Currently eating the last cookies

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Thanks for all the replies to my "what to rec next" poll! It worked, I'm feeling a lot more motivated about reccing now. But it'll have to wait two weeks since I have two exams upcoming and, uh, am sliiightly behind on studying.

I went running today - my new plan is to go running twice a week, I'm optimistic. My family signed up for the Vienna City Marathon in April as a relay team and I look forward to that.

DD can almost walk without pain again (she strained a ligament in her ankle right before New Year's), so my days are almost over as the completely well-meaning and absolutely not suspicious caretaker who tells her not to worry about anything, it'll be fine, no you don't have to go outside, stop trying to do stuff, just let me take care of things... She's easily distracted with fic recs, which is convenient *g*

...okay, now back to studying.

Comments

[isis]

I encourage you (and your family) in your running goals!

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Thanks :) My father goes running very regularly (he used to run marathons), my mother and LB at least regularly, and I've always been the lazy one, with repeated short periods of regular activity and then longer periods of doing next to nothing. Hopefully this time I'll keep up regular running for longer.

[michelel72]

Good luck with the running schedule and with studying!

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Thanks! Studying is going okay-ish so far, let's see how it goes tomorrow.

[nonesensed]

As a fellow runner, I send you and your family good vibes! A marathon is quite the thing to under take - how is the relay team arranged? (I suspect I would go "Oh, _that's_ what relay team marathon means if English was my first language, but I'm currently drawing a blank).

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Thanks!
The distances for the relay runners are unequal: 15.5km for the first runner, 6km for the next, then 9.3km, then 11.4km for the final one. I ran the 11.4 once before, and 6 most recently (iirc 3 years ago), but this year I want to run the 9.3km. And I'd love to be able to get a 7:30 min/km average, but I still have quite a bit of training to do to get there.

[nonesensed]

Ah, now I get it! Thank you for the explanation :) 7,5min/km is a tough goal, but I'm sure you'll make it :D