christmas eve jog was real good -3 celsi, other than delivery bikes no one really out and about and, most imporantly, no wind - i think close to my absolute favourite conditions
shorts and lighweight longsleeve and mittens

This past week I haven't been able to run
But have collected some 11k steps each day
Looking forward to getting back to running
Was maintaining running 3x a week ..

on my ass sick and unable to do my routine for the last few days and I hates it

Ran today a decent chunk of time.

I went straight ocd leaf mulching in my back yard for a couple of hours.

Just did my usual couple of hours walk, Nice that it wasn't raining, 5°C, but fairly breezy.
/nice to have a tailwind on the way home.

A question for Fazed lawyers:

Every morning I walk a mile with my dog. Am I legally allowed to post in this thread?

Legally, yes, but it's discouraged.

if you had said cat
you'd have blooks full and deep throated support

wrong u'd be dead af

heda gone n swallered u rite up

I don't believe either of you. Let me see your law degrees.

all of you legally have to shut up right now legally i have the docusign to prove it so shut up

Got out today and hit the track...steady walk for a mile, then plyo. Got home and did the cold plunge.
I gained 6 lbs over the last few weeks and want to lose that before my cruise on the 8th.

I plan on meeting and boning all the chicks, so I gotta get my stamina of a year old back

heading out into the at times questionable but probably best footing we gonna get for the next few days
will probably overdress a bit because i've had enough of the wind

finally back on my routine
after about a week of sick time
and it shows

Yesterday I ran
Today abs core and stretches

Foggy day, about 6°C, so wind, was nice to get out for a couple of hours without raingear and being all bundled up.

getting ready to head out for the first one run of the year shortly
hope the footing is manageab

according to my FitBit dealie, I did 5,77358 steps in 2025

/yay me

wait

no one out there tonight wind was cold but not persistent footing was fine
good start to the running year; not even sure i overdressed - i got a new face mask/neckwarmer but never had to pull it on it wasfine to just let the face go numb or heat itself
and now just finished eating a bowl of buckwheat and beef and kale and sweet potatoes - not a huge fan ofsweet potatoes i wanted to add beets but there seems to be a beet shortage for a few months at the groce
thank you for reading

no sweer potaytes?? how could u

im running on the street
feelin fine on my feet
in the cold or the heat
in the rain or the sleet
when my run is complete
and i really gotta eat
gonna make me a treat
a big bowl of buckwheat
and a little bit of meat
now that is lookin pretty neat
but i really wanted beet
the bodega was deplete
and was lookin like defeat
instead im gonna settle for potato that is sweet

mods do something about this

done

lmao bye slim

Last time I was at the gym, before today I mean, they told me that my auto-draft had stopped and I needed to pay. I didn't have a card with me so I told them I'd pay next time I was in. So today I told the lady I needed to pay and she said okay, but she wasn't able to set up an auto-draft, so she just charged me for a month. The thing is, when you do the draft, it's $5 cheaper per month. But she charged me the non-draft price, which I think is unfair. I'm not complaining though, because there's been a problem with my payment for a long time, and I haven't paid shit since October 2024. I knew, too. I was just waiting for them to say something lmao.

what's a gym

butterknife said:

what's a gym

If I 'member rightly, Gym is from the Greek word, Gymnós ,meaning Nekkid.

butterknife said:

what's a gym

ur worst nightmare

lol he fat

oops i meant i cant post right now im banned

he 2fat2banu

ohhhh a gym

Space Cat said:

he 2fat2banu

yes
but not 2fat2pinpost

Jesus.

it's a great poem slim
would be interested in a more hudibrastic version if possible, when you have time

I just hit my 2 million meters rowing milestone this morning.
That's the equivalent to almost exactly half the distance across the US from Wilmington to Barstow via I-40,
or about 1/201th of the way to the moon.

Get back to rowing, the moon ain't gonna visit itself

nice! I think a rowing machine is the next purchase here. do you have one at home or at a gym?

Home.
I have a Hydrow Wave, if you'd like a recommendation, although the normally more expensive Origin model is cheaper with the current sale going on. The build quality is solid, and it's very quiet.
If you do go with a Hydrow, be advised that while it doesn't require the subscription service ($40/month), it was and is worth it for me. Without it, you can still see the metrics for your current workout, but you won't get the audio/video of pre-recorded library of workouts with/without the athletes, a record of your sessions, live sessions, etc.

Apologies. Looks like the subscription is $50/month now. I think they knock off some if you pay for a full year instead of month-to-month though. Any number of people can set up profiles on the same account though, if more than one person in your house would be using it.

i could've used a rowing machine instead of going running tonight - footing was super slippery and unpredictable, not the icy slippery which i can deal with, but the slushy midfoot/heel random slides which make for a run where you rarely get in the groove
and you can't slow down or change direction too fast or you might slip
weather network kept saying snow in the next hour but i took my time getting ready and it had already started by the time i headed out - said scattered flurries but at -4C it's messy
eventually running on the road on the sidestreets somehow seemed less treacherous then the main roads sidewalks
but still at times felt like i was drifting side to side bouncing of one solid piece of snow across the road to another and then back like an air hockey puck losing steam or a bright green high viz half asian dvd screensaver
furthermore actually that's it rant over

Let's see slim write a song about that.

thanks zero I'll have a look
but I'm antisub and a cheap bastard
so I'll check for people chucking them out on the curb first
but appreciate the rec.
I do like the water based row machines
and i think it'll be good for my shoulder

Be sure to learn the correct technique, if you haven't already. I'm sure there are probably YT vids out there.
Before I started, I assumed it was mostly pulling with back and arms. It's more like a sequence of 80% pushing with legs while sitting up straight with arms fully extended, then transferring to core to lean back slightly, and only pulling using arms and lats at the very end of the stroke.
Once you get that down, you can shift focus to your split (time per 500 meters), which is controlled by the amount of effort you generate, and rowing at various stroke/minute rates.

Crew and rowing are far different things.

I love rowing hard for 20 minutes as a cardio thing at the gym

You couldn't pay me enough to crew again.

My wife got me a Brooks running jacket thing for Christmas. It's pretty neat, I guess. It's a super light, unlined, windbreaker type thing that's water resistant. It has a hood with some elastic on the front so it can hold onto the bill of my hat. I like that. I'm sure it cost way more than I would have been willing to spend on myself. I haven't run in it yet because it's been unseasonably warm, but I can see it helping to keep me from overdressing someday.

I have some nagging pain right where my right leg meets my groin. Makes lifting my leg feel weak and these one leg lunge things i do a little iffy.

guess I'll die

Gonna try to buy a used rower this weekend so i can switch things up a little and see if it helps