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Above:  Todays footprint after 30K fresh-traning-day ('Come prepared'). Cloudy on the verge of sunny. Gentle wind.

Today's training carried by Miyamoto Musashi waka-poem and his drawing 'Floating Duck':

Having flown across the vast sky,

its wings now forgotten,

this duck sports serenly

as it entrusts itself to the waves

of endless mountain streams.

From 'Miyamoto Musashi, his life and writings', by Kenji Tokitsu

"Conscience does make cowards of us all"

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Kennemer dunes 360° today. Question [ how much do we really need? ]

Min/max temperature: 4°C/16°C; humidity: 91%; precipitation: 0 mm; sea level pressure: 1031 hPa; wind: Variable 5.0 km/h; visibility: 10.0 kilometres

"INT. GENERAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE GASTAPO IN BERLIN - DAY

Officer: Heil Hitler.
Joseph Tura: Heil Hitler!
Officer: Colonel, we have Wilhelm Coetze here. If you'd like to look into his record. I hope he'll talk.
Joseph Tura: He'd better. Send him in.
Officer: Yes, sir. Wilhelm Coetze!

A boy, approximately aged ten, enters.

Wilhelm, the boy: Heil Hitler!
Josesph Tura: Heil Hitler! And now, Wilhelm, I understand you want a little tank to play with.
Wilhelm: Yes, my father promised me one if I got a good report card.
Josesp Tura: But our Fuhrer heard about your report card... and decided to give you just what you want.
Wilhelm: Heil Hitler!
Joseph Tura: Heil Hitler! You are going to tell your father who gave it to you, aren't you, Wilhelm?
Wilhelm: Sure, our Fuhrer.
Joseph Tura: And then maybe he will like the Fuhrer a little better, won't he?
Wilhelm: Sure.
Josesph Tura: He doesn't like him now, does he?
Wilhelm: No, he doesn't.
Joseph Tura: And sometimes he even says funny things about him, doesn't he?
Wilhelm: Well, he said they named a brandy after Napoleon... and they made a herring out of Bismarck. And Hitler's going to end up as...
Officer: A piece of cheese.
Wilhelm: Yes.
Joseph Tura: Yeah. How did you know?
Officer: Well, it's a natural thought.
Joseph Tura: A natural thought?!
Officer: I hope you don't misunderstand. I always, that is... You see, Colonel, I hope you don't doubt my...
All: Heil Hitler!

Door opens, Adolf Hitler enters.

Officer: The Fuhrer!
Officer: Heil Hitler!
Joseph Tura: Heil Hitler!
Adolf Hitler: Heil myself.

The Director, Mr. Dobosh suddenly interrupts. Standing up agitated from behind his reading table in the theatre.

Director Mr. Dobosh: That's not in the script!
Mr. Bronksi (Hitler): But, Mr. Dobosh, please.
Director Mr. Dobosh: That's not in the script, Mr. Bronski.
Mr. Bronski: But it'll get a laugh.
Director Mr. Dobosh: I don't want a laugh here. How many times have I told you not to add any lines? I want...
Mr. Greensberg: You want my opinion, Mr. Dobosh?
Director Mr. Dobosh: No Mr. Greenberg, I don't want your opinion.
Mr. Greensberg: All right, then let me give you my reaction. A laugh is nothing to be sneezed at.
Director Dobosh: Mr. Greenberg, I hired you as an actor, not as a writer. Understand? No. What does the script say?
Mr. Bronksi: I make an entrance.
Director Dobosh: And what do you say?
Mr. Bronksi: Nothing.
Director Dobosh: Then say nothing."

From: 'To Be or Not To Be', Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Written by Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer and Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited), starring Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Sig Ruman, first released on February 19, 1942 in Los Angeles, trough United Artists

"Enter HAMLET.
Ham. To be, or no to be, -- that is the question: --
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
 the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? -- To die, -- to sleep, -- No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks.
The flesh is heir to, -- 'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd. To die, -- to sleep;-- To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
 For in that sleep of death what dreams my come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause; there's the respect that makes calamity of so long life; time for who would bear the whips and scorns of the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of disposed love, the law's delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death,-- the undiscover'd country, from whose bourn no traveller returns,--puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have that fly to others that we know not of? 
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.-- Soft you now! The fair Ophelia.--Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered."

