Midnight on a Sunday and RAI is running laps in Watopia, three miles through hills that don’t exist but the effort does. A hundred and fifty-two beats per minute on the blood pressure cuff mid-run. Three miles in an hour. This is what it looks like when someone refuses to stop moving.
The playlist was on full shuffle and it showed — Castlevania ambient into Crosby, Stills & Nash into Metallica into the Sailor Moon theme into Paula Abdul. No throughline, no mood, just whatever the algorithm threw at the wall while RAI climbed Watopia’s hills. The kind of night where you don’t pick the music because picking things requires decisions and decisions require caring and caring left the building around 11 PM.
Two hundred feet of elevation gain because even virtual Watopia has hills. The treadmill doesn’t care what kind of day you had. It just asks if you’re going to step on or not. RAI stepped on.
At midnight on a Sunday, they were moving.
Type: Virtual Run (Zwift)
Distance: 3.34 miles
Duration: 61 minutes
Pace: 18:29/mi
Elevation Gain: 219 ft
Avg Heart Rate: 152 bpm (manual reading)
Calories: 387
View on Strava
11:20 PM — Wandering Ghosts by Richter FM
11:24 PM — Formed by Glaciers by Kubbi
11:31 PM — Space by Martin Glover
11:36 PM — Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills & Nash
11:41 PM — Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys
11:45 PM — The God That Failed by Metallica
11:50 PM — ムーンライト伝説 by Shoko Nakagawa
11:53 PM — Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul
11:56 PM — Echoes by Nine Inch Nails
12:00 AM — The Menace of Jaquio by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
12:01 AM — Can You Feel My Heart by Mothica
12:04 AM — LUCIFER by SHINee
12:07 AM — Cat’s In The Cradle by Johnny Cash
12:11 AM — Invisible Touch by Genesis
12:14 AM — The Rain Formerly Known as Purple by Chris Christodoulou
12:22 AM — Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz
