Reading

It might be just because I am stoked on the Kindle, as you probably gathered from yesterday's post, but I have made a commitment to watch less TV and read more books. I've always been a pretty voracious reader and I still read a ton of newspapers, magazines and other media, but I need and want to get back to books. So, similiar to running, I have set forth a goal: to read 10-15 books in 2009. I think this is doable.

Thus far in 2009 I've read Dark Summit, an Everest account (6.5 on a 1-10) and The Historian (7 stars. Faltered towards the end and far, far too long). On the docket is The Lost City of Z, which is thus far excellent (I'm about a quarter way through) and Emergency: This Book Could Save Your Life by Neil Strauss, author of The Game, which is one of my all-time favorites. ANyway, you can probably sense a (not so) new obsession coming on. I am all ears in regards to recommendations.

Who knows, maybe I'll even start a 'virtual" book club of sorts on these pages.

In other news, I have a little adventure planned for tomorrow morning. The plan is wake up at o dark hundred, eat a quick breakfast and head out and run to work, which I estimate, depending on the route (which I am unsure of) to be somewhere between 13-16 miles. SHould be pretty cool: down the mountain from our house to the flats (hoping to avoid wayward cars) down through the towpath from Mill Valley to Sausalito and then climb up the Golden Gate bridge (if I time it correctly I should be on the bridge when the sun comes up), down the Bridge to the Marina and run water side to the Embarcadero to my office. Should be pretty gnarly. I'll post a brief wrap up tomorrow.