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yesterday

- dreadmill hill walk x 40 mins
found a way to make the hills steeper, which was good

- stairmaster x 10 mins

ribs a bit better yesterday and today, less acute pain and more soreness/stiffness. there's also knock-on soreness in my left mid back, but that also seems less severe this morning.

found out yesterday that i am 95% likely to get furloughed (i.e., placed on leave without pay) on february 14. there's a 3% chance that i keep my full-time post and a 2% chance that my position is terminated altogether. deep breaths.

ribs continue to improve: they are now just sore, no acute pain. really, really glad that they're healing in time for my ski trip, which starts this weekend! i'm not going to run before then, just in the interest of not pushing my luck with recovery. will do some walking today, probably outside as i'm taking a sick day and so will have time during the day for it.

yikes, fingers crossed for you man! hope you can at least fully enjoy the ski trip

found out yesterday that i am 95% likely to get furloughed (i.e., placed on leave without pay) on february 14. there's a 3% chance that i keep my full-time post and a 2% chance that my position is terminated altogether. deep breaths.

ribs continue to improve: they are now just sore, no acute pain. really, really glad that they're healing in time for my ski trip, which starts this weekend! i'm not going to run before then, just in the interest of not pushing my luck with recovery. will do some walking today, probably outside as i'm taking a sick day and so will have time during the day for it.

Wow sorry to hear that. I've got my fingers crossed for the 3%. Is this from Trump 2.0 by any chance?

it is from trump 2.0, plus co-president elon, who decided in his infinitely arrogant stupidity to try to destroy my industry. miraculously, i did keep my job (for now). back home from my trip and first day back at work today, seems like everything is pretty much in chaos.

i'd legit been on tenterhooks re your situation, so i'm glad to hear you've kept your job, even if everything else around it is borked

- dreadmill intervals
-- warm up
-- 5 x 0.5 mile @ 6:22 (last rep stepped down to 6:00 for a quarter and then 5:49 for the last quarter), 0.25 mile jogging rest
-- cool down

- dead hang x 60s+
mistake, ribs hurt a little after this. stupidly didn't actually measure but i counted to 60 very slowly.

- run 1:10:18, 12.36 km
really nice day, ran up to a bouldering spot with a friend and a few other friends met us there with some gear.

- outdoor bouldering x ~2 hours
didn't do that much climbing, in the end, but it was fun to be outside. the grades definitely seemed sandbagged, hardest thing i did was V2 and would have been graded harder in the gym. also quite a bit scarier than in the gym, where you can at least see what every hold is supposed to be and the whole floor is bouncy. pads move around and they aren't that big.

ETA: also, i just discovered steve magness's youtube videos and i haven't been this excited about an online exercise nerd since i found lyle mcdonald 15+ years ago.

100%, i haven't even been able to bring myself to look at the life/business coaching stuff. turbo cringe as a category, and i'm happy to take your word for it that he's no exception.

also, i'm a little weirded out by the room he records in, which has nothing in the background except beige walls. no art, not even shitty art or a motivational poster, no plants, nothing. baffling.

- track workout
-- warm up
-- 4 x [3 min @ >threshold, 3 min @ <threshold, 3 min jogging rest]
-- cool down
i slept like crap and am glad i managed to drag myself to the running group. didn't particularly like this workout, but that's okay. also, i'm an idiot - or maybe just sleep-deprived - and absolutely bungled the lap timer, so i only have accurate stats for my last set: 4:21, 4:04, 5:25. pretty good.