Steadfast as the Hills of Stone

Mianevem

Mianevem

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Thursday, Sept 21

Evening
-- Days 18-21 of The Miner | with optional quest
-- Tempered Steel | lvl I
-- Biceps Only | 8 kg dumbbells

Friday, Sept 22

Before breakfast
-- untracked walk | day 45 of 60 Days of Walking

Late morning
-- part II of 60 Days of Walking | lvl III | walking

Afternoon
-- 36 min base run

Evening
-- untracked walk

Saturday, Sept 23

Throughout the day
packing and cleaning in the old flat (mostly my fiancé because I had some work to do)

Evening
Concert with friends! We went to see Paddy and the Rats, which is a great band, but the acoustics and/or the technical side of the audio was horrible…


 
Gandhalfit

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"Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being... it is up to all of us to become his moral superior. Vetinari/Pratchett"
Mianevem said:
Uh-oh, it looks like my previous post got lost somewhere... I don't remember the exact workouts I did from 18 to 20, but there was nothing unusual training-wise. What was unusual though is that we were moving. We're mostly done, all the furniture have been put together in the new (noticeably bigger) flat, and most of our stuff is already unpacked. There are still some things we need to carry here from the old flat which we also need to clean (painting is mostly done).

We had one rough night when we had no idea where the cat was... there were some scheduling issues with the transportation of the furniture, and, long story short, Potyka got very scared and stressed, and he hid before we could put him in his carrier. We thought he was under the bathtub, since he knew he was unreachable there, but after things were settled and I checked there, he was nowhere to be found... and there were no furniture left where he could have hidden. Next day there was still no sign of him, and the treats we left in the bathroom weren't even touched. We were worried that he either escaped the building (which would have been strange, because the only way out was the source of the scary noises), or that he fell into the vent hole and got hurt and stuck without us being able to get him out... At some point we finally heard him from  behind the bathtub, where he had climbed onto the tubes, and my fiancé managed to bribe him out with his favorite food...

Of course he was quite stressed at the new place, too, but now, a couple of days later, he's starting to get used to it. In the beginning, he stayed in the bedroom, and we kept the door closed so he would feel safer, especially at night when we were there with him for hours. Since then we could finally move his stinky food to the kitchen, because he's not scared to go there anymore. The transition was cute, he kept sneaking out of the bedroom to check one thing or another then sprinted back under the bed, to safety. :LOL: I think we can say that all is well now: today, instead of spending most of his time under the bed, he kept meowing and scratching at the door of the living room because he wanted to explore there, and, once his wish was granted, he tried to occupy as much space in the middle of it as possible.

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Poor guy and poor you. A true horror story so I'm glad it has a happy ending.
 
PetiteSheWolf

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Ah, the scare! I feel for you! Glad that Potyka is over the move-stress and starting to take possession of its new kingdom. And isn't it funny how they can stretch and take so much place? :heart: Less funny when it's your own bed and you're being pushed to the side, LOL, but still, they are KINGS.
 
Mianevem

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Thank you, @Gandhalfit , @JCU , @NancyTree , @PetiteSheWolf ! :love:

Sunday, Sept 24

Throughout the day
-- packing and cleaning in the old flat

Evening
-- 25 min run

Monday, Sept 25

Morning
45 min run:
-- 10 min warmup
-- 3x: 7 min @ 170 bpm | 2 min walk
-- 10 min cooldown

Throughout the day
-- cleaning the old flat

Evening
-- Days 22-25 of The Miner | with optional quest
 
Mianevem

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Thursday, Sept 28

We tried a gym close to our new place. It isn't as good as the previous one was, but I think I'll get used to it. The music, of course, is not my taste at all here either.

Midday at the gym
-- Days 26-28 of The Miner | with optional quest
-- First row of Pull A before my fiancé announced that he was done with his own workout | bicep curls with 7 kg, bent over rows with 7-8-9 kg, upright rows with 9 kg dumbbells
 
Gandhalfit

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"Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being... it is up to all of us to become his moral superior. Vetinari/Pratchett"
I've never been to gym but, is the music that horrible? Can you put on headphones and listen to whatever you want or is the music too loud for that? Do they take requests 🤔 👀 😳
 
Mianevem

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@Gandhalfit our first day there it was mostly techno and dubstep stuff with disgusting macho lyrics like "bend that ass girl" and similar. It's hard to convince yourself to do squats to such songs... The next day there were old and iconic Hungarian songs which you only hear at wedding parties -- that was very strange. Today there was light pop music, which was at least easy not to get distracted by. So there's some variety, it seems.
Headphones don't work, the music is too loud, especially where the free weights are. Luckily there's a separate little room with two treadmills and enough space for warmup/stretching/bodyweight exercises, and the speakers are pleasantly far away from there. And there's absolutely no music in the cardio room upstairs.
I'm not sure about them taking requests, I might try it many months from now, when I don't feel like a stranger anymore. 😳

Friday, Sept 29

Morning at the gym
-- Not Perfect | lvl I
-- Core Stability | with EC
 
Gandhalfit

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"Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being... it is up to all of us to become his moral superior. Vetinari/Pratchett"
It seems like a wide variety. I hope you could handle it and don't have to spend all your time in the separate room.
 
Mianevem

Mianevem

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@Gandhalfit I'm very sensitive to noises, and I'm especially annoyed by music when I'm trying to sleep, but luckily I can easily disregard it when I'm working out. :happy:

Saturday, Sept 30

Afternoon at the gym
-- Days 29-30 of The Miner | with optional quest
-- Legs A | squats and reverse lunges with 7 kg, calf raises with 10 kg dumbbells, goblet squat with a 10 kg dumbbell, single-leg deadlifts: no time for those…
 
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