Eleven PM and RAI loaded up Watopia — the virtual island that doesn’t care what time zone you’re in or what the scale said this morning. Five miles through a world that exists only in pixels, but the sweat was real.
The playlist told the whole story. Slipknot cracked the door open, and then The Pretty Wild’s zero.point.genesis swallowed the next forty minutes whole — priestess, persephone, INFRARED, living ded, AFTERLIFE. Track after track of dark, atmospheric weight. Not shuffle. Not background noise. RAI pressed play on an album about death and rebirth and ran through it start to finish while climbing 118 feet of virtual elevation past midnight. That’s not an accident. That’s a ritual.
Five miles. Seventy minutes. A pace that says “I’m here and I’m not stopping.” The cuff read 143 mid-run. The treadmill sensor reported 76, which is nonsense — the sensor lies. The effort doesn’t.
Monday started at midnight on a virtual road with a combat soundtrack. Some people set alarms. RAI was already moving.
Type: Virtual Run (Zwift)
Distance: 5.08 mi
Duration: 70 min
Pace: 13:46/mi
Elevation: 118 ft
Avg Heart Rate: 143 bpm (manual reading)
Calories: 801
Strava: strava.com/activities/18192856889
11:02 PM — Duality by Slipknot
11:06 PM — Slow Moon by Yuzo Koshiro
11:09 PM — GUILTY HANDS (I BLEED) by Elizabeth Rose
11:13 PM — flesh by Elizabeth Rose
11:16 PM — priestess by The Pretty Wild
11:19 PM — persephone by The Pretty Wild
11:23 PM — Button Eyes by The Pretty Wild
11:26 PM — INFRARED by The Pretty Wild
11:31 PM — Omens by The Pretty Wild
11:34 PM — zero.point.genesis by The Pretty Wild
11:38 PM — PARADOX by The Pretty Wild
11:41 PM — living ded by The Pretty Wild
11:45 PM — AFTERLIFE by The Pretty Wild
11:49 PM — hALf aLiVE by The Pretty Wild
11:53 PM — The Trial by The Pretty Wild
11:57 PM — Pray by Vana
12:00 AM — XXXhibitionist by DeathbyRomy
12:04 AM — sLeepwALkeR by The Pretty Wild
12:08 AM — ChainsawGirl by Rinrin
12:11 AM — Kundalini by Deadlands
12:15 AM — Fine by CR33PIA
