#middle-distance running

[humans-are-tasty]

[whatsthisascianbullshit]

So I've been speed-running Booboo through the Heavensward with his silly little hat after the ARR skip I got and have been breaking my shit laughing at when the game force-removes his silly little hat.

spoilers below the cut (also long ass post)

Come out of The Vault: hat. Just a few scenes later in the same cutscene: remove hat. Too sad to have silly hat.

Strolling into a dining hall: hat. Again, mere moments later in the Same Cutscene: No hat. Too scary for hat.

Saving Estinien? Serious business. No hat.

Facing down the other 3 city states in a war games? Serious! Business! no hat allowed >:/

You know what's not serious?? Apparently??? Going on what is almost certainly a date with one of if not the most powerful man in Ishgard. And receiving a gift from a mourning father. The gift being the shield that broke protecting Booboo the idiot sonboy.

And you know what's absolutely Not a serious moment at all?

I love this game

[epickiya722]

It is 2024 now. If you are still calling Izuku a "stalker", I do not trust you.

[afrotumble]

Sabina Chebichi belonged to the Elgeyo people of Kenya’s western highlands. Born in Trans Nzoia and the second oldest of nine children, she lived in a mud hut and helped to tend the cattle on the family farm while doing other household chores. Chebichi would rise from her humble beginnings to earn acclaim in the world of sports.

In the early 1970s, she stood out from among her fellow school runners. The 14-year-old from Milimani Primary School near Kitali shocked athletic pundits during a meet organized by the Kenya Amateur Athletics Association in Kericho in May 1973. In that major Brooke Bond-sponsored meet in Kericho, Chebichi won her race barefoot and in a bright green petticoat as she did not have the minimum athletics equipment — running clothes and shoes — which many of her schoolmates were competing in.

But not having a proper athletics kit made no difference to her results. In fact, she ran the women’s 800 meters in 2 minutes 16.8 seconds, and the 1500 meters in 4 minutes 40 seconds. These were times that were already within measurable distance of the world records at the time, reports said.

After Chebichi’s green petticoat had earned her the name ‘petticoat princess’, Feisal Sherman, who was Secretary of Kenya’s Amateur Athletic Association (currently Athletics Kenya), sent her running kit and proper shoes. During this period, Kenyan newspapers and sportswriters couldn’t get over Chebichi, who had become Kenya’s newest and youngest running star.

And as the 1973 season progressed, Chebichi continued to win hearts and capture media attention while breaking records. That year, she recorded some of the fastest times in Africa for 800 meters and 1,500 meters. In Sardinia, on an Italian tour, she set a new record for the island of 2 minutes 12 seconds for the 800 meters event, Reuters reported.

And what was perhaps her defining moment was when she won the bronze medal in the 800 meters at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. This made her the first female from Kenya to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Courtesy of Tee Saigon (Facebook)

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

My mom always complaining about how I never spend time with her.... ma'am the last time we had a serious conversation you told me you thought i was making traumatic memories of my childhood up just to demonize you

[pixeldinostorytelling]

*crashes into the inter-dimentional conference room all the runners 5 hang out at, immediately faceplants on the floor. a small popup over my head reads "just ran s4m22"*

[phonydiaries]

Me every single time I see That Gif™️ of Pinocchio

[dahyun]

my cats are accepting the new cat better than i expected!!!!! yay

[shint0buri]

I need someone to inject "Like This" directly into my veins, please and thank you

[tornadodyke]

me before walking around my new university campus: well it won't be too bad. i'm going to this university because it's cheaper anyway.

me after walking around my university campus: i should have paid triple for one of the two smaller colleges closer to my house

[fullmetalscullyy]

i do 2 run/walks in 3 weeks and my knee joints are done. they're out. they're breaking down.

like stop!! being so dramatic!!! and let me live!!! 😭

[dreamersscape]

Does it feel like life is permanently set to extreme hard mode and I still feel super crappy greater than 90% of the time? Yup. But! Emboldened by our relative success with last year's tomatoes, we have given it another go and have added a little pepper plant friend for them. :)

(It may look like the peppers aren't doing as well as the tomatoes, but it cannot be overstated just how bananas this plant's growth chart has been; it's determined to escape the confines of its basket-cage; it has to be constantly rotated so it doesn't completely lose the battle with gravity; I only took this picture the other day and it already looks SO outdated. Can't stop, WON'T STOP.)

[buttdonalds]

friendly reminder shoplifting doesn’t hurt companies as much as you think it does and instead inspires companies to divest and close shop in affected areas which directly affects your community. so by shoplifting you’re really giving a bigger middle finger to your neighbors who work there for a paycheck/insurance/to be able to exist in this world and to the people who access whatever the goods in the store is (heaven forbid if it contains a pharmacy or contains fresh produce and is the last grocery store preventing an area from becoming a food desert).

too much shoplifting = companies closing locations, small hit on them = your community losing access to jobs, food, resources, medicine, etc., large hit for you

care more about your own people than about giving the middle finger to big corporations please. shoplifting isn’t the power move you think it is.

[abandoned-as-mustard]

my latest hyperfixation: armchair diagnosing my peers. oh, you thought you could just exist around me. sorry. here's a nice seat on this round disk, it's totally not a petri dish or anything. can you hear electricity?

[afrotumble]

Mary Moraa of Kenya wins the 800m in 1:58:72 at the Rabat Diamond League.

Congratulations!