Precor Elliptical, 30'; 15' with two 2-lb. handweights, keeping my strides per minute >120 and often >130.
Ten minutes rowing, 30 strokes per minute. I think.
I am exactly halfway through Ulysses, 500 lines into the Oxen of the Sun episode. I would have no idea what is going on without the criticism and annotations, and I don't have much even with it. The criticism tells me this episode happens in a lying-in hospital, and I doubt I would know that by the text alone. There is finally mention of Leopold's son--that I got. The criticism says that Stephen is being borne of English, and that explains the Middle English touches throughout the first 500 lines. I'm grateful to remember as much of Chaucer as I do.
The sentences bear only slight resemblance to English syntax, so I read this section aloud until my mouth went mealy (that's why only 500 lines). That forces me to read slower, of course, and the words do sort themselves into clauses more aloud than they do on the page. But not so much more.