Counting...

I'm a humare for 2 weeks now... no, almost 3... and I ran... I have no idea whatsoever how many laps.

Does it matter? Seems I lost count. Just like I thought I would. I'll see when I get out.
The only indication I have about how I am doing is trying to peek at the 24 hours and week charts. And that still requires some math to get out any useful information. If I even get on those charts, that is.

In the beginning that seemed easy, I was like the only mare actually doing some laps, so to my own surprise I was first on both charts. But meanwhile some mares have entered with muuuuch more time on their RL hands apparently, doing laps and laps and laps.

It's not really motivating me. But do I envy them? I don't think so. I have a RL at least!

But this RL is preventing me from doing laps on the other hand. If - I say if - I would be able to log on every day in the week and run like I have been running the last 2 or 3 times I have been on, I would easily get to those 1000 laps a week. But I'm not.

So when I'm on and I am lucky enough to have someone let me out of the stable to run, I think I do pretty well. Even though falling asleep sometimes makes me run over middle of the court instead of following the fence, so the stable Mistress thought I was trying to cheat. I'm not. I'm fighting sleep, and lag, and sleeping and hurting hands and fingers. I'm not even fighting boredom, surprisingly.
Good subs don't get bored?! Or they can deal with it?!

It's weird anyway how any distraction in the silent, restricted world of a humare becomes entertaining. The mare hearing doesn't let me understand any chat, except for a very few words I "learned", like "mare" and "good", but I hear people are talking around me. And emotes... emotes are exciting, since we mares get most of them!
Mares also don't get names, but some parts of names slip through this RLV restriction, and you learn to recognise your folks on sight. That's important. Mares can "nuzzle", but for that you need to know at least a part of the name.
Of course while running around a mare hasn't got too much time to gaze around. The eye holes and blinkers take care of that. A mare wouldn't be a mare without them.
And of course the mouselook plays its role too in restricting perception. Like lots of people in sl, I used to not like to be forced to mouselook. And depending on how it's implemented, this might be still the case: it's the chat spam some implementations generate that I can't stand, as I need to leave mouselook to switch to another window on my computer (RL sometimes happens!) and when I return to sl then, I would like to be still able to follow conversation. So for me, a good mouselook enforcer just blocks sight when not in mouselook, without producing endless chat spam.
Same for cam restriction, which is, in my eyes, a soft form of mouselook. Or better: mouselook is the strongest form of cam restriction. I think - and I know I'm not alone - an avatar is not really imprisoned in a cage or cell, if they can still cam out of it.

But... I need to stop now.

Just this: seems next week my RL will even be more busy than last week.... sigh

whinnies!