Motivate!

Okay, so I just got home from a movie. I’m getting ready for bed, sitting topless on the couch checking my Facebook (probably TMI), and I’m about to brush my teeth when I think “Hang on a second. You haven’t blogged about the weekend run. You haven’t blogged about your awesome run this morning. What kind of blogger are you, anyway? So goddamn lazy!”

So I grabbed the last of my motivation, stuck it on my head and squished it around for a bit, and now I’m going to write for a wee bit before I head off to sleepytime. Sound good? Damn straight.

I’ve been sick on and off for the last couple of weeks. Had a cold, still have a little bit of a cough (but nothing too bad). I took it easy for a while. I stopped paying attention. But no more! I’m putting my foot down. My alarm woke me up at 5 am this morning, and rather than sinking back into strange dreams about strange deep sea creatures that live on fairy floss (which means they’re always hungry, because fairy floss melts in the ocean), I got up and put two pairs of pants on and went for an early morning jog around the lake in the dark. It was a good one. My Zombies, Run! app didn’t crap out on me.

Doh. Forgot to tell you about that. Let’s jump back in time to Saturday morning. I went for a run, nothing special or too long or too gruelling, just a 10-15 km jog to get back in the swing of things. I forgot to put my Garmin on the charge, then remembered, then the charger didn’t sit on the thing right so it didn’t charge AT ALL. So I had no garmin. But I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal because I had my Zombies, Run game to tell me how far I’d gone. Right? Nope. Had to update the stupid app because they’re taking the advance version of the app (which was for the Kickstarter backers) off the iTunes store because Apple was chucking a shit about it. So this was the last update they could provide, and they said that any subsequent bugs couldn’t be fixed.

Naturally, this is when the app starts crashing REPEATEDLY, right in the middle of missions. Three songs played at one point before I noticed there hadn’t been any story for a while, and when I got my phone out, the app had crashed completely and I had to restart. Then it crashed again, and again, and yet again. In the end, I got in about 13 km, in about an hour and a half. So not too shabby, but nothing too special either. It was so cold, my hands were numb for ages even after I got home. I forgot my handkerchief and I got a bloody nose at one point (from irritation, I think. Nothing life threatening) so I was flinging blood and snot everywhere.

I don’t think I need to tell you that it wasn’t a pretty sight.

Also lost another two toenails, but I think these ones’ll grow back. I’m fairly positive.

So cranky about the Zombies being recalcitrant, that I barely even stopped to appreciate a hilarious line in the game where this guy with a horrendously bad American accent runs off to distract the encroaching mob because he’s been bitten and he wants to save my life. And Sam Yao (he’s the radio operator, back in Abel Township) says “Was that... Ace Rimmer?”

I hope at least a moderate proportion of the people playing this game understood and appreciated that joke.

Anyway. This morning. I ran a fairly good 5km, in about 30-something minutes. I dunno. Haven’t checked my run log. Sure it wasn’t anything extra fast or extra hardcore, but it felt so good to get a run in. Didn’t really tire me out for work either, but I guess I may have been at the sick-hungry stage this afternoon. It would have been a great diet day if I hadn’t had Indian food, a couple of beers and a choc-top at the flicks this evening.

Guess you can’t win them all.