#go on a run!

[fish-wifey]

ran my half marathon that I'd planned for this month 🥹🥹 time of 2:20:14 is a result I'm proud with, all conditions considered.

Long ass recap. no one has to read it or respond, but just in case someone is interested 😙

first of all: I did this weeks after my original plan. the Gaziantep race was on December 1st, but the online register didn't work. their "customer service" didn't help me one bit. I got sick at the end of November, so I figured I'll run it by myself as usual.

I knew I'd get my period today. But I ran the full mara on a period too and we balled.

Prepwise: I had pasta bolognese for lunch yesterday and it would be my lunch after the run too. For breakfast I had usual slices with nutella on one, peanut butter on the other, and some white cheese with honey.

In my running vest I had 2x 500ml water bottles (still finishing off the left overs), and a few sour patch candies!! It was so nice to eat on the run ahahah 😆 a banana with me just in case but didn't need it.

My mom tried to talk me out of running. It was dark and wet, but I told her it would be raining all week. The only cloudy/no rain day was Christmas day, and I'm cooking so it was just a no 😆

Did my stretch while it was dry, then went out !!! and it started raining lol

My jacket is water res but not proof, and my shoes were soon wet as well. But omg that jacket kept me warm for a good 2:10 hours (I got cold on the very home stretch lol).

Anyway the run was actually so nice! I got wet in my first 5k, but then the rain stopped and most of my clothing dried on the run (no luck for the shoes).

I took it slow and steady and really kept in zone 3 for the most time, even on the killer incline😭😭😭 I knew I wasn't going to go fast or PR today, so I'm extremely proud of how easy the run was and my HR zone 😊

Of all days for the app to be an ass...it was today lol

I use the nike running app and 99% do my runs with an audio guide (Coach Bennet my beloved!) but when I got my usual 1k mark, the app didn't do anything. when I looked, it had stopped at 0.16 meters (at a whopping pace of 45'10" LOL).

Deleted the run, started over, re-added the 1k manually.

The uphill was my biggest concern before I had to get past all the puddles.

OMFG did I say "WHY is there SO MUCH water!?!?!?" at least 20x

Yall need to understand that some sidewalks here are loads higher than the roads, and there's no drainage system to speak off. I was constantly ranting about the water, then calmed myself down saying "it's fine" 3x.

(also had to reroute a few times or take weird turns while watching for traffic. Blessed be, I only got splashed once on the calves, passing my nearby mall).

The incline was...fine ??? I was surprised ahahah

I usually die on this particular incline but today it was great ♡ also going up there were no puddles to speak off.

Going down I went even slower given the amount of leaves on the ground being wet. I got past 9k on my second run (10.4k total) when I noticed once more that the audio guide was quiet. Took out my phone showing 9.42k, and as I continued down, it didn't go to .43, as the pace slowed 🤡🤡

Its a nuisance, but there was nothing I could do. I stopped that run and just did one without audio guide, then listened to the same coach's podcast. It was on this that I walked for like, 30 seconds? that's all the walking I did (and walking during runs/races is fine!!!)

My posture broke down after 16k ☠️☠️☠️ I wasnt tired, just not really concentrating fully. kept having to straighten my back, relax my shoulders. My left leg is my weak one, but I wasn't hurting so we kept going.

I was going very slow and had to pick up my legs a bit as it felt that I was going backwards 🙃

Close to home my lower back hurt. I knew that my period had started 7k into the run, full on, and at the front I only felt a slight discomfort but no cramps 🥳 and now post run I don't feel anything ehehee

(run away from problems ❌️

run away from period pains ✅️)

I was literally on the last 500 meter when it started to feel cold (I know that my core warmth must have taken a dip too). All things considered, I didn't fatigue 😊 My sour gummies and water intake did the work. I ate like 3-4 sour gummies 3 times during the run? Loved it. Anyone who can't do gels, can't pay/get them, and doesn't want to eat baby food, the sour patch gummies are elite.

When I was done, a security guard from the large guarded community here came out. I had run past them when I started and then ofc when I came back. He asked if I set a record ahahah but nah

He was on my side doing a run no matter the conditions and gave me a lot of praise ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

I was kinda sad that my mom didn't support me 🙁 she tried to talk me out of running during the rainy conditions. Before I left, she said "du musst es wissen" which basically means "on your head be it". Then when I came home she asked about time/distance, immediately asking if I got really wet. I suppose today she was just a lil more focused on herself/lunch time. which is fine!!

