May 1

Still going to bed late, when I'm already very tired, but getting up around five in the morning. 8am may have been the latest I got up so far this year, usually it's with sunrise and early morning birds. I am sure I should work on going to bed earlier, but there's just so much to be done. Getting up that early, I like that all too much, and usually I am up by then even when I do not set an alarm. Whatever....

Yesterday, May 1, I went out with a number of Latvian traceurs (and similar people, it seems). Went to Mangalsala, at the estuary of the Daugava. For one, to some rather destroyed military fortifications, and secondly to the beach. Practicing flips, let alone on sand, seems a great idea, but isn't quite my thing (with contact lenses? - the day before, it was very windy after warm and dry days, dust was blowing everywhere... fortunately, I only did some quick shopping and came back, but even so it was not good for my eyes.)
Took some photographs to stitch together into panorama views of the Daugava where it meets the Baltic sea, and of the sea's beach close-by. Will be online soon, I hope.

Wandering the sand beach barefooted, running a little on the beach and the dunes at its inland edge was extremely beautiful.
I got some more photographs for my series of sports self-portraits, and I think they turned out very nicely. This "Move Free"-series is starting to really become a series, and I am pretty happy with how it is progressing...
It's one of those things, aside of the academic work that needs doing, that I love doing (like sports, also) because it gives you a more immediate feedback on your action; writing seemingly takes forever, getting stuff to a publisher or into a journal takes its time again... it is psychologically more exhausting than a marathon is physically.
Or so I think, and I'll see soon enough.