Disclaimer: this post is mainly serving as self-motivation and has great potential to be boring and irrelevent.
When I'm out of the cesspit (box room: Middlesbrough), there are some clear goals I've got to meet for my own sanity.
I had a horrid realisation that come June I will be 20, and since I was 17/18 I've made no headway on fell running and simply slipped backwards into a vegetable state. I was doing quite well too, and if I let more years slip by I'll feel like I missed an opportunity for no real reason.
It doesn't even have to be an opportunity to make a team, finish in a certain place or time or beat someone. It's more about having the capacity to walk up a mountain without stumbling around and drowning in my own sweat. Running is a way to clear your mind and achieve something in just a few hours. I'll probably start using this blog to update my progress and keep focused.
I want to live a more scheduled life that no longer centres around my computer. To do this I must avoid the temptation to renew my Age of Conan account, however, I dearly miss Gingerwookie, her long red hair, riding a horse coloured like a bowl of milk and corn flakes, and running errands for Captain Redrik in Tortage. Imagine Mick Hucknall, who is infact a stacked seasoned warrior with a badass Scottish accent, baring a braided red beard and captaining a ship. This is why video games are fabulous and possibly why I don't have a social life at the moment. If I pick up running with a giant club and a cloak made from a bear pelt, you know why.
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This is so bizarre.
I just checked your profile again on Gameleon, and this time decided to visit your blog. As the page loaded, I was thinking - damn - this girl is only 19, but already developing iPhone games, and will be running her own development studio in her placement year, whilst I'm 27 and where the hell is my life at..!? (I too need to escape a box room for my own sanity...)
So to see you having a midlife crisis at 20, was pretty amusing - but given that it's to do with sport, there may be something in keeping it up, 'fore you get out of practice. I think I spoke to you before about having always wanted to do fell running, but having lost my focus from staring at computer screens, I'm crap at judging the depth needed for leaps of faith. ;-)
That said, I've been trying to set goals of my own recently, and, after originally losing my glasses on the tube in 2002, I've finally booked myself in for an eyetest this Wednesday. ^_^ Now, if only I could complete Megaman X3 on the Saturn...(actually...I'm making good progress at the moment, ^_^).
I think that's a problem with running we both share - I need glasses but would never wear them running, we have fantastic potential to get lost and bump into trees :)
Heehee...I remember my concept of fell running was a bit weak...I think you mentioned something about flags to me on Games Press, but I'd have to revisit the thread to recall...but I just used to run very fast down tricky terrain when our parents took us on walking holidays...so stuff like running on lots of small stones, that move beneath your feet, and you have to be very quick on your toes to avoid falling, or, going down steep banks and dodging tree trunks (you have to look ahead to where your next step is gonna be, 'cos there are lots of obstacles), ... I think probably if it was just a grassy hill, I'd be okay despite the lack of glasses. ^_^
Or something like Eastdale Tarn [did I get the name right?] where there's a well trodden path up the hill.
But yeah, I've never done it as a sport.
I went to Reading on Sunday, took the train, and read the on-train magazine...it mentioned local events and apparently Gloucester has an annual Cheese Chasing event, where they roll cheese down a hill, and run after it. ^_^
All this said...I'm not actually an outdoor person. ;-) Unless you count running for the bus as an urban sport. ^_^ Teehee...
Nice to see someone go for something they enjoy, even more so if they'll share it.
I've purposely stuck to my computer (got tons of things to do on it! yes, a lot of games too...heh), although for far too long - I do need to get out and about. I've booked holiday time (to conferences, but hey, it's things I enjoy and locales I can get to do other things at), and so forth, but man, on the physical side, I don't even go swimming anymore.
Time to get back into it, me thinks, since this is pretty inspiring to see :) Not that I'm a good swimmer mind you, a lazy hour and I'm more then done...one can dream I'll get better if I actually go consistently though.
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