#800s

[artschoolglasses]

Bossed penannular brooch, found in Ireland, 9th-10th Century

From the British Museum

[ola-na-tungee]

Impressions of an early medieval farmstead Pics taken in Lauresham, which is an open-air laboratory for experimental archeology in Lorsch, Germany - and the absolute best workplace of all time

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Pillow, 800s, China.

[cenestpasisa]

saint joan of arc fillet lace patterns from the 1913 book 'le filet ancien au point de reprise II'.

[andbesidesalltheanimalsweredead]

9th Century Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate

Assassin's Creed Mirage Concept Art by Edouard Noisette

[runveganwankerrun]

Wed 30th Nov '22

For someone who says the numbers on the scales aren't the be all and end all, I'm pretty fucking obsessed with the numbers on the scales! This morning I got my lowest number since I started blogging on 12 Sept, when I was 172.4lb. Today I was 162.6lb. That's decent! I'm happy. Getting close to a stone off.

It was my club 800s interval session at the track tonight. Damn, that was tough. Twice round the track is soul sucking. Hard enough to go round once, while you're fresh, but it's hell to know you've got another lap to do. (Imagine doing a track 10,000m! That'stwebty-five fucking laps!) On top of that Coach wanted me to do 4 mins 40 secs per interval. I wasn't sure I could attain that, but thought I could give it a decent shot. However. As my bad planning would have it, it looked like my Garmin was out of charge, so it was a no no for tonight. Well damn! My Samsung is no good as a running watch except for basics. It's definately no good for intervals. It was my only option, and just marginally better than nothing. It turns out, the Garmin might have had enough charge, it was just that the battery indictor showed as empty. When I plugged the watch in to charge, it was saying 47%. I might have to send it away to be looked at. The long and the short of it is, I have no proper stats to give Coach in my run report.

The session was a good news, bad news situation. Good news, I ran the session, I ran faster than if I was on a full on run, and I managed to do four reps in the twenty-five minutes. Recovery was full standing recovery, no jogging or walking it out, standing still for half the time it took to do the 800m. Bad news is, as inaccurate as my timing was tonight, I reckon it took me five mins or a litttle longer to complete each rep. Well short of what Coach wanted. So i pass because I ran the intervals, I get an epic fail on pace. Blah! I went, I ran. I'm happy with that.

Food was good today. Porridge bars for breakfast, raw stuff for lunch, veg soup after club. I snacked on tinned lentils sprinkled with nutritional yeast before club. Hey! Don't knock it till you've tried it. It gives me the savoury hit that I want and staves off hunger before running, without being too heavy.

All in all, a good day. And marcothon starts tomorrow. I'll explain that then. Ah, a cliffhanger! Mwah ha haaa!

[cryptocism]

It would have taken another immortal to keep up with him.

so i haven't read the books but i did read the Devil's Minion chapter and this part made me laugh out loud:

[lunamarish]

James Tissot, Evening (1878), Detail

[annemariearcher]

"HuA ChEnG StAlkEd XiE LiAn fOr 800 YeArS—"

Hate to burst your bubble, but in order to stalk somebody, you actually have to know where they are.

[artschoolglasses]

Bossed penannular brooch, Irish, 9th-10th Century

From the British Museum

[qifreyplushie]

can i see your necklace for a second, your highness? ^__^

[lycanthrop-ee-art]

werewolves in love <3

[runveganwankerrun]

Tue 29th Nov '22

And it's 164lb again. What the fuck is my body playing at‽ 🤣 No matter. It's all good. Strava keeps flagging up runs from two years ago and not only are they significantly faster than today's pace, but I was approx two stone lighter. No wonder I was faster. I will be there again!

I was supposed to meet Sonic after work for an easy 5k. That plan didn't come to pass. My first train home was cancelled and the second was ten minutes late. I could still have met her, there's no point lying to myself, but it would have been tight for time. I should have just delayed by ten munites. That would have given me the time to change and have the requisite pre run shit. But I figured I'd take a rest day. I've just run four days in a row, and I have 800m intervals at club tomorrow, so a break would be good.

I'm nervous of the 800s. After giving Coach my splits times from the 200s last week, this is the first time he's given me a target pace for intervals. He's asked for 5:50 per km. That means a single 800m, or two laps of the track, should take me four minutes and forty seconds.

Sounds fucking fast! It's so weird to think that at one time I'd have found that super slow! But enough! That's not where I am now, and there's no shame in that! Live in the now!

[eyes-of-nine]

pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

[gojosbf]

rip king of curses you'll not be missed

[aloekat]

his ass is NOT grant o’brien!!!!