#5k stuff

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zombies run spring 5k

Today’s 5k was a disaster. I was NOT ready. This is my own fault but it’s still disappointing. I did well for the first 1k and then I was going to slow to a walk for a bit when I twisted my ankle on a stick, I think. it hurt really bad but I slowed to a walk and finished the other 4k somehow. It didn’t hurt too bad but as I went longer and longer the more it started to hurt. when I finished the pain caught up to me and now it’s incredibly sore and hurts to walk on. But I still finished the race!!! 176/204, with 47:50 as my final time. It’s by far my worst 5k time yet but I finished and was NOT last and that’s all I really care about. Not to mention that it was raining and miserable the entire race. It rained on all of us, but it was still poor conditions for a run. And now that the run is over the sun has come out. Of course

The mission was really good. Zombies, Run! got me good, when the zombie attacked Begsy the sound was like it was right at me shoulder coming at me and I jumped and turned to look, but there was nothing there, of course. I wasn’t expecting the sudden turn Freddie took where she shot Begsy and tries to kill all of us, it was really surprising. Overall I liked this 5k a lot but honestly I liked the previous one a little better.

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ZRS3E50 Listen all you people

I’m sorry for disappearing on you all. I keep saying I’ll get back into it, and then I make excuses and don’t do it. I’m doing a terrible job keeping my promises right now, but I will get back into this. There’s no better motivator than the scary numbers the scale is telling me lately. My Vi headset should be here next week or the following, so that’ll make it a lot easier, because part of the way the AI works is reminding you to exercise. I’m really looking forward to that. I went out for a walk this morning, rather than a run. I’ll need to get back into the 5k trainer once the actual thaw hits, now that I’ve got a set route on road equal to the 5k distance on the trails. I’m going to try and find a partner for the upcoming virtual race so I do better than I did last spring, walking alone, and look into 5ks in nearby towns once it gets closer to the time so I can try and make better plans.

Michigan is having some really strange seasons lately. Last year had one of the hottest summers on record (which I hated, because part of the reason I actually live in michigan is because we DON’T get summers with 100+ degree heat indexes every year, which he had some days last year. And now we have nearly a whole week of mid to high 40s today until friday, so plenty of time for me to get out and go do some missions. Going out this morning, the road was nearly entirely ice, not the worst I’ve seen this year, but close. In some places if I had took a Zamboni to the road I could have ice skated my mission instead of walked it. Literally, I’m not exaggerating here. Luckily the shoes I wear for running the trails also work well enough on ice, so I was good. With the rain coming up and the temperatures above freezing all week, a good amount of our snow and ice should melt, thank the lord. 

On a side note, I ran Pokemon Go while out on my walk today. I hatched all four of my eggs and finished a cycle of the buddy walking for candies and nearly completed a second.

Todays run started out with me, jody and owen off to a hospital for supplies. A “Nice, easy run” for all of 30 seconds. Anyone surprised? A group of new canton people “Captured” Moonchild. I didn’t believe that for a second. Especially once one of the captors said she drank moonchilds ginseng tea. So we get through the zoms and into new canton, and control tones go out over the whole town, controlling everyone. Again, anyone surprised? So me and Mrs. Sosa make a run for it in the castle dungeons, and grab some water. At this point, it’s easy to realize that moonchild drugged the water supply. so we make our way down and Mrs. Sosa tries to gain control of me again, once I drink the tainted water. Again, so obvious, how has sam not realized yet? After getting away and getting ahold of nadia (Who’s quite awesome now, have I mentioned that?) I make my way to the water center, and low and behold there are barrels of the mind control serum there. dun dun dun. I don’t know if I’m really good at this, if it was meant to be obvious, or if it was just really predictable. My money’s on the second. I finallly make it out and theres an army waiting outside. Like, a huge militia. Sam says it’s obvious who they’re waiting for but at this I was lost, everyone in new canton is mind controlled. Who would the need that much gunpower for? Even Abel township can’t be that big of a threat, right? that’s the only thing I didn’t get. But I supposed it’ll make sense soon enough. 

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GAWD I’m so sore, I’m really paying the toll now for pushing myself so hard without proper training buildup. I’m going to be sore for a week but it was SOOO worth it.

