FFX-2 – Part 2: Race to the Top

Summary: Shinra tutorials. Ruins floating above Gagazet. Losing a race to the Leblanc Syndicate. Festivalist for the rest of us.

FFX-2 – Part 1: YRP

Summary: Singing, dancing, gunslinging Yuna. Rikku and Paine. Leblanc. Magical girl transformations. Gullwings aboard the Celsius. High quantities of pure joy.

FFX: Eternal Calm

Summary: Two years later, Yuna and Rikku prepare for a new adventure.

FFX – Part 65: Final Buzzer

Summary: Final thoughts on Final Fantasy X.

FFX – Part 64: Dream’s End

Summary: Sin’s Core. Jecht, Braska’s Final Aeon. Yu Yevon. The end of Final Fantasy X.

FFX – Part 63: El Ganador

Summary: Into Sin. Sea of Sorrow. Cactuar Village solved. Garden of Pain – Seymour’s pain. Yuna sends him.

FFX – Part 62: El Perdedor

Summary: Revisiting the Ixion and Shiva fayths. Trying to solve the mystery of the Sanubia Desert, trying to access a cactuar village and ultimately failing.

FFX – Part 61: Fayth in Dark Places

Summary: Finishing off the secrets in the Besaid and Kilika temples. Saying hello to some old fayths. Anima. Magus Sisters. Farewell to Belgemine.

FFX – Part 60: Close Encounters

Summary: Final attempts at Dark Yojimbo. Playing with weapon/armor customization. Sin goes down. (For now.)

FFX – Part 59: Eternal Summoner

Summary: Dark Valefor. Dark Ixion. Highbridge meetings with Shelinda, Mika, and the Bevelle Fayth. Planning for Yu Yevon.

FFX – Part 58: Omega Ruins Coldrun

Summary: Dark Bahamut. The brutal ordeal of the Omega Ruins. Ultima Weapon goes down. Omega Weapon does not.

FFX – Part 57: Big Game Hunter

Summary: Masamune. Dark Ifrit. Yevon/Sin history. Dark Anima. My first arena victory.

FFX – Part 56: Treasure Hunt

Summary: More of me getting obliterated in the Calm Lands Arena with one near-victory. Nirvana. Following ancient Al Bhed messages through Calm Lands. Godhand.

Coldrun Fitness - Chipping Away

Summary: 2,530 calories.  Short Pokewalk.  A good day.

Coldrun Fitness - Morning After

Summary: Playing with a new FF playthrough-style format. 2,400 calories. Cooked dinner, yay!

FFX – Part 55: Mirror Pilgrimage

Summary: Continuing to backtrack. Djose Road, Moonflow, Guadosalam, Thunder Plains, Macalania. Dark Ixion. Dark Shiva. Some Jecht’s spheres. Cloudy Mirror gets an upgrade.

FFX – Part 54: Victorious

Summary: Getting my ass handed to me in the Calm Lands Arena. Mushroom Rock Road. Young!Auron and Young!Kinoc. The first Al Bhed password.

FFX – Part 53: Delta Attack

Summary: Kilika, Luca, Mi’ihen Highroad, and Mushroom Rock Road revisited. The Magus Sisters return.

FFX – Part 52: A Sort of Homecoming

Summary: Return to Besaid. Dark Valefor. Besaid Falls. Blocked in Baaj Temple.

Coldrun Fitness - One Step Back

FFX – Part 51: Head Meets Wall

Summary: Revisiting the Calm Lands Arena. Earth Eater. A huge fucking waste of time spent on Dark Yojimbo. I am so in the weeds with Dark Yojimbo.

Fair warning – this is probably the most negative I’ve felt coming out of an FF session since I bashed my head against Ultimecia in FFVIII on the first night of attempts.

Coldrun Fitness - These Boots Aren't Made for Walking

Coldrun Fitness - Presence

I want this process to be joyful.  Energetic.  I hate hiding inside myself and being ashamed of my body.  I want to become a physical being.  Someone fully there.  Not hiding.

11/2/16 weight: 271.6 lbs

FFX – Part 50: Auroch Dynasty

Summary: The Besaid Aurochs win the second league season and the second tournament. I discover a host of new places to explore via the airship interface.

FFX – Part 49: New Directions

Summary: An unusually civil encounter with Sin. Regrouping aboard Cid’s airship. League blitzball.