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Still liftin’, gotta get back to runnin’ (did a little yesterday).

Random walk/run pix.

Still fat, but actually did leg day. 5/7.

Good thing lifting selfies are free, tho, or I’d be broke as.

Bit more bread baking and some wandering around. Haven’t quite nailed sourdough tin loaf yet but yolo still tastes gud.

Deadlift full-body day went alright. idk. Still doing lighter weight deadlifts and practicing form. Seems to work for my legs tho. Arms also working with the upper component.

I went outside. I took a bajillion pix. Can only upload four. Lucky.

idk how to leg day pose, but I did it so that’s cool.

Did I even bake if I didn’t selfie?

Have recently done:
- corn (polenta) honey sandwich bread
- chiffon cake (today, aiming to turn into passionfruit cream sponge)
- white sourdough in tin
- pandan white chocolate oatmeal cookies
- freeform white sourdough

Cake I made for my 40th wasn’t bad, ft. fitness progress update.

Strawberry devils food cake with a cream cheese strawberry frosting and a vanilla strawberry jam.

Sitting at -53 kg so far. Trying to get back into it.

Random recent cooking efforts. Pandan pound cake, spam fried rice, bread and butter pudding, and an attempt at pizza.

Changed my routine up a bit, to be more cardio focused and to let me play with a deadlift day again.

Now doing upper/lower/full split lift with an interval/tempo/distance mix of running days.

Curious to see if I can improve my cardio capacity and speed.

Lifting, baking, and wandering around outside. Trying to get a walk in daily alongside my short run and lift days.

My long run is enuff cardio for that day (currently Sundays, up to 12.5 km, trying 5% added per week till I can half marathon).

Got a lot of bread waste as I figure out how to bake.

Attempts have been made — all have issues. I’ll figure sourdough out eventually.

Probably the tastiest whole wheat bread I’ve had, tho.

Home gym leg day selfies. Still fat, but running and lifting are slowly doing… something.

Probably should get back to dieting more seriously, since I’m 40 in a couple of weeks, but yolo.

Caek, chez, beach, and back to learning to run now that my knee feels better :)

Been sweating my way up the Melbourne coastline over the last few days. Interesting beaches. The further south you go the nicer the sand is. The flies are just omnipresent, though. Gud times, bro.

Also random bench selfie project is going well.

Hmm.

Random selfied my way around North Melbourne, stopping in at my sisters bakery on the way to bake some brownies and chezcaek and then later to steal some caek.

Cuz damn, 35 degrees is quite toasty and I walked quite a distance in it. I deserve cake, right?

Flagstaff garden ain’t bad tho.

Did some washing up for my sister and got some (a lot of) free leftover caek… and worked a very small portion of my piece off by starting a 5k app this morning.

Helping out at a bakery is gonna make me get fatter again, haha.

Olive oil lemon tart worked out okay, though the base wasn’t overly forgiving (snapped). Tastes great, tho.

Started learning to jog, will give one of those 5k apps a try and see how I go. Pretty fun :) (even when it literally rains on my parade).

Exploring north Melbourne buildings and babysitting in Geelong. Gud times.

Giving teaching myself to run a go, and amusingly found a dinosaur slash Christmas tree world on the track.

Babysitting in Geelong day 2.

Dude in front of a copper vein cross section

Copper vein cross section

Dude surrounded by rocks on display at a museum

Uncut malachite

Turns out I like rocks — at least the ones at Melbourne museum. Also have a massive soft spot for any rock that’s shown up in a video game (malachite in WoW, garnet in FFIX, etc).

That slab of a copper vein was awesome tho.

Slice of New York cheesecake

New York cheesecake, sliced

Cream cheese in a mixing bowl

Dude in front of a commercial oven baking a cheesecake

Hung out at my youngest sisters bakery and, between helping her with her regular stuff, baked her a cheesecake to try out.

Old English styled building

Barbershop window with a terminator statue

Exploring Prahran in Melbourne. Amused to be randomly wandering and then suddenly notice a terminator statue in a barbershop — that is awesome.