#beginner runner

[inspoxjournal]

One of my closest friends is running a 5K race on Sunday. She's a complete beginner and didn’t really start training until—well—yesterday.

She called me up asking if I'd go for a run with her. Obviously, since I'm basically a golden retriever who constantly needs to be outside, I said yes. We went for a late-night run yesterday (we did 2km), and again this evening (3km)—both of which I found super easy to complete.

Just the other day, I was wondering if I could run 5K with my current fitness level, and I think I could. My friend seems really into running at the moment, and I hope she survives Sunday and still feels the same way after the race. So, that’s a potential new hobby for me to explore. It didn’t take up too much time, and the trail we run on is right next to a river, so it’s really scenic.

Hiking, though—waaaaay more fun and relaxing!Amazing how my little hikes and walks added up to me thinking 5k is not a big deal.

[tigerfush]

I ran 5 km in just about 45 mins yesterday and I am so happy! Beginner runner training for a 5 km race, but hopefully I can run it in the morning as well as in the evenings.... but anyway, I'm happy with it. A few months ago, running for 2 mins and walking for 2 mins was all I could do. Just had to shout it out somewhere into the void.

[bandit-heart]

I’m so tired. And then I came home from work to something that had to be dealt with immediately. It’s resolved, all is well. Now I’m just trying to convince myself that the only thing worse than running when I don’t feel like it would be to skip a run because I didn’t feel like it.

[jaeshoney]

i didn’t wake my youngest brother up to go running with me this morning and he was slightly upset/irritated

[umfazi-wephepha]

W5D3 done. Challenging but good.

Might fuck around and move on to week 6 or run outside

[dirs91]

Focusing this last couple of months. Sketching the kind of life i want in 2025 and beyond.

[phipiohsum475]

This last week I have had two potential setbacks in my goal to run two more 5Ks this summer.

The first was last weekend, when I tripped and fell (because I was fiddling with my phone trying to get my stupid Bluetooth work) and managed to skin my knee, my forearm, and take a gouge of skin out of my hand.

It's been a long time since I've skinned a knee.

However, as far as running injuries go, this one's relatively benign, and I was able to brush myself and keep running the rest of the way.

The second was that I came down with a nasty cold on Sunday night. Thankfully, given my work schedule, I don't typically run Mondays, Tuesdays, or Thursdays. But I did miss running on Wednesday. And given who I am as a person, I was worried that if I missed a day or two, I might spiral. But not only that I go running today, I did a faster pace than I've ever done!

Two minor setbacks down, and I'm still going.

I think what I am learning with all of this is that sometimes, with my ADHD, I have to overcommit to give myself the necessary urgency and panic to make sure I get shit done. If I had waited to sign up for a 5K once I knew I could do it, I'm not sure it ever would have happened. So the real question is, how can I apply this to other parts of my life?

[twinkletwinklelittlefartxd]

More coach z slop (tw for freaky art I felt bored so pls don't yell at me /hj)

[andy1687manga]

I’m posting this because my cousin is so proud of his drawings and ask me if I could post them and I was literally tears because it’s the first time he drew the looney tunes and in digital.

The thing is I was babysitting him because his parents were dinning so I said of drawing the looney tunes from memory as a game ( spoiler I was the only one that actually didn’t use references). I don’t know, I just found very cute how proud he was and now he’s showing my mobile phone to everyone because I use them as wallpapers. Things of being the eldest cousin.

Also posting my drawings because Daffy and Porky are very cute

[honeysweets333-2]

POV: you’re Stefan

[bandit-heart]

I’ve only been running for three or four weeks, but I can already see some muscle definition returning!

[kaeuhhh]

Theres something about the concept of cyberspace in general that I find terrifying yet endearing.

Maybe its the fact that as William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, describes Cyberspace: it is a collective, consensual hallucination.

One I can use to escape from the harsh and bleak reality of this world, one of pure freedom. The current state of the world is pretty bad, but cyberspace stays static and unchanging in its beautiful state of mystique. In Cyberspace you can practically do whatever, there really is no rules in cyberspace to limit yourself from being you.

I literally just want to upload my mind into the web and just be.

There will be no trace of my existence other than a blinking light in the vast void that is cyberspace <3333

[grittyrunners]

The Hoka Cielo-X1 😍

Funky design ✅

Super propulsive ✅

Review at grittyrunners.co.uk

[hedge-rambles]

I feel this may not fully register with American readers who aren't overly familiar with how small a kilometre is: It's about 5/8 of a mile.

