Motion and Rest: Screen Printing Workshop
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This week I've been distracted. I was going to say "busy," but who isn't? I wanted to share a comic about the three hours of treadmill running I did due to the snow we got in Portland this week, but I was distracted by creating images for a two part screen printing workshop I'm doing this and next week as part of the IPRC Comics Portfolio Program. One of the reasons I started a "weekly" newsletter was to force myself to be okay with consistently pushing out artwork and writing that is good enough. This week definitely tested this resolve. Please find few thoughts about treadmill running, podcasts I've enjoyed recently, and some of the images which I'll screen print this coming week.
Running easily on the treadmill (at 2% grade) was a nice break from my normal routine. I've been struggling the past few weeks with how my running mechanics have been changing. I still compensate to protect my left knee at faster paces which means that I'm not able to sustain faster running comfortably or consistently. Running on the treadmill, I don't trust the callibration so I focus on effort and time and throw pace and mileage out the window which freed me up to run at an effort that felt comfortable aerobically and mechanically. This was a good reset to break out of mileage and pace-based thinking. I'd like to shift my thinking around easy runs to focus more on duration versus mileage. I'd also like to continue logging (very slow) miles each week at paces that feel mechanically comfortable to hopefully build back up to faster running without compensation.
On the treadmill and during training this week, I listened to a few podcasts:
- 1619 by the NY Times Mag, I really liked the final two episodes about Black farmers and agriculture culture in the US.
- COFFEE CLUB Episode 74 ft. Josette Andrews, this weekly podcast is one of my inspirations for Motion and Rest. Listening to George, Morgan, and Olli every week helped get me through my knee injury, surgery, and ongoing recovery. I feel like I get to live vicariously through them and have some desparately needed runner boi banter through the uncertainty and isolation of injury. I really like when they use their platform to interview women in the sport. This episode with Josette has some cool thoughts on navigating the NCAA system as an athlete in the second half.
- Citius Mag: This week in Track and Field (Feb 23rd) with Chris Chavez and David Melly, this was a listen of opportunity. They do a great job recapping World Cross, USATF Indoor Champs, and more, but I don't think you NEED to listen to this episode.
- Out of the Blocks Diary of K & J (Jan 19th), I've been trying to diversify the perspectives I consume and I've been really enjoying listening to Out of the Blocks with Katelyn Hutchinson and Jasmine Todd. Both actively competing, black athletes, this episode covers the recent challenges that they've been working through respectively and satiated a similar need for banter among athletes training and competing at a high level which COFFEE CLUB has met for me.
Shifting gears, here are a few of the images I created to screen print this coming week:
What do you think about this new logo? Let me know in the comments below
Anyone else struggle to prioritize your needs?
I've been thinking a lot about telling yonsei stories after seeing "No No Girl," a feature length film about a yonsei which I got to see last weekend.
Thanks for reading! How do you practice being good enough?