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Wed, Jun. 11th, 2025 12:45 pm
I saw a meteorite last night :D As I was running at Glenelg, I saw this bright white light at a weird trajectory for a plan, then realised it was going WAY faster than a plane like 3-4 times as fast. Then I saw its tail! All sparkly orange-blue-white fire, not very long but definitely visible. It was very cool :D
I've decided to put the half-hour 5k on ice. Scheduled the weekend before my birthday, but we've now hit the shitty trinity of cold, dark and wet* for doing fitness after work, and it's just not fun. Every day last week I was very much of the 'just get it over with' mindset, rather than really pushing myself to improve as I had been for the previous 5k. Particularly on days when it had been raining, just the intense Do Not Want was a real suck to get past. I managed it! But... it was also at that time nine days into winter. Sure, I've been able to push through the Do Not Want until now, but I've got three months of this shit. So that one's on ice. I'll pick it up again probably on 1 September, or when daylight savings comes back again on the first weekend in October.
I'm not giving up on fitness, not even giving up on the half-hour 5k, just rescheduling that one until probably end of spring, maybe into December, and I'll do more indoor-friendly fitness things through winter. I've got workouts on the Garmin I can do, two YouTubers who do workouts you can follow along with, and I want to give a shot at yoga and/or pilates, too. When I get back from Sydney next week I'll book some single sessions at various places around home and work, do some of them and pick my favourite to keep something up there through winter. Also keeping up the 10,000 steps a day, because I'm at a current streak of 86 days and it'd be pretty cool if I can hit 365. Walking or running under my own steam is still doable, it's just the intense stuff the training plan gets me doing that I'm struggling to motivate myself to do XP
Sydney~ is happening next week :D Amanda and I are going to see Critical Role and also Supanova, very excite.
* It started raining properly late last week 🥳 Is it drought-breaking? Remains to be seen, probably not really going to know before the end of winter, but it's proper steady, soaking rain that means I don't have to keep watering the garden, don't have to fill up a jerry can of rain water from Mum and Dad for drinking water at home and I can just get it out of the tank tap. It's great.
I've decided to put the half-hour 5k on ice. Scheduled the weekend before my birthday, but we've now hit the shitty trinity of cold, dark and wet* for doing fitness after work, and it's just not fun. Every day last week I was very much of the 'just get it over with' mindset, rather than really pushing myself to improve as I had been for the previous 5k. Particularly on days when it had been raining, just the intense Do Not Want was a real suck to get past. I managed it! But... it was also at that time nine days into winter. Sure, I've been able to push through the Do Not Want until now, but I've got three months of this shit. So that one's on ice. I'll pick it up again probably on 1 September, or when daylight savings comes back again on the first weekend in October.
I'm not giving up on fitness, not even giving up on the half-hour 5k, just rescheduling that one until probably end of spring, maybe into December, and I'll do more indoor-friendly fitness things through winter. I've got workouts on the Garmin I can do, two YouTubers who do workouts you can follow along with, and I want to give a shot at yoga and/or pilates, too. When I get back from Sydney next week I'll book some single sessions at various places around home and work, do some of them and pick my favourite to keep something up there through winter. Also keeping up the 10,000 steps a day, because I'm at a current streak of 86 days and it'd be pretty cool if I can hit 365. Walking or running under my own steam is still doable, it's just the intense stuff the training plan gets me doing that I'm struggling to motivate myself to do XP
Sydney~ is happening next week :D Amanda and I are going to see Critical Role and also Supanova, very excite.
* It started raining properly late last week 🥳 Is it drought-breaking? Remains to be seen, probably not really going to know before the end of winter, but it's proper steady, soaking rain that means I don't have to keep watering the garden, don't have to fill up a jerry can of rain water from Mum and Dad for drinking water at home and I can just get it out of the tank tap. It's great.
