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What the fuck is wrong with people? That's an antagonistic opening line for a post about running but it's on my mind as I walk to the park. Late, sun on my back, a spontaneous decision this morning to go. It's hot again. We've had a couple of amazing days of cooler weather, and I've had a couple of fun nights out, but I knew this ceasefire wouldn't last long, and I can feel it at the edges of the day again now, that clawing heat that sucks energy and demands to be seen. The kind of heat that boils your blood, makes just taking a single step an act of Olympic fortitude. So, what the fuck is wrong with people? We went for dinner last night with friends, and their mobile phone addicted four year old daughter. I get it, being a parent is hard, I have my own troubles I've detailed extensively on this app, but this girl demands, and they parents give her what they want. They joke about it, she's in control, they say, she gives orders. They're scared of the reaction, or just so tired by it all, they give in.
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Add to this, the other family that is having dinner with us, two children of their own. One ten, who has her own mobile phone, another who is three who ten minutes after us arriving is given a mobile phone by her father to show my children and my friends children pictures of a party from their town they went to the day before yesterday, and then is left with it, scrolling, messing around, to do whatever she wants. It's incredible, the father remarks, how adept she is art handling it. How she knows how to scroll already. Again, what the fuck is wrong with people? I'm angry. I don't know these people but I need to say something. I know my friends, I know the problems they have with their daughter, but I know this is not the way. Six kids, the youngest three years old, my two, outside in an area they can play, and should be playing, a park nearby, places to investigate, and invent, and be kids, and they are all sat around two mobile phones, glued to the screens. It's driving me mad. I get up, come on, I say
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who wants to play? We didn't come here to sit in front of mobile phones. We've got a TV at home. Either we play or we're going home. No one else seems to care. We're robbing our kids of their childhood. It's like a fucking drug and parents need to do better. It saddens me and annoys me and It's a constant battle whenever I'm out with that family, or my partners sisters family who do the same, or the many other people who do the same. Again, do better. I carry that thought around with me as I run. I'm angry that this is a battle I'm going to have to fight for as long as I can. My daughter is active but loves the screen. Put one in front of her and she can sit for hours on end. Who isn't addicted? This isn't some get out of being a parent hack, or some cute look at how cool my kid is thing, it's way more serious than that. We'll see the consequences soon enough, if we're not seeing them already. I do 5km without stopping. My plan is intervals but I feel good round the first lap and decide to keep going
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as long as I can. It's 27 minutes of running, before I break for a three minute walk and then I fall into the interval part and do 6 running 3 walking and so on. I feel strong enough, despite the heat, and make my way through the one hour session more or less without issue. I don't know how far I've gone until the session has ended, though, and I'm pissed off when I find out it's less than I expect. I walk for a bit mulling it over, a little bit in disbelief. Remember I ran the first 5km without stopping, which means I've run more than usual during this workout. I try to convince myself it's okay but it doesn't work. So I fire up again and run the distance that's missing to take myself over 10km. I do 9.77km in 1hr at a pace of 6.09m per km and a running pace of 5.35m per km (not sure if this is entirely accurate as I ran some of the initial walking sections) and 0.31km in 1.47m at a pace of 5.43m per km juts to make it over 10km. Best pace apparently was 4.20m per km but no idea for how long.
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