Barefoot running on tar road in Cape Town

Yesterday evening I decided to run to the train station from work. I ended up running barefoot (no shoes on). The idea was to see what the difference was compared to having shoes on that can slow me down due to weight. The other plan was to also get my feet used to that kind of thing for excercise reasons. On fairly smooth road surfaces this works fine, but I do not want to do this on a rough road surface.

The detour from work to the train station due to locked gate, ended up being my new best time for that route and I managed to get to the train on time. Then I switched over to another train. Once I got off there, I started doing the same running again because of clients and I had to cover 2.6 kilometers. After a big more than 1 kilometer, my feet started complaining a bit.

Running from Mowbray to Salt River station again

For two weeks I have been working rather late. As a result of this, I was always trying to catch the 19:30 train at Salt River station, because the next one is a long wait. My work is in the suburb of Mowbray and there is the entire Observatory suburb between my work and Salt River station. Over time, I have been getting better in regards to running the entire trip. It is a lot of effort and the ground to run on is not smooth and it has some slopes.

Applications getting stuck during installation

There have been several applications which I have tried to install where the installer just got stuck. This includes Windows Live Messenger which dies when using the defaults (installs more or less everything additional). Adobe Flash CS3 installer also froze my PC a few times and the application dies on startup. Dreamweaver doesn't close down properly, it always remains running as a process. Unless that process is killed, it will not become visible again. Windows also gets stuck during shutdown for some odd reason after already closing all running applications before doing the shutdown.