leaders - and the first few I was able to beat relatively easily. Today I was able to beat the last of them, after having battled a bunch of times and getting smushed into the ground each time.

It may only be a game, but nice to have a bit of sweet, sweet victory.