Heroic Deed: Slow & Steady

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Available to the Fighter and Thief core classes and their subclasses and to CLE/MAG 1+ and Sohei 3+. When you successfully activate this deed, any hasted foes lose haste, you and your allies and foes alike lose de-buffs and negative status, and — if they don't successfully save versus spells — also lose any buffs. Your own buffs are not affected. Everyone within sixty feet of you is affected. For each foe that loses any buffs, there is a 1% that you gain one percentile point to your Wisdom score. Regardless of whether you successfully activate this Heroic Deed, you gain 10 HP when it is attempted. You may not attempt this deed more than once in a given combat round.

Sluggish run today

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I waited till about 9:00 am to run this Saturday morning, waited for the humidity to continue dropping from the 95% mark when I woke at 6:15 am. I couldn't delay too long, though, because the temperature was slowly climbing. Started my jog about 9:20 at 85% humidity and 66° F and finished over 90 minutes later at 80% humidity and 73° F.

I must admit, I wasn't feeling it today. I was sluggish (an average pace of 11'18"). Apparently, there were two runs going on in Columbia today, one put on by Lindsey Wilson College and another by the VFW. I saw on FB that one of my running buddy's wife did her first ever 5K today.

Hopefully, this Summer heat will soon break. This whole week it's been in the upper 80s when I get off work, 90-92° with the heat index. Too hot to run in; for me, at least. Today was my first run in a week. I want to get back to 2-3 runs per week. I think that even at 5-7 miles per run, that frequency does my more good.

Since October 2016, I've been using a C# console program I wrote to track my daily caloric intake versus output and track the most recent ten days' average caloric deficit. I plan on writing a post about it, demonstrating how to use it. And I'll probably make the source code available in case anyone wants to improve it. Obviously, a GUI version would appeal to more people, but at the time I wrote it I was looking to get something functional ASAP as well as gain experience CLI programming using the Microsoft C# compiler, csc.exe. I used Notepad++ as my editor.