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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First half marathon! Feels like I definitely could have gone for longer

Garmin running view of half marathon around Lake Union in 2:10:53

Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ran up Queen Anne hill as part of training for the Space Needle. Not quite as tall or steep, but 350ft is at least comparable to ~550.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today I ran 1/16th of a mile in 16 seconds. And I did that 6 times. (Not continuously, but with rest periods between.)

Garmin workout view of a 4.13 mile sprint workout around the west side of Lake Union.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

VO2 Max run the day after leg day on the gym is brutal.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Somehow "COSMERE" wasn't taken yet in Washington, so my husband nabbed it. Apparently "BRDG4" and "KALADIN" are still up for grabs (as of a few weeks ago).

A "COSMERE" license plate on a green Jeep.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Finally getting back to consistent 5ks. Found some nice 5k routes around Westlake and Fremont

5k running route through Fremont and across Aurora Bridge

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Extending runs now after my injury. With the new place, it's a significant hill to get anywhere.

Garmin view of running down and then up a 200-foot hill

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Me wen another player steps away from Slay the Spire 2 multiplayer ...

A bunch of drawings over the Slay the Spire 2 Act 2 map showing a giant crab boss. The map is covered in player-drawn question marks of various sizes. The Crab boss is labeled "Mr. Krabs". A drawing of Spongebob looks with horror. A satisfied Plankton laughs maniacally, saying this will finally get him the Krabby Patty formula.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Always nice to get a PR merged in a new project: github.com/google/keep-...

An image of the inbox screen of GitHub mobile app showing the mentioned PR being merged.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Working on fractals based on affine transformations, using the ones for a Sierpiński carpet as a base.

$Green hexagonal fractal with center filled in$ $Green hexagonal fractal with center missing$ $Green H-shaped fractal. The H is made of many smaller H's$ $Green x-shaped fractal, with center rotated.$

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

311 days to marathon. Difficult VO2 Max run followed by an hour of weight training. Going to feel it tomorrow.

Garmin view of 4.70 mile VO2 Max run. There is a personal record notification.

Distribution of heart rates in various zones. Most of the time was spent in Zones 4 and 5, and some in 3.

Garmin view of 1 hour strength workout and VO2 max run summary.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I wasn't able to train yesterday, but had a nice walk up and down Queen Anne. Looking forward to incorporating that into my running routes.

Garmin view of three walks, totaling about four miles.

Elevation chart showing nearly 400 foot gain.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

316 days to marathon. Nice long run around Lake Union. The goal here was heart rate, which I am really liking. Done with my first month of marathon training!

Garmin view of Long Run of 7.43 miles at 9:26 pace around Lake Union.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

318 days to marathon. Base run with a heart rate goal, so I took the opportunity to run up Queen Anne. It's neat how a heart rate goal keeps me at a steady workload even with hilly terrain. Also how fast my heart rate drops during inactivity - by 50 after a minute waiting for a crosswalk!

Garmin view of base run of 4.87 miles at 11:40 pace

Altitude graph of run by time, showing 400 foot climb up and down a hill.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

319 days to marathon. Difficult anaerobic intervals in the cold rain. I went to the Seattle Center since it's got nice, grippy asphalt for fast running even when wet. I'll probably go back for sprints - lots of straight open space where I can keep from running into people.

Garmin view of Anaerobic run. 5.44 miles at 9:13 average pace.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

320 days to marathon. Was sick for a couple days and rested from training. Today felt a bit harder - threshold running - but that makes sense since I wasn't feeling 100%.

View of two Garmin workouts, a threshold run of 37:08 averaging 8:23/mi and a bodyweight circuit workout.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

323 days to marathon. A much shorter run than a couple days ago. Still feeling the longer run a bit, but not as much as I'd have expected.

Garmin workout of 4.45 mile run at 9:09/mile pace

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I got my Garmin watch a little over two years ago to try and motivate myself to be more active. The first year I ran/walked over 600 miles. This second year I more than doubled it. Today I got the Appalachian Trail badge for tracking 3,500km (2,175 miles).

The Garmin Appalachian Trail badge for tracking 3,500 kilometers on foot.

My first month of Garmin ownership at the beginning of 2024. 66.6 miles total.

The first year of me tracking steps via Garmin, Feb 2024-Jan 2025. 664.9 miles total.

The last 12 months of my activity on Garmin, Feb 2025-Jan 2026. 1,457.1 miles

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

325 days to marathon. Second longest run of my life so far - I assume that'll change quite quickly. It's nice that 9-ish minute miles feels like a pace I can sustain almost indefinitely.

Garmin run view of 8.45 mile run at 9:08/mile pace.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

326 days to marathon. Hit a new max speed PR of 17.6mph while doing sprints! I think I could still do better - need to find a real track, but the park in Cap Hill is pretty good.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

328 days to marathon. Difficult threshold run, but I pulled through and got a new 5k PR of 24:54! Followed it up with cross training. Now for a plateful of tamale!

