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dude i wish that thing had been around earlier, too! vertecs are so expensive and unwieldy. a suction-cup-mounted thing seems perfect.

- run 29:59, 5.31 km
just to get the juices flowing a little and be in the heat. T+DI 147.

there's been a weird tightness between my shoulder blades, up pretty high, for the past few days. not sure what that's about; doesn't feel like the knots i get headaches from. it does seem to be lessening.

wife's ACL is torn. i took her to get an MRI yesterday and the doc followed up today to confirm it. looks like she will be able to have surgery next week. she is understandably devastated: exercise in general and running in particular are very important to her and she suffers when she has to sit still. she sobbed when she got the news, and tbh i cried, too, right then and also later, by myself. it absolutely sucks, and the timing could almost not be worse. we're moving on saturday, we're trying to have a baby, we're supposed to go visit her family in south dakota for july 4th... fuck.

part of what sucks - a small part, relative to her being badly hurt and grieving - is losing, even if temporarily, my training buddy! getting excited about running, climbing, mountaineering, all of that stuff is out the window for now because even though i can still do them, i don't want to do them as much without her. it's a source of joy and intimacy for us. and i can't be sharing progress or making plans or anything because it'll make her feel bad. got to figure out what to do about that.

- tennis w/dad x 45 mins
early morning, was beautiful outside. (but don't worry vag, we'll catch up to you soon.)

- run 1:02:26, 9.62 km
not hot but humid. still have a crick in my neck but it'll go away soon.

yesterday was a little better with the bag, running to and from the gym without my laptop. i figured out how to cinch the side cords down and that helped. will give this a few more goes and then recommend or not. the bag design otherwise is good: lots of pockets, very comfortable materials. if i were buying it again i'd size down to a small from the medium i bought, just to be able to close the lower chest strap tighter, but it works as a medium. anyway i'll keep a running commentary (no pun intended).

yesterday

- run 33:40, 5.38km
so humid

- bouldering x 2 hours

- run 10:57, 1.78 km

3 June

Run 7.5K @ 43:38 ( 5:49 pace )

Summer heat is here. Still mild, last night T+DI was 140 (80+60). It's not that much but body is not used to it.

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many many many studies have shown that eating vegetables has positive effects on health. to cite just one meta-analysis, which found not just statistically significant but practically meaningful (25-30%) reductions in the risk of stroke and esophageal cancer when people go from 0-~300g of veggies per day: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9556321/.

or, for a lay breakdown: https://lifehacker.com/health/tiktok-myth-vegetables-are-bad-for-you. (obviously, these myths have been around longer than tiktok. my in-laws, who don't know what tiktok is and who fight about everything else, are both dead-set against beans because of lectins. but it's a little like being against chicken because you can get salmonella from it when it's raw or undercooked. no one eats raw beans!)