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Quiescence of the brain through less use/ease of running/endurance

Brain training the acc. Long runs at low intensity. Helps brain to resist fatigue.

“We already know that inducing fatigue in the body through exercise triggers adaptations that make the body more resistant to fatigue in the future. Brain fatigue works the same way.”

“Mostly slow training [80/20] also does a better job of strengthening the parts of the brain where tolerance for suffering resides”.

“Runners are generally quite willing to suffer, but they need a reason”. Hahahahahhaaa

Interleukin-6 (IL-6)- [slow and steady wins the race, by small and simple things are great things brought to pass]

“The key requirement for strengthening the arobic system is stress. Unless you subject your arobic system to a significantly greater challenge than it faces when you are at rest it will not adapt.”

My nurse… reached up and slapped his hand. Hahahaha

Normally, I scorned such sentiments. Now, in the face of such universal animosity, one understood the point of those safe prisons.

I begged God to show me the reason for all the [spoilers]. He knew what that reason was, and I had faith I would receive illumination. God was not so much inscrutable as expectant. The Dear Lord wanted me to use what he gave me; my mind could comprehend all if asked with the proper, humble supplication.

I comprehended the noose with which they’d hung themselves.

“Wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from unwise decisions, so – when you’re wise in one area, you’ll be tested in another.”

“I could tell Papà wanted to pat me on the head and tell me to mind my weaving, but a man was six daughters knew better than to dismiss their acumen.” Ha ha ha, wise man.

“Should I plan a wedding?…”Or a killing?” Hahahahhaha

“He’s such a cold fish, I would have never thought. But-“ she shrugged- “I suppose he is a man.” Hahahaha

“Both would have been quiet, proper replies. Instead, I snapped, “I’m not stupid!”” -We’ve all done this…

When we cross as girls, we’re slashed by thorns and whipped by awkwardness, and on the other side, we are one with womanhood, but we are never as we were before. We are, in many ways, strangers to ourselves.

“It’s perfectly natural. The place between childhood and womanhood is a wilderness of briars and monsters. We all must cross.”

There was so much to learn and so much to do. And so much to eat and feel and think and be!

…winter was the perfect time for dreaming.

“I suppose I choose to think it will all be okay because then at least, even if I can’t control what happens, I can control how I feel about it.”

“Pain doesn’t require approval.”

It was easier when she was looking at the words. She’d always taken refuge in words whenever anything was difficult or confusing or too much. They were both her shelter and her shield.

“People aren’t necessarily logical. Especially if they’re in pain.”

None of them could change what happened; all they could do was shape what happened next.

It felt good to ache; it meant she could feel.

“… I was never allowed to help at all. I was decorative.”

“It’s not a coincidence. I’m meant to be here.”