My three-day streak of nothingness continues (sort of).
The 2025 Ignorance is Bliss Tour (#stayignernt) has hit a snag in the form of no actual lumbering happening outdoors due to the extreme cold and my lack of owning “extreme” cold weather gear. I’m pretty good with the stuff I have down into the single digits, but extended time below-zero type stuff starts to be “shit for the birds,” as Grandma Helen used to say. I also have little desire to be out in such temps, especially since my camera battery would hold a charge for about 10 minutes in -4˚ temps (the temp as of 8:25 AM) and leave me with nothing to distract me from said extreme cold.
So, after I got Lola the Dog fed and saw Wifey off to work, I set about emptying my intestines of three days’ worth of the homemade rice and beans I made on Sunday that only lasted a day and a half. Sweet Jeebus, my back door is falling off the damn hinges!!!
Anyway, after dealing with all that, I started gathering my gear for a lumber, er, I mean a treadmill workout. My first in ages.
As soon as I entered the unofficial official workout room in the Not So Stankment, I was filled with overwhelming dread. It’s been a minute or two since I last “ran” (actually, it’s been 92,160 minutes), and I was a bit scared.
I put a Premier League replay on the TV (Ipswich v City), cued up a mix of Berlin techno, and started a walk as a warm-up, hoping the dread would magically disappear. It did not.
Then, with the warm-up done, I moved on to running intervals for the next three miles.
The good news is that the dread went away. The bad news is, GAHDAMN, have I let the last two and half months of election bullshit, deaths, sadness, travel, holidays, and winter gloom get the best of me, and it had my belly bouncing like a fleshy basketball made of beer, cheese, and regret. Lumbering is one thing, but turning the power to my legs back on was a real eye-opener to the work that needs to be done before spring.
Overall, I wasn’t happy with the way I felt, but I was happy to finally get some “running” miles back in my feetz and to start working on the hard part of my fat but fit “running” now rather than once spring arrives.
I don’t have any recent photos, but I do have a photo of a frozen sock I took in the Meijer parking lot about a month ago, and it was still there just a few days ago.
Later.