On the run

  Tuesday's run . Friday's run . I'm reducing my distances now; this week I ran a little less than 8 km on Tuesday and a little over 8 km today. My goal is to keep both weekly runs within that range. Last summer, during the summer, both runs were 6 km, so I want to push myself a bit more. In other words, I'm already getting ready for summer, which has officially begun for me. Yes, the official date is the solstice, which will be next June 20th, in a week. But for me, just as spring begins with the Palo Verde trees blooming, summer starts when the humidity is over 85% at 5:30 AM and you sweat a lot while running. When Mariana and I reached the entrance of Colonia Mariana and each went our separate ways, I started thinking about the book "HISTORIA DE LA TIERRA, UNA COSMOGONÍA PERSONAL" It's been 9 days since it came out, and on one hand, I'm very happy; it has remained among the top one or two best-selling books on Amazon Mexico in several categories rel...

  Race on Tuesday, June 3rd. Race on Friday, June 6th The weather is changing, and with it, I'm looking to adjust my running routines for the summer. On Tuesday, I ran 8.8 km, and today, 10.5 km. The summer heat is already starting to be felt. One of the topics that always gets me thinking—not just when I'm running, or when I'm in the pool or on the terrace—no, all the time—is living beings. I've always been fascinated by how they respond to the environment and the way their life cycles synchronize with seasonal changes. But not only that: how they integrate with the other living beings they live with, forming complex trophic structures, who feeds on whom. We create surprisingly complex systems, which we call ecosystems. This is because living beings can perceive and process information from the environment. In this way, they determine when conditions are right for carrying out different activities when they are at risk, and what that risk is when the necessary food sou...

Carrerita de martes 27 de mayo . Carrerita de viernes 30 de mayo . La semana pasada no tuve corrida larga, el jueves 22 fui a ver el fútbol con unos amigos y ya no tuve ánimos para levantarme a correr al día siguiente, así que no hubo divagación. Hoy si me levanté a correr, pero la humedad estaba pesada, así que decidí recortar la carrera, apenas un poco más de 10 km. Se podría pensar que después de  una semana de no publicar debería de tener varios temas para divagar, pero no, la verdad es que lo único que he traído en mente es la proximidad del lanzamiento de “HISTORIA DE LA TIERRA, UNA COSMOGONÍA PERSONAL”. La fecha ya está muy próxima, el 4 de junio. Bueno, para fines prácticos la tarde del 3 de junio, aquí en México. Oficialmente el libro aparecerá el 4 de junio a las 00:00 UTC, las 5:00 pm del 3 de junio, aquí en Guaymas. Sé que ya publicado aparecerán errores, a pesar del esfuerzo de Soco, mi hermano que se encargó de la revisión de estilo, mías y de que a varias personas le...

  Tuesday, May 13th race . Friday, May 16th race. This is how the weather should be all year round, Guaymas would be a paradise, once again I reaffirm my opinion that May is the best month inGuaymasWe'll have to take advantage of it. Now, it's time to run, and it's time to do the runs earlier, especially the long runs, since at 8 a.m., the sun falls heavy. So today, I left a little earlier. Before 5:30, Mariana and I were already jogging down the street. As always, she left the neighborhood and took her route, while I continued. Now my ramblings ended very philosophically. I remember when I was in my first year of senior high school, I came across Rene Descartes in logic class. I had heard of him before and his famous "I think, therefore I am," but the truth is, I had never paid the slightest interest to him. But when I started senior high school, I was in a period of much questioning and discovered that Descartes' method was, precisely, systematic doubt. Then...

  Race on Wednesday, May 6 Race on Friday, May 9 It's now May 9 and for the first day in the month I don't feel the fresh breeze in the early morning. It's the first time since I had the pool that on my birthday, which was Monday, I didn't go into the pool, I don't remember such a cool start to May. Last week I commented on what it was like to gain confidence, first, and persistence to write “HISTORIA DE LA TIERRA, UNA COSMOGONÍA PERSONAL” and the decision that it was already finished. But I still didn't show it to anyone, only Rebeca and my children knew of its existence, but not even they had read it. That's where I was when I tripped and rolled on the ground, fortunately nothing serious happened to me, by Wednesday I was already running again. It's funny how the name of the book came about. One day, while I was sharing a few beers with Guille at the pool, he asked me what the book was about. I began to explain to him. After a while he interrupted me, ...

  Race on Tuesday, April 29 Race on Friday, May 2 It's already May and the weather is still cool, it's great for running, but I want it to get warmer to enjoy the pool. This week I felt motivated, now everything is ready for the publication of my book, it has been quite an adventure. I had been worried for a long time about write it, what I have learned is that writing it is only one part, yes the main part, but only one part. The first thing was to gain the confidence that I could write a text that was worthwhile. I don't mean that I didn't believe in being able to have clear writing, because of my training and work I wrote many texts, but technical ones. Reports, reports, articles, but in these you always have to be clear and concise, therefore they are dry texts. Being able to write something that was entertaining, that's what I doubted I could do. I tried several times, but I wasn't satisfied and quit. It was during the confinement of the pandemic when I was...