Kessel Running

I'm Megan, and I battled a brain tumor for six years. Now that I'm 25 and it's gone, I want to get in shape and become a badass. This is @theknightofwren's  training for Disneyworld's Star Wars Dark Side Challenge in April 2017

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Thorsday’s Check in 7/ 7/16

Pokemon Go is finally out! meaning that on top of running away from zombies during my interval training I’m going to be trying to catch pokemon on my runs now. 

unfortunately my data ran out during the first 5 mins of my run. 

But that’s ok because I found a Bulbasaur on my bed when I got home!

As far as my actual run, a zombie chase during my interval training portion made me have my fastest kilometer time yet, I was swearing and yelling “Evade! Evade! EVADE!” the whole time.  kinda like this:

as far as Season 1 of the story goes, I definitely don’t trust Runner 8, She’s shady AF with all the New Canton stuff and probably has some weird strain of Zombie virus that keeps her coughing all the time. every time I have a mission with her I keep expecting her to turn on me. 

Also did Day 2 of Darebee’s 30 Day Ab’s program. it was basically a lot of planks like this: 

thank god for 15 mins of post workout Yoga!

Anyway, on to the check in: 

weight: 172 lbs

Kilometers run this week: 3.3

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Wednesday Warriors

Sorry for the lack of updates, between Finals and Anime Expo 2016 I was too busy to keep this up. I didn’t keep working out during the “break”, but I did keep up the new water intake and light hatha yoga a couple times a week to keep me flexible so it’s not a total crapshoot. 

food intake has been half and half, and thats not good. as every single fitness thing i’m looking at says “change is made in the kitchen.” being consistent there is what’s going to make or break this goal of mine for me in the end I think. 

anyway on to the good news! on my “off” days from running training I found a friend who wants to work out and work mostly upper body with swords! today we did the Darebee Dance of Dragons workout at a level one and though my arms arent dead today i know i’m going to feel it tomorrow. We also started day 1 of the 30 day ab challenge through Darebee as well so will def have to post before and after pics next time. totally zoned this morning. 

In other news, my running costume came in the mail today!!!!

to the surprise of no one I decided to go with Captain Marvel after all. 

iglow running on etsy did an amazing job and here’s what it looks like!

it’s so comfy and pretty and i dont’ want to take it off

super excited to take this out on a test run to see if it chafes anywhere 0_o

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6/16/16 Thorsday Check In: I SAW A PARROT!!!

First off, the most important order of business, ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! 

so i’m going to be doing this:

and not counting the calories.

also i’m going to see Finding Dory today! 

ANYWHOSEN:

Thorsday check In. 

get it? THORSDAY?

Shut up, I’m hilarious. 

The idea is to do some kind of progress report every Thursday and free my other updates to be reviews of what exercises i’m doing, or funny videos, or maybe something else comics/fitness related. I’m not sure, i’m still trying to figure this blog thing out.

So here goes!

Age:25

Weight: 174.4 lbs

% of fat: 29.9

% of muscle: 36.1

km this week: 6.9

Personal Record: 11.41 min/km

Cool things that happened this Week: Today is my Birthday, I got a massage yesterday so I can move my neck, On today’s run I saw a runner going in the opposite direction and we high fived, got to pet multiple dogs, like 5 of them, and I SAW A GUY WALKING WITH A PARROT ON HIS BACK/SHOULDER!!!!

Next week: Start tracking food consistently, drink a gallon of water a day.  After today of course. 

NOW OFF TO SOME FUN BIRTHDAY TIME!!!!!

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Why is Captain Marvel my banner right now? especially if i’m probably going to do Black Widow or Jean Grey’s green Phoenix outfit for the half marathon?

Because I identify with a particular arc of Carol Danvers’ story a lot.

See back in the good ol’ Marvel 616 Scarlet Witch kinda went like this one time

and accidentally started a whole new reality, called House of M -

Wait! Where are you going? Stop! This is relevant, I promise!

Hang with me, I’m getting there. 

ANYWHOSEN. 

Carol Danvers in the 616 was a core member of the Avengers and sometimes the X-Men, and has a freaking AWESOME power set, but she always got sidelined or worse, put into an awkward alien son/love interest subplot that we aren’t going to talk about ever again. (Check out Jay and Miles X-plain the X-men episode 17, The Island of Dr. Corbeau for an awesome discussion of how this arc is not okay and sexual violence against women in comics)

But Carol has always risen above the crap that life hands her. Always.

See in the House of M universe that Scarlett Witch created, Carol Danvers was the best superhero in the world. She had her crap together, had the best PR team, was beloved by all, saved the world like a one woman avengers team multiple times. 

But then House of M ended, the world was restored to what it was, what it really was.

Carol Danvers woke up and realized that she wasn’t the best superhero. in fact in the 616 reality she had experienced a nervous breakdown after saving the world from an astroid. She was closed off from everyone, depressed in her apartment, not in any sort of shape for superhero work, and dealing with an alcohol addiction. 

But she remembered the House of M reality. 

Remembered what she was supposed to be.

And Carol Danvers got back up and started working her ass off to become the version of herself that she KNEW beyond a shadow of a doubt that she could be. 

The Best of the Best. 

And that’s an attitude I want for my own story. 

Because I’ve literally spent my whole adult life dealing with a brain tumor. 

sometime in some other post i’ll go into that part of my journey more, but for now all I need to say is that for the first time in my life i’m free of this weight.

this constant part of my life, this battle i’ve been fighting for 6 years. 

I don’t have to fight to stay happy, to feel useful, to feel normal, to feel just like I got my shit together. 

I don’t have to do that anymore. 

The nightmare is over, and I just want to become the Best version of myself. 

I didn’t have the energy or fight for that, because I was too busy just trying to hold on. 

I don’t want to just survive anymore, I want to LIVE. 

I want to use that fight, that extra energy and happiness and become the best Megan I know I can be. 

So yeah, that’s the plan. 

I’m going to become an Avenger. 

feel free to join me. 

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Taking it easy today, doing some intense Hatha Yoga to get my legs ( and the rest of me) ready for tomorrow’s run. 

tomorrow’s gonna SUUUUUCCCCKKKKK.