Love2Run

Happy New Year!

Things have settled down a little in my life. I have made some major decisions for my future, and also running with the team at school has come to an end, so I have more time to write on the blog. As a New Year's resolution I will try to be more faithful in writing.

AM: Ran 10 miles easy. It is New Year's morning and there is a Shrine near my home. There were many people coming and going from the shrine this morning. I will try to get in another run this afternoon.

Today I will spend a relaxing day watching the pro Ekiden race on TV.

There will be Ekiden on TV for the next three days. The Japanese love watching Ekiden.

PM: 6 miles easy.

Also, I ate too much today. :)

AM: Had a hard time getting out of bed this morning. It is the coldest day of winter so far and I just didn't feel like going out, but I decided I would just go out for an easy recovery run. Did about 6 easy miles. Maybe 7 minute pace.

Going to watch the first half of the "Hakone Ekiden" today.

I am cheering for the Tokai University team, because I did volunteer work with them at last spring's World Relays here in Japan, and got to be friends with a couple of the members on the team.

AM:

Started this morning with a 5 mile progression run. ( I have no idea what my pace was, because the battery in my watch has died.)

Then did 10 x 400m hills (walk down the hills after each)

Finished off with a cool down to reach about 12 miles.

I will watch the second half of the Hakone Ekiden today.

I am cheering for Tokai University. They are currently about 3 minutes behind that leader.

It has been a fast race this year. Nearly every stage record has been broken, and the course record for the first half of the race was also broken by the first four teams.

It is probably because nearly every runner is wearing the NIKE Vaporfly shoes.

Below is a link to a summary of the first day of the race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=cPvgb0s_ovo&feature=emb_logo

I will run more this afternoon.

PM:

6 easy miles

AM: About 8 miles at a fairly good pace to end out the week. Aoyama Gakuin University won the Hakone Ekiden. The team I was cheering for, Tokai University, had the fastest time over the return course on the second da, but it was not enough to catch Aoyama. Tokai University finished in second place. Both Aoyama and Tokai broke the existing course record. A link for the highlights of the second day is below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=343&v=IOfrAziqreE&feature=emb_logo

Went to church today. I am looking forward to Sunday school this year at church. We will be studying the Book of Mormon, which is my favorite scripture. I am always very thankful for those on the blog a few years ago that introduced me to the LDS church and the Book of Mormon. It has changed my life for the better.

I walked a mile from my home to the train station, then from the next train station I walked another mile and a half to the church. So for a round trip it was 5 miles of walking.

AM:

Ran a warm up.

Then 10 x 1000m fast (I don't know the time for the intervals because I still haven't replace the battery for my watch.)

Cool down to 10 miles.

PM:

8 miles easy

AM:

Did an easy 6 miles today. Felt a little sore from yesterday, so I thought it would be good to have an easy recovery day today.

AM:

It was raining this morning so I didn't go out running. One of the best things about running and training on my own instead of on a team is that when it is raining like it is today, I can roll over and go back to sleep instead of going out running, and I don't have to feel guilty about it. It is supposed to be nice weather this afternoon, so later today I will try to go for a nice run.

PM:

6 easy miles.  The sun came out and it was nice and warm this afternoon.

AM:

1 mile warm up.

Very fast 6 mile run. ( I really need to get my watch fixed. I would've really liked to have had a watch to time this run, because it really felt fast.)

1 mile cool down

AM:

3 mile warm up run. 10 x 400 meter hill sprints (walk down recovery) Cool down run to reach 10 miles.

PM:

8 easy miles. 

Went to a sushi restaurant for dinner tonight and ate too much.  

AM:  

6 easy miles.  Today is going to be a recovery day.

AM:

Went to church. Total of about 5 miles of walking in going to and coming home from church.

PM:

Just relaxed watching TV.

AM:

Warm up.

Ran 5K in 18:15.  Not a hard pace. No heavy breathing.  Legs started to feel it a little at the end.

I have a 10K race this coming weekend.

I would like to run about this pace for the 10K.

Cool down to about 6 miles.

PM:

6 easy miles.

AM:

3 mile easy run.

Did some hill sprints.  I usually do 10 x 400m hill sprints, but today they were doing some kind of construction work at the bottom of the hill, so I had to run a shortened version of the hill (about 370 m).  To make up for the shortened distance I ran 11 hills instead of 10.  I noticed after the first hill I wasn't feeling the burning in my legs at the top of the hill.  I think it running through that burning feeling and going to almost complete failure that brings about increased strength.  On the remaining hills I tried to run them faster than normal to reach failure quicker.  It seemed to work.

Cool down run to reach 10 miles.

PM:

Easy 6 miles

AM:

It is raining very hard this morning.  Good day for a rest day.  :)

Ran the course for this weekends 10K.

It is a real hard course.

The first 200 meters is level, then takes a steep downhill after which it is level until about 5K.  After that it gets brutal.  It is up and down.  At about 7K there is a steep downhill section for about 1K down to a turn around point and then back up the same hill.  I was about dead at the top of the hill.  It is then level to the end.