When I went up to my beloved shower, she was disappointed that I wasn't hungry yet 🫢 Like pls let me get my lukewarm shower and fresh clothes first 😩 I'm a cold shower girly and do a lukewarm/warm shower <5x a year, and today called for one.

The best feeling post run is when you're freshly moisturised and warmly clothed out of the shower 😚😚 I ate two bowls of pasta, and after writing all this, I'm still hungry 😋 figures with 1200 kcal burned 😂

Anyway!! I'm already scared to attempt my second marathon next year 😅 I really wanna go to a cool city and run an official race 🥺🥺 I might end up being a 5hr marathoner, or I might be faster than my 4:39:13 PB.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[mroddmod]

some recent stuff i've done in magma bc im kind of addicted to using it lol

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[qqueenofhades]

Meanwhile, if you're wondering how things are going in Trumpland (even before they literally played "My Heart Will Go On," famously the theme song about a sinking ship, at his Montana rally last night), it's apparently edging into the realm of possibility that picking JD Vance, senator from the state of Ohio, could cost Trump the state of Ohio.

Delicious.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

[miraofhearts2point0]

Isha following Jinx to protect her during a suicide mission where Jinx to tries to get her away for "ruining" her plan.....where have i seen this before?

[cardentist]

hey, so people need to be aware that youtube is now (randomly) holding basic features for ransom (such as being able to pin comments under your own videos) in exchange for Your State ID/Drivers License, or a 30 Second Video Of Your Face.

not to pull a "think of the children," but No Actually. I've been making videos as a hobby since 2015 (and I've had my channel since middle school), I was a minor when I started and I'm not sure I would have understood the kind of damage something a seemingly simple as a video of your face can do.

this is a Massive breach of privacy and over-reach on google's part No Matter What, but if they're going to randomly demand a state ID or license then they absolutely should not allow minors to be creators.

google having a stockpile of identifying information on teenagers is bad enough, but the Alternative of recording your face and handing it over to be filed away is Alarming considering it opens the gates for minors who Aren't old enough to have a license.

and yes, there is a third option, but it's intentionally obtuse. a long wait period (2 months), with no guarantee of access (unlike, say, the convenience of using your phone's cameras for either of the other two), with absolutely No elaboration on what the criteria is or how it's being measured.

it's the same psychological effect that mobile games rely on. offer a slow, unreliable solution with no payment to make the Paid instant gratification look more appealing (the "payment" in this case being You. you are the product being offered).

and it's Particularly a system that (I think intentionally) disadvantages people who don't treat their channels like a job. hobbyists or niche creators who don't create regularly enough or aren't popular enough to meet whatever Vague criteria needs to be met to pass.

markiplier would have no problem passing, your little brother might not be able to. and while Mark's name is already out there there's no reason why your little brother's should be too.

something like pinned comments may seem simple, you don't technically Need it. but it's a feature that's been available for years. most people don't look at descriptions anymore. so when there's relevant information that needs to be delivered then the pinned comment is usually the go to.

for my little channel that information is about the niche series I create for. guides on how to get into the series, sources on where to find the content At All (and reliably so). for other creators it can be used for things Much More Important.

Moreover, if we let them get away with cutting away "small" features and selling it back to you for the price of your privacy, then they Will creep further. they Will take more.

Note: I have an update to this post here: [Link]

[miscling]

misc makes a chastity post

so it recently got a chastity belt and has had a few test runs with it and is reasonably confident it could survive this... maybe? chastity is intense, but it keeps being told it belongs in chastity and should be locked up and... it wants to do a gentle post to begin with, since it's its first time really going for it... and it's seen how these things have gone for others so...

anyway, we're playing a game here. every note is going to add to a timer. it's going to add a poll and you'll have until the poll ends to add notes...

the question is...

please spam, tease, and have fun with this thing as much as you'd like!

[marciaillust]

almost blown out bsky / twt / ig

[lgbtlunaverse]

"How did Shuro think he could marry Falin when he hated her brother?" you have to understand. Toshiro is from a whole different country. In his head he and Falin would move back to the Eastern Archipelago and they'd see Laios twice a year tops. You can pretend to get along with in-laws you don't like for a few days a year, people do that all the time.

The actual flaw in his plan– which shows he doesn't really understand either of the Touden siblings– is the fact that if the plot hadn't happened and Falin had for some reason said yes to his proposal, Laios would have packed his bags and moved away with them instantly.

[gunstellations]

rival battle ⚔️

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Yeah, I don't know about you, Fidds, but I'd fold at this 🙏

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[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.