Running
I'm a runner, have I mentioned that? I run. Frequently I do so even when I'm not being chased.
If there were an justice in this world bending physics to my will and mastering the very laws of the cosmos the power of my mind would burn a calorie or two. But it doesn't, it just give me headaches. Basically I've got a desk job that would leave me seriously scrawny if I didn't get some exercise.
So tonight, I headed out for a short trot. I was initially going to lift weights, but I decided I wanted something that would make me sweat a little. Plus, for some strange reason, I thought I was feeling sufficiently peppy to think I could make a fast job of it.
When I got on the road all my legs produced a slow bouncy pace which they swore it was their best and produced a twinge in my knee to prove it. I did manage to take a long route. I looped down maple street, past the movie theater, out along that twisty road they've built for the new developments to the west of town, then a short dash behind the Oak Glen strip mall back to maple and my apartment complex.
Related: for a few weeks I've been working on a spell to improve muscle growth. Muscles grow (in part) because they get a bunch of tiny rips in them when they flex really hard. As the body repairs that tissue it puts in a bit of extra tissue and the muscle gets bigger.
Like David I'd like to make a spell I can sell and get rich. It seems like it would be pretty easy to put a bunch of tiny rips in something magically. Unfortunately muscle growth is not quite that simple. You also need a bunch of hormones to trigger the process, and the rips have to be in exactly the right places. The big corporations are always looking for ways to turn out biologicals, so I don't suppose there would be any simple way to convince the body to make the correct set.
Still, it's something to kick around in my off hours and I think I may be very close to an incantation that will tenderize meat like a beaut. If you'll excuse me I must go whip up a protean shake.
If there were an justice in this world bending physics to my will and mastering the very laws of the cosmos the power of my mind would burn a calorie or two. But it doesn't, it just give me headaches. Basically I've got a desk job that would leave me seriously scrawny if I didn't get some exercise.
So tonight, I headed out for a short trot. I was initially going to lift weights, but I decided I wanted something that would make me sweat a little. Plus, for some strange reason, I thought I was feeling sufficiently peppy to think I could make a fast job of it.
When I got on the road all my legs produced a slow bouncy pace which they swore it was their best and produced a twinge in my knee to prove it. I did manage to take a long route. I looped down maple street, past the movie theater, out along that twisty road they've built for the new developments to the west of town, then a short dash behind the Oak Glen strip mall back to maple and my apartment complex.
Related: for a few weeks I've been working on a spell to improve muscle growth. Muscles grow (in part) because they get a bunch of tiny rips in them when they flex really hard. As the body repairs that tissue it puts in a bit of extra tissue and the muscle gets bigger.
Like David I'd like to make a spell I can sell and get rich. It seems like it would be pretty easy to put a bunch of tiny rips in something magically. Unfortunately muscle growth is not quite that simple. You also need a bunch of hormones to trigger the process, and the rips have to be in exactly the right places. The big corporations are always looking for ways to turn out biologicals, so I don't suppose there would be any simple way to convince the body to make the correct set.
Still, it's something to kick around in my off hours and I think I may be very close to an incantation that will tenderize meat like a beaut. If you'll excuse me I must go whip up a protean shake.
posted by Joel at 4:37 PM
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