I am trying to figure out the best way to run this course.  I am thinking if I push it at the first and run the first 5K fairly fast, I may be able to just hold on during the last 5K to the finish and still get a good time.

I didn't realize that this was going to be this hard of a course.

If anyone has any good ideas on how would be best to run this type of hilly course, I am open for any suggestions.

AM: 6 easy miles

AM:

6 easy miles.   I think I am ready for tomorrows race. I just hope the weather is good.  It is really windy today.

PM:

3 very easy miles.  The weather has turned very cold.  There is even a chance of snow tomorrow during the race.  I am not sure what kind of clothing to wear for the race.  I don't run well in cold, but I also don't want to wear heavy clothing.  :(

Ran the Nomura Katabiragawa 10K.

According to the weather forecast it was supposed to be a cloudy cold and windy day, but the weather couldn't have been more perfect. It was sunny and warm.

I got to the race and did a good warm up.

At the start line, the front row was for the invited guest runners, and then somehow I was able to line up right behind them on the second row, so my starting position was good.

My race plan was to go out hard the first 5K and try to get a good time at the 5K, and then to somehow hang on during the hilly last half of the course.

At the start of the race I stayed with the guest female runners. I was surprised how easy it was to keep up with them, and then I thought, maybe they were running a different race strategy than me. I was running the first half hard, but maybe they were running the first half easy and then going to push it in the last half.

I stayed with them until about the 5K mark, then as soon as we hit the hills, they started getting away from me. I do a lot of hill training, but these hills were tough. My lack of strength showed.

I got to the long downhill section at about 7K. It felt so nice to kind of just coast down the hill. That little bit of rest was what I needed. It wasn't as bad coming back up the hill as I had imagined. Once reaching the top of the hill it was level running the rest of the way to the finish.

I ended up 3rd place among the women, and 25th place overall. I was hoping to run about 36 minutes, but I ended up 37:05. I ended up being more than a minute behind the two guest runners.

finished off with a short cool down.

On the podium after the race, I noticed of the men runners, all of the runners were wearing the Nike Vaporfly shoes. Of the women however, 1st place was wearing New Balance, 2nd was wearing the Vaporfly and I was wearing New Balance.

Very stiff and sore from the race.

Ran just an easy 6 miles.

Still sore today, so just another easy 6 miles today.  I think I will finish off the rest of the week with just an easy week.

AM: 6 easy miles

PM: 6 easy miles

AM:  Nice relaxing 6 mile run (more of a jog).

PM: 3 easy miles

AM: 6 miles

PM: 6 miles

AM: 3 easy miles.  Didn't feel very well, so I cut it short at 3 miles.

Went to church in the morning. Walked a total of 5 miles going and coming.

Then after church went home and watched the Osaka marathon on TV.

It was a good race with an exciting finish. The eventual winner was running to try and secure a spot on the Japanese Olympic marathon team. She had to run 2:22:22 or faster to do it. It was close, but she did it and finished in 2:21:47. She burst into tears at the finish and I couldn't help but cry with her.

AM: Ran 6 miles. First time since last week's race that I have pushed it a little hard. It felt good.

PM: Ran an easy 6 miles.

AM: It is raining very hard here this morning.  There is a chance of snow.  I slept in today instead of running.

PM: It stopped raining long enough to get in a 3 mile run before it started raining hard again.  The rain is supposed to last through tomorrow morning.

AM: There was very heavy rain all night and through the morning when I usually do my morning run, so I got some extra sleep this morning instead of running. The rain has finally stopped and I can see some blue sky, so I will do a run this afternoon.

PM: Ran an easy 6 miles.  

This evening we went to an Indian Curry restaurant for dinner.  I love Indian Curry.  The nan was delicious, but I ate way too much of it.  :(

AM:

Did a warm up run.

Ran 20 x 200 m sprints (with 200 m recovery run between each). 

Did a cool down run.

It really felt good today.  My plan for this coming year is to run a half marathon later on in Autumn.  The candidates for the marathon I am thinking of would be at the end of October or the beginning of November.  I am hoping to run several 5K and 10K races during the year to keep race sharp.  I need to do some research on how to train for a half marathon.

This March after finishing high school, I am hoping to go with some of my friends to Hawaii for a graduation trip.  I am hoping to stay at my real dad's house, but that all depends on if he is okay with it (and more importantly depends on whether or not he is shacked up with some bimbo at the time and she is okay with it).

PM:

Did an easy 10 mile run.  It was a good run and felt good even though this mornings workout was hard.  

But then about 50 meters from my home I was running on the sidewalk, when all of a sudden a guy delivering newspapers comes around the corner onto the sidewalk on his motorcycle.  I had to jump out of the way to avoid getting hit by the motorcycle, and when I did I landed wrong and twisted my ankle.  It was the same ankle that I broke a couple of years ago.

When I tried to stand I could not put any weight on my foot.  A kind man that saw it happen helped me to get home.  It is good that it happened close to home.

