Author: aarongubin
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Mental Errors
Perhaps the most important lesson I picked up in all the years of baseball and softball I’ve played: minimize the mental errors. I can have a plan at the start of every at-bat for what happens based on how the number of outs and where runners are. A liner, a hard hit grounder, a softly…
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Film Work
I stole a few minutes away from work today to watch some of the pickleball tournament (Ugly Sweater) and filmed a couple of the matches. It’s interesting to review the footage and pick apart the technical weaknesses of the players. Pickleball, at my low level, is a game of patience. Simply keep the ball in…
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Tuesday Run Shutdown
I only made it a mile before deciding that continuing a long, easy run would just be begging for trouble. The calf is too tight. To call it pain isn’t right. I don’t exactly wince with every pushoff, but it’s unpleasant. Could I have forced it? Oh yeah. But it would not have had a…
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Electric Capacity: Timing Matters
There’s an important detail that is easily misunderstood about electricity and its supply and demand. When it’s used has a tremendous impact. This is a characteristic I hadn’t given much thought about several years ago, which is why it’s not really a surprise to me that so many other people don’t intuit it either. In…
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Running Pains
On Tuesday morning, I went for a run. About two miles into the cruise, I felt a tightening in one of my calves. Almost immediately, I shut down the run straight into a walk. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become much better about listening to my body. Stiffness, soreness, pain: stop. A lot less do…