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So, my birthday is tomorrow. Any advice for fighting the "birthday blues"? Particularly around feelings of having wasted one's life, being an utter failure as a human being, and yet likely still having so many more (pointless, futile) years ahead to suffer through?
I'm in favor of both birthday themed workouts, adjusted to whatever level or style you like, with an arbitrary number related to your age.
This year, I was working late, and for various personal crisis reasons I didn't really want to do anything major, so I told my wife I wanted to get a little high and get a big takeout order of boneless wings and watch an old horror movie. While this was hardly the world's most decadent thing, it was a clear indulgence, and it was exactly what I wanted.
I can just about swim to save my life right now but that's it. Someone told me about a "birthday set" in swimming, 100x100 on 1:40 (i.e., 100sec) and I'm tempted to see if I can get there in time for my next birthday.
I had to look this up to make sure I was reading this correctly...100x100, so 10,000m? 10k? So like three hours of swimming at that pace? That's genuinely insane to me. I've done a mile, but that? That's crazy.
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