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Jogging Something Loose
Dec. 11th, 2023 02:06 pm
There are layers under this strip that it doesn't really dig into, such as the fact that Tiffany is at least a head taller than Yin, she's a hunting carnivore while Yin is a sedentary herbivore, and so on, but there's only so much you can do in a five-panel webcomic.
In any case! The reason I chose that strip is that as part of the getting back together of my shit, getting back into a regular exercise routine has been a major priority. My record was already getting sketchy by the time the whole sister's-basement-four-hour-commute thing came along and decimated it; but having moved back into the apartment complex where I first took up jogging in 1993? 4? my plan all along has been "Start jogging again."
Now, almost a year later >.> I've finally actually done it. Twenty minutes out, jogging when I can, walking when I have to. The 1/2-mile trail around the complex consists of a long downhill stretch, two fairly level stretches, and a long uphill stretch, so it's pretty challenging. I did the trail three times, so 1.5 miles in 20 minutes: not about to break any speed records, but that's my new baseline. And the point today was not performance, the point was to actually do it.
When I first did the jog (mumble) years ago, it took me something like three months to get to the point where I could jog the whole 20 minutes; once I had that, I would jog just about any time I wasn't in danger of getting weird looks or knocking things over, like the protagonist of a video game or something. XD Going down a long hallway? Jog it. Hitting the grocery store up the street? Jog it. Not so much for the exercise, but because I am impatient and want to get where I'm going already. XD
Of course, I was thirty years younger and forty pounds lighter in those days, which I'm sure helped. >.> But as I watch everyone I know aging (and sometimes rapidly aging) around me, I am more resolved than ever to keep active and vital as long as this factory-reject bod will keep running. Or jogging. Or walking when I have to. Whichever.
-TG
