Have acquired sunburn no. 3 and 4 of this year over the weekend. (1 and 2 are souvenirs from America). Keep wondering why I, as an unapologetic hypochondriac, don't seem to possess the ability to apply sunscreen in a timely manner. Have tan now (that's probably why ( Read more... )

I went to yoga class again! (I go there twice a week now). It is marginally less ass-kicking than it was when I started (two weeks ago omg), but they make me laugh ("now do the same thing, but on one leg", "do a handstand if you like"). Awesome. (I'm the world's most unflexible person. Am still working on the whole touching my toes thing ( Read more... )

I went to yoga class for the first time! It was a pretty energetic flavour of yoga, but dude, I thought I was marginally in shape these days. It kicked my ass. I can run <20K (that's the general idea), but ask me to stay on my toes and hands for a little while & I'm defeated. Also, last time I did a shoulder stand was in 10th grade or thereabout, ( Read more... )

I realised I abandoned The Death of Bunny Munro about 50 pages before the end. Must pick up again, or what else would have been the point of working through all my protagonist-related hatred? Hope the title isn't false advertising.

I also finally got around to starting Unseen Academicals because Discworld soccer didn't seem so intriguing to me ( Read more... )

I somehow managed to hurt my knee while running (c'mon, body, we've been doing this for a while) and subsequently constructing an IKEA billy shelf (also not the first time, either) and I've been hobbling around like a pirate for two days now, and then I couldn't find a way to ice this in a proper fashion, so I earlier today I was sitting here ( Read more... )

I AM ASKING YOU ALL.

Should I do another 1) half marathon in October? 2) A 10K road race?* 3) sit on the couch?

The half would mean I'd have to get off the couch first so there will be no episodes of the kind where latin_doll falls over into a gutter half-way or takes a leisurely stroll over the finishing line. I'm moderately out of half marathon shape ( ( Read more... )

I ran in the rain yesterday. It was warm and drizzly and dark when I left and cold and rainy and even darker when I got back. I passed some punk-ish teenagers who called "hello" after me until I turned around and asked what's up. They said they just wanted to say hello? It was kind of cute in a confusing way. I suspect it was my neon pink running ( Read more... )

Interval training.

+ At dusk, in a park.

= Running through mosquito clouds at high speed with my mouth open argh I swallowed at least three and caught a fourth. With my eye. Sorry mosquitoes :( (There were other people running through the same mosquito clouds, but I flailed best! Up until sprint no. 10, after which I ran home ( Read more... )

What I did on the weekend ( Read more... )

Tales from the gym, part 1: Anyone have an idea why people see an unused machine, throw their towel over it, sit down and then start reading the newspaper while I get to hover there like a whole-body eyeroll? Yeah, I got nothing.