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selfie of me after 6 km run on running path. Cloudy but 4 UVI and ~ 94% humidity. Woman, dark hair down from ponytail , dark eyes, RX sunglasses propped on head, dark red freckled face, freckled complexion, sweaty neck and shirt collar, pink oversized running shirt.

Applefitness alt view run dashboard. Monday, 2 March. GPS run map going north and doubling back. 38:45 continuous run time, 6 km distance. Pace graphic, 6’27” avg mins/km. 5’57” - 6’49” pace range. Heart rate graphic, 158 bpm hr average, 169 bpm hr max. Power graphic 182w power. 168spm average cadence.

Applefitness alt view run dashboard. Tuesday, 3 March. GPS run map going south to berkeley and doubling back. 43:13 continuous slow run time, 6.23 km distance. Pace graphic, 6’53” avg mins/km. 6’06” - 7’20” pace range. Heart rate graphic, 152 bpm hr average, 160 bpm hr max. Power graphic 172w power. 165spm average cadence.

Applefitness alt view run dashboard. Wednesday, 4 March. GPS run map going north and doubling back. 39:05 continuous run time, 6 km distance. Pace graphic, 6’31” avg mins/km. 5’59” - 6’51” pace range. Heart rate graphic, 155 bpm hr average, 162 bpm hr max. Power graphic 182w power. 168spm average cadence.

#5KADay 530, 531, 532 #running ~ 6+km each. Monday was ~ 18mins in zone 5/red, but 0 the others. Still significant left leg weakness but knee is fine. Rough running with high humidity, higher UV, and sun cream on since I mostly sweat from my face and that traps in surface heat 🥵 #Runchat #Runsky

I’ll do an update once I pull the trigger. I definitely want to find something backed by a certifying org for quality.

It depends, I often get water retention and have already noticed I’m dealing with more bloat than usual already. It’s not uncommon for women with several autoimmune diseases to struggle with digesting supplements, but I might try a type a creatine women like me apparently tolerate better. Thx!

Basically, I’ve had to avoid a lot of supplements because of stomach and migraine problems. I noticed it when I suddenly started getting migraines from an old protein powder - Vega. My long covid journey was a lot of lessons on coping with a more complicated situ, including fodmap stuff.

I was looking up different sources and apparently Creatine hydrochloride is better for ppl who typically experience bloat and stomach upset. Add to that migraines and soft tissue inflammation and it’s why I have to avoid vegan protein products, etc. Which type of creatine do you take?

I worry about adding creatine because weight gain/bloating is a common side effect for women my age. Between the Dupixent weight gain and the move/winter stress weight gain I’m not playing right now 😭

tenderizing large format meat and cooking it thin sliced really helps + roasts/braises + cooking whole fish and whole chicken. Food is our biggest cost besides rent even tho I’m not keto anymore. Fresh, whole, organic food is very expensive plus quality whey powder. Trashy food is affordable food 🤬

I’ve too been thinking about food tracking to help clean up some bad habits that have crept back in since our Oct move. I think anything that disrupts social connections also fuels bad food choices. Plus it’s tough to use the gym here because it’s just not nice/user friendly like the last one.

while I added rice/noodles/bread back in, it wasn’t until I no longer had metabolic disease. I stoped using the fasting window and exercising fasted around Aug 2024. I did still eat high fiber berries. I focused big time on getting lots of sleep. I don’t think eating changes mix well with poor sleep

I focused on whole foods as much as possible and I avoided ground meat and lunch meats as much as possible. One rule of thumb was every snack had to include fresh vegetables even if i broiled before eating

This is basically how I started my personal re-fitness journey in 2023. I did it with a daily fasting window around 18:00 to around noon the next day. Basically I did 90mins+ fitness walking and didn’t break my fast until I did my exercise. But I was borderline obese with terrible labs.

I feel like most business owners say it’s the rent. I lived in the core of Fremont and real estate owners were committed to driving out successful businesses with greedy rent increases. Churn is also certainly natural. Kettle seems to be an echo chamber for what non-residents parrot about cities.

Plus leavers vs total would be more helpful and comparing that churn rate to say 2017 would be even more helpful. There’s a lot of levers impacting business so he just wants to claim it’s about “safety” rather than incomes, rent, ease of customers getting reliable, convenient transit or parking.

Maritza isn’t yet familiar on how Seattle collects lots of money, spends lots of money and takes 3 times as much time to complete a project, if it gets completed at all? I thought she was only new to the council, not to Seattle. It’s called the Seattle Process for a reason.

This is so dumb. The CBO does routine briefings with the council and mayor and of course it’s a Bond & a levy. There’s like 4-6 colors of money on every dang public project. Kettle is obviously still failing up. That’s definitely him biffing every learning curve.

I’m super happy there’s an Asian lead and the little sister’s love story is cute (John & Francesca). Otherwise, I don’t much care for Season 4. Shonda crammed a 10 episode story into 8 episodes IMHO. But, maybe you’ll like it. Cute and entertaining moments but a fleeting collection of story lines.

I heard something great on public radio yesterday about generative AI, humanity and art + crap 🤖 music. Something like “let’s not make creating art the domain and time saving of generative AI, let us keep the beauty and true value of being human.” My thought was this, we must fight exactly for this.

What’s your base temp? Using wire racks in a sheet pan or the round ones in skillets is such a game changer.

Sending 🥰.

I was thinking weaning off the albuterol I was taking because of that long succession of poor air quality days is partly what has slowed me down while increasing my red zone time and probably hit my running form. Now I think it more.

Yes, whenever I get sad that more running means few long runs I scenario play about the feeling of taking “break” days and I see that I’m happy with my choices and that FOMO is a mental game.

hah! definitely two different mornings. Glad you found something more typical for Tuesday morning.

An inappropriate bafta joke just spun in my brain 😊. (The one about semi-invisible disabilities, lest ppl misunderstand.)

I mean, based on the user handle isn’t it a perfect joke from the account? This is where I would post the joke whizzing around one’s head meme, but feels too rude.

Excellent Anon Opin. Lots of ppl missed the joke and went straight to bait vs typo argument.

We’re in California at the moment.
The hubby said he would be sad if I left to spend a few months back in London. If I do come, I’ll ask you about running.
Thank you 🙏, the running keeps me sane here.

Turns out i’m poor at tracking who owns what now. I thought nestle had bought Hershey. Basically, I now eat fringe brands for treats, like Justin’s organic peanut butter chocolate cups. I almost ordered Joque Torres chocolates the other day, pining away for pierre marcolini

I just permanently broke up with nestle upon tasting their final blow to kit kat. I don’t eat much candy but had a long car trip in October. Anyway, living in the UK taught me that even our sweets are second rate in the states.

Hammond’s Bridgerton vlog on Netflix suggests we all rewatch Seasons 1-4 and trying to get us to care about who the copycat Whistledown is so it feels like Shondaland did some audience testing b4 release on Netflix and they know Season 4 flopped it a bit. Rewatch YOU, it’s such good ✍️ & acting.

Bridgerton Season 4 - I 👀 through the credits as I was mystified with the choppy & incomplete season. There is a wedding. It still felt incomplete so i watched the vlog show with Alison Hammond. Shonda basically thot the season felt complete without the wedding. Beg to differ that it felt complete