Half marathon

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today, san francisco marathon.

personal record

age group award

it was perfect. exception: only two litterboxes @ the finish line. too far away, expensive, and crowded, but i knew that before i went.

had to take two buses and one shuttle to get there. had to leave Pigpen 4am to take the bus.

nothing bad or wrong happened today thus far.

yesterday took a nap and woke up 7pm. Ate. 7:40pm bed. 7pm-1am slept fine. Got up and stretched. Bed til 3:20a.

Got up, breakfast, (bm), computer, (bm), nap (bm)...

Went jogging today. Usual route. Felt the same as usual. Cardio and legs.

Uneventful.

Pretty soon, will be too old, injured, busy, disabled to continue walking such long distances. MUST start eating a lot less or gain a lot of weight. But, emotional overeating.

Today my sister came over and had the nerve to bark @ me about keeping the house clean. (rolls eyes). (puke). "If you want to continue living here, live like a human." (Was that a threat to sell the house?).

after the marathon, quads a lil sore for four days. not that bad.

on monday, went jogging. cardio and legs felt same as usual.

torn between wanting to run as many marathons as possible before i get too old/disabled/injured/busy to do any more, and wanting to not do any more.

Yesterday went jogging the usual route

Zero physical pain, zero symptoms

Felt like low lung capacity

Getting old

Wish I started jogging when I was younger

today went jogging along the usual route.

felt old/weak/slow. but zero physical pain or injuries per se.

good enough.

42 already over the hill.

today overcast and perfect temperature.

when it gets old and raining, it'll be much harder to continue jogging/walking.

monday jogging

zero physical pain
only a lil coughing
cardio weak/slow/old

uneventful

Any exercise is better than none, good work for sticking at it.

Exercising in the cold and rain either on a run or bike ride, while not always enjoyable, sometimes it makes me feel good that I'm doing this thing that for many people is too much to even entertain the thought of. Especially so when I run past a queue of cars at a drive-thru fast food place

according to the half marathon website, the results have been finalized & my worthless corpse gets four coasters for getting in second out of two in my division.

it says the coasters come in three to six weeks. it will have been six weeks, two days later.

do not particularly want the coasters. (oakland marathon 2023, won a cup and never used it). just feeling insecure, inadequate and useless, ashamed, embarrassed, worthless.

still no coasters.

If your body can do a half marathon, you need to rethink your judgement of it as worthless.

frollpoff

unless you are a professional runner, your "worth" has nothing to do with how far you can run/jog/walk.
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below salvage value

some things are not worth the energy they take

plenty of precious lil "people" act like their "worth" is much higher than it really is. those precious lil "people" grotesquely overestimate their: IQ, wisdom, "worth", moral "innocence." but nobody is "innocent". verdicts are: "guilty" and "not guilty".

What I meant is, you have achieved something by running half a marathon, that is a positive, it gives your body value to you, that's important.

Maybe I'm just too much thinking along the lines of myself, if I am able to do something other people don't do then it helps me feel a little less s**t about myself.

I ran half marathons 3 times - twice in the Great North Run in 2009 and last year and the 2010 St Albans Half-Marathon.

It's hard to run too and legs are achy the next day!

Congratulations!

My equivalent is walking the golf course all day! I can now play five or six hours of golf!
I play at a country club with a lot of hills that makes walking a challenge.

today, just paid $225 for a half marathon two days from now.

totally not prepared.

not even confident, i could finish in the course limit, 4 hours.

nutrition, been eating way too much bread, chocolate
litterboxing, frequency, intensity, duration
sleeping, chronic sleep deprivation
training, haven't run over 7 miles since the July 2025 half marathon

but whatever. 42 is already really old. especially since autistics and transsexuals, average much shorter lifespans than cisgenders and neurotypicals.

"life" goes on and on and on and on

no matter what happens, i am already 42 years old.

according to wikipedia, i am now older than elvis was when he dropped dead.

i have been rapidly on the decline for a long time.

today, berkeley half marathon. it's my third time doing BHM. slept 9-2:30. tried and failed to sleep til 4. (that's usual for me nowadays). bus. uneventful. zero physical pain, zero symptoms, nobody bothered me. it seemed that now that i'm 42 years old, joints feel so stiff. it felt like it took longer than usual to warm up. cardio actually felt decent. briefly/lightly sprinkled. shoes a lil wet. not cold, about 60f. according to the race results, continuously went faster every split. surprised it said my time - my time was 14 (fourteen) minutes faster than my second fasted time. (pb/pr). if there weren't timing chips and checkpoints, i would've thought it was a mistake, b/c i couldn't've run that quickly. mentally, it seemed to go by quickly b/c the route ws familiar.

i had a great time. to say that it was worth $225 is a lot, especially since i only earn minimum wage. but whatever.

Well done! You say you have zero hobbies but running IS a hobby and can improve one's mental wellbeing. Your body can do much more than you think!! Indeed mental exhaustion can be overcome by physical activity.

You have reason to feel proud of your performance. I started with half marathons then progressed to full marathons.

As others have said, your dark and prolific writing about your daily experiences shows an offbeat form of talent.