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Today’s Workout: Dang it…

I’ve been talking around getting back into running and while I have c25k, I went to download c210k, feeling particularly ambitious. And I thought it was a glitch that after the first few runs, you have to pay for the pro version. I’m thinking I did something wrong and nope! I went to the reviews and it’s been changed. Back in 2020 during lockdown, I was doing it just fine for free. I don’t mind having to watch ads or whatever but nah, I’m not paying for that. I already pay for Zombies Run. I’ll just use their 5k and 10k trainer. 

I was out of the things I usually use for my Itaki and I worked late so I brought some low-sodium ramen for lunch and made salad for dinner. I wasn’t ambitious enough to get up and make anything for breakfast; I just slept in and I have no regrets about it.

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Today’s Workout: Easy does it

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I decided on a nice, chill run today before work so I don’t do anything to upset my stomach again. I feel okay but I’m a bit paranoid. Spending hours running back and forth vomiting will do that to ya.

I thought about having something for breakfast but I let my stomach chill out until lunch and had a sandwich. I think the bread helped because dinner sat just fine. It always shakes me up to be that sick so, It takes me a few to get back to normal. Having a run did really help. It felt familiar to be on the treadmill and moving my body. My food is gonna be chaotic for a bit since I’m trying to clear out my fridge so it’s easier for me to replace it when Black Friday rolls around. Should I spend the money? No. Is my current fridge making odd noises? Yup. Time for it to go.

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Today’s Workout: Stages

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Like a lot of people, I’m cycling through the various mourning for recent events but what I seem to be feeling the most is anger. I’m channeling that into getting fit, getting strong, working harder, and getting armed. Running and cycling will help me with endurance and I have resistance bands to get stronger.

I honestly wasn’t very hungry given… EVERYTHING. But thinking about food, I’m going to make more time for gardening to save money so maybe the bok choy you see me eating I would have grown myself! Who knows? I should totally grow white onion since I use it so often but we shall see. I am doing a lot of overtime in the winter and if my sales get better, I won’t have to take so much and have more time to grow food. I have been working on decluttering my yarn:

These scarves will be in the shop soon and I have larger projects in the works. Things that are a little more complicated and take more time. But, there is more to come!

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Today’s Workout: Disassociate

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I don’t have much so say. What is there to say? I guess I better make sure I get all my medical stuff in order as soon as possible.

I tried to time making dinner around my run. Yeah, it’s a salad but I made food tor my kid and for tomorrow. Honestly, I wasn’t very hungry. 

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Today’s Workout: Iiinnn Spaaccee

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This mission has an Aliens feel with the synthetic humans and such. I like it! I’m a sucker for good scifi. As for the run itself, it was touch and go towards the end because my arm hurts (I’m getting some bad carpal tunnel… Really not fun) but my arm isn’t what I use to run. I just told myself to get over it. This will be my last workout of the week, other than some walking, since I have so many damn chores to do and editing to get done. I guess my biggest challenge will be finding the chance to actually rest my hand.

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As it was my late day, I had to prep lunch and dinner so, I made some steak and rice to go with the tray of roasted vegetables I’d made earlier in the week. I’m trying to have more variety in what I eat and lean into protein and vegetables. Basically whatever I get in my farm share box, I bake and put into my rotation. Even though my kid doesn’t like it, I do. I think it’s interesting to eat all these new things. 

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Today’s Workout: Awww, that’s it?

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I was enjoying this story! I’m kinda sad it’s over but I think it was great overall. Then again, I’m biased because I love this app in general.

As for the run itself, It went just fine. The only real pain I have in in my right hand and I think I’m getting carpal tunnel. It makes sense since I’m on a computer all day and all my side gigs involve either a computer, my Freewrite, regular writing, or needlework; all done with my right hand. I’ve dealt with tendonitis before so, I’ll be keeping my hand in a brace for awhile, I have topical and internal pain killers, and I’ll be taking as many breaks as I can. The last thing I want is surgery or to be in pain all the time. I’ll make sure to take good care of myself until this goes away. What sucks is I had so much needlework I wanted to do but my hands are in no shape to crochet or knit right now.

