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Went for the 8km today!

I ran for all of The Mighty Fall, Young Volcanoes, I Don’t Care and half of (Coffee’s For Closers). I still hate running! But I don’t feel quite so much like I’m dying when I go for a whole song most of the time. Hating with a fiery passion, but not dying, much.

Saturday will be my first offical event run with actual other human beings. It’s the Rainbow Run for marriage equality. I will not be required to run, as the event suggested walking would be fine. It appears it will be in a park, not on a street, so that makes me feel better. It might be raining! Which the fundies will think is a sign from god (seriously, they pray for rain on parade day every year) and which I imagine the people running will think is nicer than the 40C+ temps we had a couple of weeks ago. I have been assigned purple, which I am incredibly pleased with. I plan to go for the whole 6km.

Today’s music: Save Rock & Roll and Folie a Deux by Fall Out Boy
Today’s weight: 72.2kg

8k today! Ran for 2m30s minutes of White Noise, 2m of 21st Century, all of Listen Up Suzie (2m8s) and all of I’m Not Okay (3m8s).

Today’s Music: White Noise by The Living End and May Death Never Stop You by My Chemical Romance
Today’s Weight: 71.7kg

Fall Out Boy today! I did three runs – all of The Mighty Fall(3m32s), all of Thriller(3m29s), and all of Thnks fr th Mmrs(3m23s). I could have probably gone for the full 8kms, because my ride was late, but I couldn’t have known that so I stopped after my third run at 6.75km.

Today’s Music – Save Rock And Roll and Infinity On High by Fall Out Boy
Today’s Weight – 72.4kg

Then Chicken Caesar Salad for dinner. Actual serving size was about twice that size, but I forgot to take a picture until I’d eaten a bunch. Yes, I know that’s enormous, but I’d never made it before and didn’t realise the volume until we plated up. Balance of ingredients was good, though, so I just have to make a half-portion of everything next time. 😀

6.5km today. And I did three runs. I ran for ALL of I’m Not Okay (3m8s), half of Mama (2m20s) and half of Planetary Go! (2m). And I survived!
When I got home, I had a shower and used my bar of Rock Star for the first time (which I LOVED) and had a hummus, vegetable and salmon cake wrap and felt very virtuous.

Today’s music: May Death Never Stop You – My Chemical Romance
Today’s weight: 72.6kg

Short walk today, with a run for nearly all of Planetary Go! (about two and a half minutes maybe?). Then I went on the machines and did my first strength training of the year. I did the whole three sets, though I was about six minutes slower and some of the weights were lighter than I’d worked up to before I stopped. The three rotations took me forty-six mintues.

Today’s music: Danger Days – My Chemical Romance
Today’s weight: 72.6kg

Started out today at 6.4kph, notched up each song until I hit 7kph, ran for two minutes of I’m Still Breathing (until I couldn’t), dropped back to 6.5kph, notched up again to 7kph, ran for 1.5mins, dropped back to 6.5kph, notched up until 6.9kph when my ride arrived.

(Ignore the max speed, I hit the wrong button at the beginning.)

Today’s music: Revolution Radio – Green Day
Today’s weight: 72.6kg

Went for the 5k today while Mum and @kath-ballantyne went to the pool. Started out at 6.4kph then in the last half bumped the speed up a little at a time until I hit 7kph. Actually did a little bit of running at that speed. Didn’t time it, maybe three or four minutes? Until I started feeling a little wheezy and hated everything, anyway.

Have a post-workout selfie. (Tired) autistic punk gym aesthetic.

Today’s music: American Idiot – Green Day
Today’s weight: 72.6kg

Yesterday felt easy. Today was a hard, dogged slog, with the internal chant of ‘ten more minutes, now ten more, now ten more.’ Started out and did about half of it at 6.4kph, then dropped to 6.0kph for the remainder. Honestly wanted to give up after the first kilometre, so I don’t know what it says about me that I was stubborn enough to push on for another sixty seven-odd mintues.

I also worked out I take about 14 steps for every ten metres, which I will use to calculate average steps per walk at some later time when I can think.

Today’s music: 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
Today’s weight: 71.8kg

Well, I did my first 8k of the year. Did about 7.25k of it at 6.4kph, then dropped it to 6kph for the final 0.75k. Did this despite the ambient temperature in the gym being at least 30C because their aircon was NOT keeping up with the heat outside, and despite the blister on my heel I felt from about 1.8k that wound up about an inch across.

And then I had KFC for dinner. Which I haven’t had since October, so it’s not as bad as it could be if it was a habit, but still.

So, right now I regret my choices, but at the same time REALLY DON’T regret my choices.

(Seriously, the buzz from burning off my anxiety adrenalin, and the food were both SO GOOD…)

Today’s music: Danger Days by My Chemical Romance
Today’s weight: 72.6kg