Giraffe, Shark, Rabbit Pt.1
Day 1: Giraffe Hello. My name is Charlie Rizzo. I’m a 42 year old male. I like to smoke weed and exercise. Sometimes separately, sometimes at the same time. My favorite time to exercise is when I’m just starting to come down from the high, as is my plan this afternoon. Recently, I’ve started playing an exercise game called ‘Giraffe, Shark, Rabbit.’ He’s how I play it: When I go for a jog, I run for about 20 minutes. For the first 5 minutes I run, pretending that I am a giraffe. I’m jogging, but deliberating keeping my pace low. I’d say I’m giving about 50-60% of what I’m capable of. Then I pretend I’m a shark for 3 minutes. Going as hard as I can, bringing that effort up to about 90% I sound like a cartoon character panting and gasping for air as I do this. It really gets my heart rate going BOOM BOOM BOOM! Then, for 4 minutes, I pretend that I’m a rabbit. Specifically, I pretend to be a Bunny character from a children’s book that I wrote and illustrated. This Bunny is very chil