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Today’s Workout: Long Day

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Even though I’m off today, I still got up to run before I started all my chores and errands. I have a long string of workdays ahead of me with some overtime so to make things easier on myself, I did as much cleaning and cooking as I could in advance. That way I can just reheat something healthy rather than end up ordering something to save time.

As for the workout itself, this was the start of week 4 of C25K. That means the workouts and intervals are getting longer. This run went just fine. In fact, I thought it was too easy by the end of it. My only issue is my period makes my muscles and joints hurt whether I’m working out or not. It’s not soreness I earned, it just exists in the background almost taunting me with my inevitable aging. This month isn’t as bad as some others and I think that’s because I didn’t stop. I stayed on my workout schedule even though I was overtired and kinda bitchy.

Also, I ended up removing Google Fit from my home screen to prevent myself from even accidentally opening it and having all my steps vanish. It’s still logging my workouts and running in the background but it doesn’t “adjust” unless I open it.

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Today’s Workout: Time to go shopping?

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It’d been awhile since I did the different missions in the app and this one is interesting so far. Wouldn’t recommend it to people who don’t like spiders to the point where just hearing about them will bother you but the story of investigating why their god has forsaken this small village is cool.

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There’s no pictures of food today but a moment of silence for my favorite workout pants. Apparently, my thighs are too powerful and have destroyed the seams. I dunno if I should bother to get new ones or just use the once I’ve got even though they don’t fit as well as these did. I probably won’t. I’m trying to hold on to as much money as I can because October is always an expensive month for me; with Samhain and NYCC, and other various Fall things. And of course funding my kid’s Call of Duty addiction.

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Today’s Workout: Only?

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Despite getting in my run before I started in on all my chores for the day; it felt like I didn’t get anything accomplished. When I sat down and listed out what I’d done, I was forced to realize that I did a lot even if there were things I didn’t get to. I was hoping to get to a bunch of reviews but, I ran out of time by the end of the day and I just fell into bed. It was hard to keep thinking “Oh, I only did” when the list of things after that was fairly long.

Of course since I ran and walked around doing stuff, it was a high steps day but I didn’t feel overly sore. Regular sore and once I’d laid out what I did all day, pretty proud of what I did instead of being bummed out by what I didn’t do. The scale still isn’t moving but, my scale takes other measurements and my body fat percentage is down! I take that as a very good sign. I didn’t take any pictures of my food but I ate decently. I did order food but the portions are always so big, I never finish them.

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Today’s Workouts: SPINE

Since the dishes were left overnight (ugggghhhh), it was easy for me to get up early to make sure the dishwasher was running before I went to run myself. I’m still using C25K as a guide and decided that maybe I’ll go to C210K after this. We’ll see because those workouts are LONG. Fitting those into the day is hard. I had no problem with them when we were in lockdown and I was working from home. I get an hour lunch so a 45 min run is no biggie since there’s no commute and if I don’t have time to shower, nobody’s around to care. Now I spend a good chunk of the day out of the house. I dunno. I’ll see when/if I get there. And I did the stationary peddler later on in the day. My thighs were wobbly but, so worth it.

Since I was up, I had another one of those awesome croissants for breakfaste and finally tried out the black tea concentrate I bought. I really like it. I tend to favor unsweetened tea anyway and it was so damn refreshing after my workout. All the dishes were finished, I prepped a salad to bring for lunch and my usual Itaki dinner. I tried out a new brand of sardines with the salad and, I gotta say, I have the weirdest “icks” about food. I like to eat sardines but seeing the tail on and the spine of the fish coming out while I ate freaked me the fuck out. There’s just… a SPINE there! And I’ve eaten whole fish around the bones before. I dunno why in THIS particular instance it bothered me but, it turned the entire meal into like, a pill I needed to take. Not gross but not great either. There’s a reason I usually stick with tuna or grilled chicken/steak in my salads. Less likely to encounter surprise spines.

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