My first fall

...while rooning!!!

I fell down for the first time yesterday while running!!! eeyeowch!!! Jk, surprisingly nothing bad happened. My elbow is ever so slightly bruised, and I have a teeny tiny scratch on my palm that I didn't even notice until I felt a burn when showering. I also kinda turned to fall on my big fat ass (don't ask me how!) which cushioned the fall and there's not even a bruise there. Thank you, ass!!! Not gonna lie I've been scared of falls ever since I started running because both my mom and my sister are TERRIBLE at falling. Like both of them scrape 50 layers of skin on knees and palms somehow every time they fall down. This makes it sound like they fall down on regular basis, no it's like once a decade thing but each time it stays memorable because of how badly they fall down lmao. Which reminds me of something silly my mom does, STILL, she loves hiking up her bike seat incredibly high because she is very tall and has longer legs than me, but it makes it so that her feet can't touch the ground when she rides her bike, and that resulted in a few silly tip over falls over the years. Since we shared her bike in the past she'd always scold me for putting the seat down but mom, I'm worried about you along with being too lazy to put the seat up!!!

Unlike my mom and sister, I seem to have cat like reflexes bestowed upon me because I was up and running in a few seconds muahaha. Wait if I had cat like reflexes I wouldn't have fallen down in the first place, scratch that... I'm not even feeling sore today! Besides my glutes because I was doing some weird stretch yesterday meant for fixing your pelvis tilt. Which - I'm not having visible issues with anymore but I'd still like to strengthen my back and pelvis even further. Seriously though, I'm so happy my body is still at a stage where falls are not an issue, despite my height and clumsiness. I try to stay flexible and it clearly paid off.

I haven't reported on my running in a long while, but I've been doing it consistently since the day I started in March, or was it April, I don't remember. I just passed half of the mileage on my running shoes until I have to get new ones, which means I passed 350 km of rooning. I run 3 times a week with my husband, I'm happy he got into it just as much as me because runs are less boring lmao. I do tempo and interval runs once a week each and then the third run of the week is a 30 min run which I try to do at a 6 min pace. I'm still not there yet, but I'm quite close! After I reach this milestone I'll start training for 10km runs. I think 3 ~10 km runs a week will be nice for maintaining health but also not going overboard because I don't want to spend hours on end running. Maybe at some point introduce weight training too but I know myself - I don't like doing any type of "static" activity, if I'm not moving while working out I just get bored too easily lmfao, that's why I don't go to the gym.

I managed to lose the weight I gained back when I visited my family during summer, and now I'm at 62.5kg. Super happy about that. I don't really care for losing weight anymore, I just want more muscle and less fat on my upper thighs. This winter has been a wakeup call for me. I wasn't fat or chubby by any means, but I started feeling uncomfortable in my body. I started having these weird issues with my ankles and I panicked and thought it was lipedema (lol....). My ankles would be pretty achy after a long day and they had some strange fat deposits too, visible when I squeezed them. However, now that I've been running and stretching for a while, they're totally gone, so I'm thinking it's just a weird way in which my body distributes fat. I don't think I have lipedema because there's no noticeable cankle effect you'd usually see, but ever since I hit 18 I had this weird "ring" of fat/water around my ankle that's really only noticeable by me (and my dad apparently because he once commented I have stronger ankles than my mom, even though he's not the type to give anyone inappropriate body comments LMAO), especially in my right ankle. Furthermore, lipedema isn't asymmetrical usually... And like I said, now that I lost some weight it's all gone while lipedema fat stays forever until surgeried. My aunt has a similar thing so it's probably weird genetics shit. I really let it get into my head for a while, but then when I started running I totally forgot about it and just remembered this panic moment yesterday when I was browsing my phones gallery lmao.