#Cycling Snack

[skannar]

Margaret Okayo the Fastest Female Time in the Boston Marathon : Pure Tenacity

Name: Margaret Okayo Achievement: Fastest Female time in the Boston Marathon Boston Marathon winning year: 2002 Boston Marathon time: 2:20:43 In the annals of long-distance running, the name Margaret Okayo shines as a beacon of resilience, determination, and extraordinary talent. Hailing from the highlands of Kenya, Okayo’s story is one that exemplifies the triumph of the human spirit over…

[heilos]

First PNGtuber puppet rig test using her profile view :D She's got a few mistakes and some stuff to smooth out that I only noticed after I exported the gif, but i'll fix those later. I have so many dinosaur related animations I wanna do with her.

[gen4grl]

you would think after all the yapping i do about these losers i would have a plethora of art uploaded … no… so here is my first kantrio post lol

i did these over the last month while watching the olympic weightlifting and jamming to kpop (stan red velvet and kiss of life BTW!!!)

[artemispt]

[cuttledreams-bugs]

First pupated darkling larva- it's happening :O

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 1, day 13

More work on the cage! It opens now :D

I've also got the start of a chain so we can hang the cage but that's not ready to get shown off yet on account of it's, like, six chain links floating in midair rn XD

[robinsnest2111]

maybe I really need to get back into carbonated water. the latest addition to the local grocery store's bottled water selection has been quite good actually (sparkling peach and sparkling lime-lemon flavour) in those 3/4 liter "sports" bottles...

[kpop-bbg]

[free-boundsoul]

Menstruation mention, in case anyone wants to avoid

Gods I want nothing more than Damien's hands on my lower stomach right now to soothe these damn cramps.

Or Vega to come around and give me a free hysterectomy since I don't plan to ever use it

[souridealist]

FFxivwrite day 7: 'morsel'

[Elilona&Alphinaud, Elilona&Scions, Estinien/Alphinaud].

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“Does it seem to you,” Alphinaud asks, ��that Elilona keeps trying to feed people?”

“Hm?” Estinien lifts his face from Alphinaud’s hair, blinking sleepily. The aetheryte journey from Radz-at-Han takes a great deal of aether, even from him, and their bed is a warm soporific nest in a Garlean cold. “It’s a refugee camp. Of course she sent something.”

“Even she could hardly cook enough alone to feed us all.” He pauses. “She’d try, wouldn’t she? If we asked her to.”

“Most likely.” Estinien squeezes Alphinaud’s shoulder, gentle in the dark. “She’s doing well, I think. She looks… well.”

“Right, she’s heading out to you quite often, isn’t she?” Only Elilona could take an aetheryte from Gridania to Thavnair and back as if it’s no more effort than crossing a city.

“I think Nidhana’s teaching her how to… do something,” Estinien says. That’s actually quite encouraging — Elilona does better when she’s working with her hands — but Alphinaud does have a point here, brought to mind by the heap of sykon cookies that Estinien brought with him.

“It isn’t only us she tries to feed,” he says. “Urianger says that when he and Thancred were in Gridania they could barely move for peach tarts and lemon muffins, and she keeps sending Tataru and Cid these mixes for Thavnairian chai. Don’t tell me she didn’t send you with something for Y’shtola too.”

“More cookies,” Estinien admits. “And she kept trying to feed me these pumpkin things. I thought maybe someone grew too many pumpkins.” He pauses. “I think that terrifying woman at the Baldesion Annex mentioned they got sent a bundle of things, too.”

“When did you even talk to Krile?” Alphinaud shakes his head. “Ah, well, that’s good to know.” Doubly so since asking G’raha about Elilona seems unkind, just now. “I’m sure she’s sent Lyse something, too, and I believe I heard she was sending something to her friends in Ishgard.”

“Well, it hardly seems you needed to ask me anything,” Estinien says, laughing against Alphinaud’s cheek. “So, what, are you afraid she’s going to give it all up and become an official culinarian? Does Alisiae think you’re being a fool?”

“She doesn’t, actually,” Alphinaud says, not without smugness. It fades quickly, and he buries a sigh in Estinien’s chest. “I just… I hope she’s all right. I worry about her.” Such simple sentences, to hold every ledge he’s watched her stand at. He’s dragged her back from too many of them. “You didn’t see her, after Ysayle…”

“I know.” His arms are a brief, tight pressure around Alphinaud’s ribs, a silent apology for silence and lost time. “We’ll keep an eye on her. For now she’s happy enough.”

***

Alphinaud gets a chance to ask Elilona eventually, when he and Alisiae catch a few days to slip away and visit. Elilona’s house is rich with the smells of sugar and carrots, and she has flour dusted across her apron and perilla oil on the blunt bridge of her nose. She blinks at him once, twice, and then laughs.

“I guess I am cooking a lot, huh?” she says. “It’s been so long since I had anywhere enough to cook in, is all. Five or six years now, I think? Since before I came to Gridania, even. So it’s nice, to be able to do this again.”

Alphinaud’s mouth goes thick with the taste of regret, there and gone. There’s so much he regrets about those first days, with the primals on one side and the Garleans on the other and Elilona driven before them all. What an arrogant, blindered fool he was. So many things that so many of them should have said, and should have asked.

Elilona is smiling here and now, though, as she looks around the gentle colors of the home she has at last. Alphinaud swallows hard and steps forward to hug her as tight as he can, his arms only half reaching around her ribcage and his face buried against her ribs. She hugs him back without a question, her hands gentle on his shoulders. He is almost certainly going to come away with a flour-dusting of his own.

Funny, isn’t it, how these things go.

[skannar]

Geoffrey Mutai Fastest time in the Boston Marathon and Beyond

Name: Geoffrey Mutai Achievement: Fastest time in the Boston Marathon Boston Marathon winning year: 2011 Boston Marathon time: 2:03:02 Geoffrey Mutai, a name that resonates with unparalleled prowess and a testament to human determination, has etched his mark on the annals of long-distance running history. Born on October 7, 1981, in the rural highlands of Bomet County, Kenya, Mutai emerged…

[phagodyke]

day has passed in such a haze.. at least I get to leave work at 4:15 on mondays yippeee

[nerochinchin]

blood hurted today, doodled waver having period cramps so i wasn't the only bitch suffering

[southeast-northwest]

my transition goal is being a middle aged cyclist with a bullshit office job who goes on bunch rides with his buddies in lycra on saturdays and hangs out at the local pub after

[brakebabe]

Had salty chips because I had chocolate earlier -> has more chocolate because I had chips -> wants more chips because I had chocolate

[makemycitybreak]

I should lose weight again