Garmin view of 4.52 Threshold run and a 21 minute strength workout.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

329 days to marathon. Nice near-freezing run this morning. Another easy base run and I can solidly see my "easy" pace dropping steadily. The cold hasn't bothered me much in Seattle. Even at 34F I just need long joggers; a jacket makes me too warm.

Garmin view of 4.42 mile run at 9:05/mi pace on west half of Lake Union in 34F weather.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

330 days to marathon. Extended active warmup, then 5 miles at base pace. Nice and easy.

Garmin workout record of a pre-run strength warmup and then a 5.02 mile run at 8:59/mile

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

331 days to marathon. Sprints! I ran up Cap Hill to the Seattle Asian Art Museum since there's some nice straight stretches of flat ground. I got some nice 4:20-4:30ish sprints in!

Garmin view of sprint workout around the Seattle Asian Art Museum

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

333 days to marathon. Base pace run, just over 5 miles. I've been getting a bit bored of only doing laps around Lake Union, so I decided to try staying to my workout but adding in running up/down Cap Hill. Challenging, and turned out great.

Garmin view of 5.07 mile run at a 9:18 pace

Elevation view of run showing max height of 288ft and min height of 94 feet. The jagged hill shape is approximately symmettic

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Feels good to consistently meet pace targets on these. 10 minutes at 9:15/mi bookending 16 minutes at 7:20/mi

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

334 days to marathon. Threshold run day - these seem like the hardest of the running workouts so far. Last week was 25 miles, and this week looks similar - it'll take a while for my body to adjust to this.

4.90 mile threshold run and half hour strength workout records in Garmin

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

346 days to marathon. My first "long run" though not longer than what I've been doing regularly. I assume these will ramp up slowly in distance.

A Garmin record of a 6.81 long run around Lake Union at a 9:17/mi pace.

A huge leafless tree in a park-like area by a lake.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

337 days to marathon. Walking, and some anaerobic work. Did 7 intervals of 1 minute at a 6:00 pace! This makes me think I'll be able to do a 6:00 mile soon - it wasn't an easy workout, but I had a lot of energy left after.

Garmin workout view of three walks and a 5.47 run as part of an anaerobic workout.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Afternoon walks in the cold to pick up some home essentials

Two Garmin-tracked walks, one 2 miles and another 1.31 miles

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

339 days to marathon. Did sprint work in the cold, wet, dark Seattle afternoon. If it were brighter and/or dryer I'd have sprinted harder, but at least got to ~5:30 pace for sprints safely. I ran to Volunteer park for the sprints since it has great reasonably long stretches where I can sprint 200m.

Garmin view of 4.14 mile workout with sprints.

Exhausted looking man in reflective harness and headlamp

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

340 days to marathon. Lactic threshold pace plus bodyweight cross training.

Garmin training view showing strength workout, a short walk, and a 4.29-mile run

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Always have to take a picture of the mountain when I can flying back in to Seattle

A photo of Mt Rainier from above the clouds

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Day 2 of 344 of marathon training. The squat jumps I did yesterday definitely made the starting couple miles hard. I briefly walked but I kept the target average pace of 9:15.

Garmin run display of 6.25 mile run route.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

344 days to the Honolulu Marathon. I'm starting in the "Preparation Phase", which will last until I start "real" training in mid-June. My plan is to run the marathon in 3:30, so I'll need to do consistent 8:00 miles.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Was feeling very determined to get a sub-7 minute mile today

A personal records screen from a running app. The line for "1 km" is for 3:57 and the line for "1 mile" is 6:38.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Got a 4:03 kilometer today! Should break a 7:00 mile soon, though if I can keep that pace a little longer I could do a 6:30!

View of a 2.63 mile running route with a "new record" notification.

Notification of a new 1km record of 4:03.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Hard run today! This is the time of year it's actually nice to run in Austin

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Um, hello "Daddy" from Walgreens Pharmacy

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I wasn't intending to break my 5k PR today, but when I realized I was on pace to do so, I figured I might as well.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Woohoo! Three sub-8 minute miles in a row.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Another 100-mile rate milestone passed! 1,300 miles in a year of running and walking! I'm curious as to when the rate will converge to a "normal". If I keep my current pace up, it'll be around 1,800-1,900.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Whew, 40 books for the year so far. I liked The Midnight Library, but it left me wanting more. Like the theme was reasonably explored, but there's parts that were missed but could have been very cool. Still, really well done exploration of regret and want, and how that can lead to dangerous places

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Continuing to keep up my walking. Just hit over 1,200 miles walked/run in the past year! I'm closing in on the 10k average steps daily milestone!

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social made me excited to start voting as a new Seattle resident. Moving from Texas, it's great to now live in a city/state that seems to *want* me to vote and be aware of what's going on in local politics.

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

On the bus and it's filled with people on their way to the Seattle No Kings protest!

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Nice to be starting to get involved with a local queer running group - the Seattle Frontrunners

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Will Beason @willbeason.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Obligatory Story Graph photo

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