From a really cold coffee shop in Franklin, TN enjoying a slice of a lemon loaf. 🥶
Budding Triathlete (Pickleball, Skiing, Running) 😆
Pickleball
I wrapped up the second weekend of the inaugural USLPL 35+ Pro League in Hatboro, PA with my team, the Chattanooga Iron Paddles. Unfortunately, we went 0-4 on the weekend and sit 5th out of six teams. We've got one more showcase to go before championship weekend, so time to dial things in and make a championship run!
Skiing
The consolation prize was my older sister and I drove up to Burke Mountain afterward and spent two days skiing there. Only the third time I've skiied and first time I've experienced a ski in/ski out setup (the backyard is right next to the lifts). Let me tell you, that's the way to go!
It was great quality time with the sister and had so much fun. Felt comfortable on the greens and then thought I was going to die on the first blue I tried. Went back to the greens to build confidence and then tackled a handful more blues.
I can totally understand why people hurt themselves skiing. The trails felt scary and hard enough to me that I actually practiced falling so I wouldn't panic during a crash.
Biggest win of the weekend was coming out with 2 out of 2 ACLs and all ligaments and tendons intact.
Running
A friend from LifeGroup wants to get back into running and do a 5k. That was enough motivation for me to try and come out of running retirement. So I've run once a week the last four weeks and this week will ramp it up to twice a week.
I also signed up for a 5k in early August. So have a long runway to prepare.
I'll be curious how I approach training. I historically am very competitive with myself so would train to run as fast I can. But I've been out of racing for so long that I may want to treat this first 5k as a competitive fun run.
We'll see.
Right now just focusing on building base mileage and preparing my body for potential intervial/speed work.
Tesni Lesson
I've been working on a new blog post that highlights the biggest lesson Tesni (the dog I used to have) taught me. It's taken me longer to post cause I've been editing it a lot, cutting out unncessary details, and figuring out what the key message is. It's close-ish to being published.
Short-Term Rental Web App
A friend and I used to have a software startup targeting short-term rental hosts (Airbnb, Vrbo, etc.).
It would automatically program smart locks based on reservation data. So when a guest was about to check in, the lock would be programmed to be the last four digits of their phone number. And when the guest checks out, the lock code would be deleted.
I'm essentially re-writing that app using Claude Code. But I haven't written a line of code yet. Instead, I'm learning about domain-driven design and working on documenting the app comprehensively upfront before unleashing Claude Code on it.
I finished Phase 1 (Domain Narrative) recently and will start work on Phase 2 (Tactical Design) this month.