Structure

I think I may be starting to get some kind of structure in my life, for the first time in a very long while, although it might be too early to tell, and I might relapse at any given moment.

A lot has to do with me finally realizing that the real secret to Warcraft is just not being retarded, and that the biggest time sink is probably hanging out with stupid people, that fuck stuff up, get you killed, and make you have to do the same encounters over and over again.

The game mechanics are pretty damn simple; monsters attack the guy they percieve as the biggest threat, so make sure you've got a plate wearing bad-ass filling that roll, keep him alive, and you're pretty much done. With a few twists, of course, but that's pretty much it. The retards are the toilet paper wearing mages, who do a shitload of damage, piss the monsters off, get killed in 2 blows, and pretty much screw the group over. And the paladins.


Anyway, with that out of the way, I realize that I can safely spend the better part of the morning and afternoon actually doing useful stuff. Like.. uhm.. well.. I've finally started going to the gym, which is good.


It sucks that you can't really compare running on a treadmill to running out in the open air, and I think it's basically just a stupid technical hurdle, having to do with treadmills not having a negative gradient. Or that's what I keep telling myself.

A couple of months ago, I started running a 10km circuit, that took around 53 minutes or so to complete. The circuit had a few killer hills, and a few really nice downhill runs, but the majority was flat, open country running, and I loved it.

The problem with running at the gym is that the circuits don't obey Kirchovs (sp?) Law, saying that the sum of all slopes has to be zero, ie you end up at the place you started. I can choose a few different profiles, but none of them have any real downhill running, so you can't really get your strength back.

I guess I really just want to be able to compare the outdoor circuit with the indoor circuit, and know that it's doing me as much good. I don't really care that much for explosive muscles, I just want to be able to keep bitching for a long time, and I want to know that the 20 minute, around 4% up hill, run I'm doing at the moment is giving me this.


Oh yeah, in case you're wondering, it's narcissism, not vanity, baby!