From: William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet, Prince of Danmark', Act III, scene 1, written between 1599 and 1602, page 960 of 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare', first published in 1958 by Spring Books, London

"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

William Shakespeare as quoted in the preface of 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare', page VI, first published in 1958 by Spring Books, London

"The major limitation of consciousness is its innocence."

David Hawkins in 'Power vs Force', page 251, first published in 1995 by Hay House, United Kingdom

Breath is given, heartbeat what you make of it

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Above: Half-way training at the IJmuiden South Pier, this morning. The ship¹ coming in is the passenger Vessel Saga Pearl II, from Cuxhaven Germany heading for Amsterdam.

Preparation for awesome wintertraining started these days! Discomfort is the best place to start. To prepare for worse (the winter) to come. To learn to adjust to discomfort creates:

a) Feeling of acceptance and well being with(in) the present circumstances (things can and will be a hell-of-a-lot-worse soon);

b) Prepares for what lies ahead as you built resiliency.

The best moment to start preparing for winter-training is... NOW.

How?

Easy does it. Look at adversity and discomfort as your coach. It shows you what needs to be learnt or you'll end up falling prone to finding excuses in it for not doing anything at all. Feeling a slight chill this summer? Don't panic and complain. Use it as a modest introduction to building up resistance and learn to deal with it: when it will get colder you will be much better prepared.

Remember that breath and breathing controls the heart beating. Every emotional-state has a corresponding breathing pattern². The reverse is true also. By introducing deep, relaxing breathing exercises, states of anxiety and its corresponding high heart rates will be brought within a reasonable zone.

To keep your well being within your reasonable zone is extremely important for your training to be effective, healthy and pleasant. You'll burn up and run out of breath soon other wise.

Breath is what is given, heartbeat what you make of it!

Your training should be designed to control that and the result will be that you will have fun.

Does that require fancy equipment attached to my arms to monitor my wellbeing?

If you are a robot or are part of a special program to become one: yes sure you do. In all other cases the less equipment, pretensions, high-tech stuff and fear based neurotic believes and superstition, the better of you are. Allowing you to fully concentrate on what you are doing; it introduces one to the essence of what is there and to make it stronger. Though this is not always a pleasant feeling to begin with; it is the best place to start (and go easy from there)!

¹ See also: "O my brothers, who braved 100.000 perils to reach the west, choose not to deny experience of the unpeopled world. Think of the seed of your creation. You were not born to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.": http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/running/160-sar-sarsential-23

² See: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/180-wuwei

Undercurrent

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IJmuiden, 360° today. Structure [ team ]

Above: With Nico (the boss behind the desk) and mechanics Cees and Mike at TCY. Nico and his self-taught team are excellent car mechanics and pleasant people to deal with, located in the dunes, near the sea.

Min/max temperature: 6°C/11°C; humidity: 70%; precipitation: 0 mm; sea level pressure: 1016.14 hPa; wind: W 24.1 km/h; visibility: 10.0 kilometres; Clouds: Few 731 m., Scattered Clouds 1341 m.; Moon: Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated

"[C]hilderen all over the world acquire languages with the same basic characteristics, in about the same sequence, at about the same age, almost regardless of their intelligence and almost regardless of their environment. [ This ] suggest that the basic forms of language -- the duality between phonemic and morphemic levels, the organisation of utterances into phrases, the transformation of phrase structure -- are somehow genetically inevitable. They are a model which experience can clothe, but cannot reshape. Just this was also the nativism of the Gestalt psychologists. They never argued that experience had no effects, but only that its effects were organised and determined by the deeper requirements of structure."

Ulric Neisser in 'Cognitive Psychology', page 247, first published in 1967 by Pretice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey