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interesting. i'm sure motivation is part of it.

- warm up x 1 km; tempo x 2 km [3:53, 4:14]; cool down x .94 km
downhill-uphill out and back for the tempo. way too fast on the downhill bit, meant to dial it back because dew point is 72/22 here today. uphill bit was even a little faster than i meant to go, was shooting for ~4:20. i guess that means i'm fitter than i think? or just bad at speed regulation. idk. at any rate kept it short because of the heat.

- stretch

so, so very humid. cooling off and gonna grab lunch now and then head down to a protest march. bringing lots of water.

Are you confident that you’ll never be back there?

Too confident. No way. I’d die before I go to jail. That’s all I needed to see. And it’s different being a celebrity getting in trouble [than] a regular person getting in trouble. If I went to prison right now, I’d be lit. Prison now wouldn’t even faze me, honestly. But in my mind, I ain’t even dumb enough to think like that. I trained myself to think about how it was then. Hell nah, I’ll never go back.

Did you ever foresee rap as a path for you?

I never saw me being a rapper. A big-dog dope boy, that’s it. Not even just a dope boy. That’s why I ain’t got no tattoos, because I always knew I was going to run my money up, and I was going to have to go sit in front of some people to do something with my money. And I didn’t want them to look at me like a dope boy. I had to keep my appearance straight. I literally said, “When I sit down in front of these white folks, I don’t want to have no tattoos.” In a way, it’s still that today. Because when I’m sitting in these meetings, I don’t have tattoos on my face. I know they’d have to think something if I’ve got tattoos on my face.

Have you ever met another rapper with no tattoos?

Nope.

Lmao, cut my right ring finger/nail open cooking last night (super blunt knife slid off an onion, need to sharpen). Fairly deep cut, so hanging is pretty painful. Amusingly, this is also what happened the last time I trained? Anyway, that's annoying but hopefully won't be an impediment for too long.