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We've been in a heat wave for the past week, it doesn't go below 80 until nearly midnight and the neighborhoods been feeling like Madrid. Everyone's out chilling with drinks & pets and kids all night. 10pm pick up game at the park across the street. Too late for me to run alone so I grabbed my rope and started jumping again and remembered how fun it is

Question for the culture: how taxing is jumping rope on the body when compared to running? I don't go into too much of a caloric deficit while running because I'm already injury prone as it is, but do I get more leeway with jumping rope?

god forbid a woman buy herself a couple new tops after 2 months of consistently training, but ya i'm the consooomer

>!im ok tho!<

I can run daily no problem but I just won't lift so I keep trying to make it easier and easier for myself to train, now I brought a yoga mat to work and do a workout on lunch by hiding under my desk. I'm trying to stick to something formal that I can build up every work day before I reward myself with some cute new fits.

Also do any of the ladies have gym clothes recs? Specifically cheaper alternatives to FP Movement? I like their layered cotton tops. It's easy enough to find cotton tops but I like how fitted the FP ones are

I love all the running posting going on lately. I've been running as my main form of exercise for about 4 years now but just this year I made a shift in the way I incorporate running into my life and it's been a game changer. On an average day I:

• run .5 miles to the bus stop (take bus to work)
• run .5 miles from bus stop to desk
• run .5 miles back to bus stop (bus home)
• run 2.5 miles home by getting off at a much earlier bus stop

That's 4 miles right there. Some days I might have to visit another job site a mile away, if I run there and back that's another 2 miles added to my daily mileage. When I was running 5-6 miles a day all at once in the mornings I kept getting taken out by overuse injuries but now I don't get them because my recovery is constant and I'm never on my feet for too long at once. (When I go on long runs a couple times a week I run on trails)

On the weekends if I need to run errands, I run them. Most of my grocery stores, pet food stores, the library etc are within a 1 mile radius of where I live. The movie theater is 4 miles away, I take the bus there and then run home. If I'm running less than a mile at a time I don't sweat much and just stop in the bathroom and wipe myself off but if it's more than a mile I make sure that the run ends at home so I can shower immediately after.

I don't feel like I have to carve out a huge portion of my day just to get my runs in anymore and it actually saves me time with my work commute. I also just see opportunities to run constantly, all around me. Take the runyourerrands pill

I've got two ~thousand pagers coming up on my TBR this fall and am looking to see if there's enough interest in either to turn this into a read along. Ideally I'd be doing this for the month of November, I would want to tackle either in about 4 weeks time, so 250 pages a week. The two options:

1. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Published in 1924, the book is set in Davos at a secluded sanatorium for the uberwealthy. Perennially topical, Davos & Mann have been coming up in other pop culture I've been consuming recently, such as: Time Shelter by Gospodinov, 2666, End Times Fascism, and W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn. It's about time I read this since it has proven to be so influential.

From the book's Wiki:

Scholars have interpreted The Magic Mountain as both a classic example of the European Bildungsroman—a novel of psychological or moral development—and as a satire of this genre. Many formal characteristics of the Bildungsroman are present: the protagonist begins in a state of immaturity and, after leaving his home environment, is exposed to art, culture, politics, human vulnerability, and love.^([9]) Yet, writes Morten Høi Jensen,

>The Magic Mountain inverts the premises of the bildunsroman in that Hans Castorp is "seduced away from the practical activity of the world" at the same time that it fulfills those same premises, since Hans Castorp would not have explored ideas had he returned to Hamburg and become an engineer instead.^([10])

The novel explores themes such as the experience of time, music, nationalism, sociology, and changes in the natural world. Through Castorp's stay in the rarefied atmosphere of "The Magic Mountain", the narrative provides a view of pre-World War I European civilization and the underlying tensions of the era.^([11])

2. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

A "novelized" account of Gary Gilmore's crimes & punishment and the national debate that surrounded his execution by firing squad; Gilmore was the first person to be executed in 10 years. I've heard the book referenced more frequently recently as it relates to the evolution of the True Crime genre and highly publicized criminal cases, such as the Lindsay Clancy trial. This would be a more controversial book to read and discuss, surely.

Please comment below if you would seriously consider joining a read along for either (or both) of these books.

4 hours on Musk

I don't want to have to pull out a YouTube video every time I go to the gym but I don't remember shit about workouts. I go to yoga like 5x a week and every time the routine is brand new to me even though the people around me are all transitioning smoothly from pose to pose because they remember the sequence. I have a good memory outside of body related stuff so if anyone has the same kind of brain as me, please let me know if you've found any fixes.

If there's anyone in your life making your fitness goals easier for you. I'm training for a race so I'm tired all the time & my bf has more free time than me; the fact that he does all the grocery shopping and dishwashing means that I can go all out with training, go to work, and then conk out in the evenings. I just write down the food I want on the fridge whiteboard and it magically appears in my pantry every week. Couldn't do it without him

Is so poorly written. Why are both characters narrating their lives Fleabag style, constantly winking at the audience and negotiating with their own thoughts? I don't get all the buzz this book is getting right now

I loved it!

So what's his deal

I was listening to a josh kerr interview post-world record and he said that his job as an athlete is to be a "full time recovery artist" because the running comes easy to him.

I'm not trying to break any records but I've got a few races I want to do well in over the next six months and injuries from overtraining have always tripped me up. How do you guys prioritize recovery when you're training for a race?

Fitness has some of the best maxims for life while also having some of the worst propagandists.

Give me your pro-tips if you've done this. Commute is about 5 miles each way, no shower on site. Walk/bus there & run back only? I usually pack my lunch in glass containers, how do you deal with that? Leave extra clothes there? lmk

Share your stupid impulse fitness purchases to make me feel better