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Manistee firecracker 5k run log

I DID SO GOOD!!!!! I’m still at the 5k, but I finished in 33:30! My average mile pace was 10:39, which considering the fact that I’ve been running over 11, almost 12 minutes per mile, and the enormous, impossible hill I had to walk up, is amazing! I’m so happy right now!! I finished just under ¾ of the racers, 173/236. Not an amazing time, but I was third in my age group, so that’s not all bad. I got a medal and everything. Of course, there were only four in the 20-24 bracket, so… I put on my Spotify Playlist bit I ran faster than the pace set, which, while not bad, didn’t help me either. I DID turn on chases, and kept expecting a zombie chase to happen, but I went the whole run without one. When I put my race bib on, I tried to put the pins through this shirt and it was nearly impossible. Six to Start chose a really good quality workout shirt. I wound up in the back of the race with the slow runners who slow to a walk, but after the walkers. I did a 5k last year in October, my very first, and I finished in 29 minutes, so today's run was four minutes slower, but considering the hill and the few times I had to slow to a walk, had my route been the same as last year, which was my typical route anyway, I'm sure I would have made better time. I'll have to run today's mission again sometime, I wasn't able to zone out and focus on the mission like usual since I was so focused on the race. My mission said it would finish in 33 minutes and as I came around the last corner to the finish line, a clip played and I was so confused, because I didn't think I'd run that fast, since my typical runs lately have taken much longer. I was so surprised looking at my time, I could hardly believe it. The last clip finished seconds after I crossed the finish line. I'm also glad that I came down to Manistee yesterday rather than waiting, because even though I was sure the race was on Monday, the 4th, it was actually today, so if I had stuck to my original plan I would have missed it.

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ZRS3E33 Upside Down

Last run log I linked you guys a kickstarter I backer, and am very eager for. As it happens it’s already been highly useful. I never knew there was a word for how fast you run, how to set your pace. Cadence, is the word I never knew I needed. The headset helps with that but once I heard that word I looked in the app store and found an app that helps regulate cadence, and lo and behold my pace today was pretty steady. Thanks to my new app I now have a better way to practice not burning so quickly. I jogged the whole way today, I didn’t even stop to walk during the mission clips. My speed was slower than normal but my average time was about the same. If I can speed up my time about a minute per mile by July 4th, that’d be great. I’m planning to run in the 4th of July 5k back in Manistee. I may not live there anymore but I haven’t missed the annual festival there in nearly 10 years, since my Grandmother moved down, and I’m not about to start now. Now I know I can run a steady pace, even up and down hills, which is great, because the route is like that. I won’t make good time, like I did last time, but I’m not going to run to place first, just to say I did it. My pace was good, I still sped up regularly but my new app reminded me often to slow down, which really helped. Though this run went slower, I would count this one as a big success.

Mission thoughts below

So apparently the guy we rescued last time worked with Van Ark. We had an interesting flashback, and got a lot of new information. I guess Rajit was right about the mind control, way back in the Zombies, Run! 5k trainer. I don’t have a lot to add here, the mission was a lot of information but not a lot of action. It wasn’t as interesting as the last flashback we had, but I know it was a build up for the future episodes. I do have to wonder, though. Way back in season one, when we rescue Ed, he told us about the guys in blue camping out near Abel, with the rocket launchers. It was, to me at least, implied that thy shot the helicopter down. I can’t help but wonder if they were working with Diana and Comansys. It would make sense, but why they would do that I guess we’ll find out. At least I hope so. 

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Congrats to your successful 5k!!! :D

Thanks! I know I could have done better, because I ran into my pacing problem and burned too fast in the beginning. I ended up having three people pass me because I and two ladies behind me put on a burst of speed twenty feet from the finish line and beat me to it. But, though I know all of this, I’m happy because 1) I ran a 5K in under 30 minutes 2) it was a PUBLIC 5K and not just zombies run and 3) though I wasn’t in the top 5, which I could have been had I paced myself better, I still placed in a pretty good spot for my first time. I met my goal from this spring successfully and I’m really proud about that.

Ugh. I didn’t mean to go off like this on your compliment. I’m just in a really good, talkative mood right now. Thanks again!

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Half an hour until my race!

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Downloaded my virtual 5K race! Can't wait to run tomorrow!