Travel

So, I went back to Africa. To East Africa, specifically Tanzania. Booked a Safari for like 15 days. Started in Arusha. Saw some Baboons. There are a lot of Baboons in Africa. We saw many. Not sure if it was even worth taking a video of them.

Caught this Black Heron grabbing a quick bite. One of my favorite videos from the trip.

Here is the required Elephant video.

A bunch of Giraffe.

My first trip to Africa, warthogs were hard to photograph. I got a few on this trip, but they are still pretty elusive.

Even though the foliage got in the way, I like this photograph of these monkeys hanging out together.

A water buck out standing in the field.

We did see other birds, like this immature Spur winged goose.

A bee eater. We saw a lot of these, probably not the best picture.

And a male Purple banded Sunbird.

Running

I ran no races for 25-26 academic year. I injured my left knee and just neve could get back into the swing of training.

For 24-25 I ran the Two Cities marathon in Fall 2024, and the Classic Half-Marathon in Spring 2025.

I improved my Two Cities time to 4 hours and 37 minutes. More importantly, I felt good at the end and not awful like the last time where I maxed out my long run at 14 miles. Training to run four and half hours really made a difference.

Still trying to get back under two hours for my half-marathon time. I was unsuccessful at the California Classic, but strangely, managed to finish 3rd in my age group.