To put it in more useful context though: Do you know how long it would take an average healthy adult walking at a "comfortable pace" to travel 1km? About twelve and a half minutes.

Not me though. See, I'm a fast walker, terrible at running but I walk good. Wanna take a wild guess at how long it takes me to walk a kilometre at my normal pace?

Periodically, I remember how absolutely fucked up the necromancers in TLT are meant to look. Like, necromancy does an absolute number on people physically.

Harrow is "rather small and feeble".

Necromantic Ianthe is "the starved shadow" of her non-necromantic twin.

Our first description of Palamedes is "a rangy, underfed young man" who is "gaunt".

Silas is "knife-faced...He had a necromancer build."

Ianthe parodies make-over scenes in House novels with "if the hero’s a necromancer it’ll be described like, ‘His frailty made his unearthly handsomeness all the more ephemeral'"

Jod acknowledges to Wake that even small children with aptitude would look odd to non-House eyes: "“I have access to any number of cute pictures of necromantic toddlers with their first bone. They don’t make for fat-cheeked roly-poly babies, but they’ve got a certain something."

In As Yet Unsent, Judith brags about her previous physical fitness: "I could run a kilometre in ten minutes, which was among the fastest for my adept group in the junior reserves." Which is about double the time you might expect for a physically fit woman her age.

In non-necromancer-friendly New Rho, Harrow's body is mistaken for a child's and has to be explained as a result of starvation and trauma to seem plausible: "Pyrrha explained without missing a beat that what with everything Nona had gone through she had been ill and still didn’t eat very much, which was why she was so knobbly and undergrown. The nice lady said that yes, many of the children had problems like that, but it was still hard to imagine Nona was anywhere over fourteen, wasn’t it?"

Tamsyn Muir's descriptions of the Canaan House gang on Tumblr back this up: "Judith is somewhat less completely scrawny than other necromancers on the cast, though she should be less built than Marta is", Palamedes is "seriously underfed" and "bony", Harrow is "scrawny".

And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head - I'm sure there's more.

Anyway, necromancers aren't slender in a conventionally attractive way, they're gaunt in a concerning way...and probably the only reason no one instantly clocked that Coronabeth wasn't a necromancer was because they all just thought it was par for the course that a Third House princess would have had a lot of plastic surgery flesh magic.

[ijstwnttbtl]

Marathon Training

Day 1

Yesterday I began training for the city marathon which will be held in October. I’m definitely out of shape and medically obese.

I started by going to my apartment gym in a bright color workout set which was a mental workout in itself. There was one person in there finishing up their workout and talking on the phone.

I nodded and went over to the treadmill. I’ve used a treadmill before but this one was a bit fancier than the ones I’ve used so I was struggling a little to get things started.

I added an incline an started with just a slow walk, working my way up. I was honestly quite nervous to actually run on the treadmill so the most I got to was a pretty fast speed walk that was almost a jog.

Though I didn’t actually run, I did focus on my breathing because I know that will be my second biggest hurdle after mental work.

I went for about two mills at about 15 minutes per mile.

I do think I’ll have better luck just running around the neighborhood. I just need to find a good little route to explore. Maybe I’ll have my boyfriend tag along on his bike.

Somethings I notice were;

1. I need to work on breathing control. I already know when i actually run, I’m going to overthink my breathing.

2. I need better shoes. The shoes I have right now are okay, but I think I tied them too tight because the outside edges of my feet were in soo much pain after.

3. I already know I’m going to need a better diet, been meaning to focus on that. Just in a bit of financial struggle right now.

4. I need to figure out what to focus on. Am I just looking ahead into space, do I need music/podcast. Maybe a metronome in my ear, lol.

5. Further down the line, I will need to get new/better clothes. Things I feel good in, that fit properly and work efficiently for what I’m trying to accomplish.

Over all, I’m happy I started this journey, though it’s slow, I think it’s good. The mental block of just starting was a big accomplishment in itself. Now to just keep going and improving.

[twinkletwinklelittlefartxd]

I felt bored so here's some strong sad fanart (idk what to make him do so I just made him nervous and feeling pressured) And I also made some doodles 😂😂🫱

Idk how TF do I draw him🥀🥀