I heard someone on a call the other day saying “I’ve just heard of this thing called Personal Knowledge Management or PKM” which reminded me that:

“Every day somebody’s born who’s never seen the Flintstones“

But seriously, it got me digging into when I first mentioned PKM on this blog.  And of course it was the very first post in September 2004 🙂 and then a couple of months later I went over to Amsterdam for KM Europe and took part in a PKM workshop hosted by Knowledge Board (so Ed Mitchell?) in a kind of open space form where I called a session on “trust vs suspicion, faith vs fear…aaaagh the feelings…” which definitely sounds like the sort of thing I would still do.

Ton Zijlstra was also there and he’s been one of my anchors for PKM thinking ever since, as well as being one of the stalwart bloggers who’ve kept my RSS reader alight through the quiet years (Thanks Ton!) and his post from the end of last year explaining how PKM is personal along three dimensions will form the basis of my response to my friends on that call, who are just embarking on the journey.

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I don’t think I mentioned it here, but last week I completed the Couch to 5K programme again.  The goal is to be able to run for 30 mins or 5k three times a week and that’s what I did (30 mins but not quite 5k – I’ve never managed a 30 min 5k yet).  My plan from here is to keep building on that to get back to feeling comfortable running 5k again, no matter how slowly.  Today I did 3.6k and I’ll do that another two times in the next 7 days and then see whether I can stretch up to 4k.

It feels great to have re-established this rhythm.  When I first did it 7 years ago, it was straightforward for me to run every other day.  With the passing of time (and some accumulation of mass, especially on my waistline) just having one rest day between runs is pushing it.  Having two is ideal, I think, but three runs too much of a risk that I’ll fall out of the habit – three days off followed by a cold winter morning with torrential rain would too easily stretch to four and then…

I was encouraged though when I looked up how average pace declines with age, it’s not just that I’ve gotten out of shape, I’m also a few years older.  But it would be nice to be nearer the average pace for my age than I am at the moment.