It really makes me mad that the man on the motorcycle didn't even say sorry or stop to see of I was okay.

My mom took me to the doctor and I had my foot X-rayed.  The doctor said he didn't see any fractures on the X-ray and that it looks like I had a bad sprain.  I must go to have an MRI tomorrow because small fractures don't always show up on an X-ray.

My ankle is all swollen now and I can't walk on it.  It is good that I still have my crutches from before.  I am on crutches again.

I hope that all it is, is a sprain and that it will heal quickly.

AM:

Went and had an MRI on my ankle. There is no fracture in my ankle, which is a very good thing.

I am still unable to put weight on my ankle, but the swelling today is much better than yesterday. It is still swollen though.

The doctor said to stay off of the ankle and use crutches for the next three days, then to try putting weight on it again. If it is still really painful, then to use the crutches again for the next three days, and keep repeating this until I am able to put weight on the foot.

I asked how long it would take before I could run on it. He warned me not to be tempted to start back running too soon. He said the worst think with athletes is they are afraid that they will lose their conditioning and so rush the recovery. He said often by rushing the recovery results re-injuring the location and so recovery ends up taking longer. It is better to take it slow and recover completely before training again.

He works with a lot of athletes so is aware of what kinds of things athletes are worried about. He gave me a list of some high intensity exercises that I can do without having to put any weight on my ankle. That way I can workout at an elevated heart rate so that I won't lose a lot of endurance. He also gave me some suggestions on weight training and other exercises that I can do so I won't lose a lot of muscle while I am recovering.

After I am able to put weight on my ankle again, he gave me some exercises to do to gradually increase my ankle strength.

He is a really good doctor and I really appreciate the amount of time that he spent with me today to ease my worries and help me with suggestions so that I can keep the loss of fitness to a minimum during recovery.

Did a HIIT workout today that didn't require me to use my ankle or put weight on my ankle.

The workout included laying on my back and lifting my legs in the air and then doing what was something like bicycle pedaling in the air.

One interval was 1 minute full out sprint followed by 30 second rest. I did this a total of 15 times after which I was totally dead.

Tried putting weight on my ankle today. There was still pain. I don't think it was as bad as before, but the doctor said that if there is still pain to stay on crutches. So I will continue to be on crutches for the next three days at least.

Did some HIIT exercises to elevate and maintain high heart rate for about 20 min, and finsihed with some core strengthening exercises.

Tried putting weight on my ankle this morning.  There was hardly any pain at first, but after a while I felt a little pain, so I will use the crutches during the day and when at home I will try to go without.

There is a Princess cruise ship in the harbor here that I can see from my home.  There have been 20 people on the who have come down with the Corona virus.  They have been transporting those people to a hospital here, and I just read in the news that the hospital is the hospital just up the hill from my home.  A little unsettling to know that the virus is that close to home.

I wonder how long the ship in the harbor will be under quaranteen.  There is an America on the ship who sent a video to his family explaining the situation.  He has diabetes and is running out of Insulin.  He has asked for help and his requests have been ignored he said.  That is a little scary.

The pain in my ankle is gradually leaving, and the black and blue areas are also starting to gradually disappear.

Did some HIIT exercises today to maintain an elevated heart rate.  Also did a lot of core and strengthening exercises.

Very little pain now in my ankle. When I am home I don't use my crutches. I still use them when I go out, just to be safe.

I usually go to church on Sunday, but I will skip this week again. There is too much walking involved for me to go to church, and it is a killer on crutches, so I will stay home and relax.

My ankle is feeling a little better everyday.

I have to go to the doctor on Thursday for the doctor to check on how it is.

I can't wait to be able to walk and run normal again.

AM:

Went to the doctor today. He said everything is looking good. He said if I want I could gradually start running next week. He said start off slow and see how things go. He also advised running at first on a treadmill so there is a nice level running surface with no turns.

The only problem, I don't really have easy access to a treadmill. :(

Was able to attend church today for the first time in a few weeks. I felt no pain in my ankle walking to church.

The doctor says that I can start easy running this week, but I think I will do an easy week of just walking , and then gradually start adding in running next week.

AM: I wasn't going to run this week, but I got impatient, so I ran an easy 5K in 22:37. Felt no pain in my ankle. I was very encouraged by today.

AM:  Did a couple of miles of walking.

AM: Went to church today, but there were only about half the people there. The LDS church has made cancelled all meetings here except Sacrament meeting, which is voluntary, until Japan can get a handle on the Corona Virus.

They have cancelled a lot of marathons and races here in Japan because of the virus.

AM: Ran 5K. I thought I was running faster than last Friday, but my time was 22:37, which was the exact same as last Friday. Had no pain at all in my ankle.

PM: Ran a very easy 3 miles.

Church was cancelled, so stayed home and watched the Tokyo Marathon on TV.

AM: 6 easy miles.

AM: 2 mile easy warm up. 3 miles hard. 1 mile cool down.

The country here is in kind of a Panic mode.

My mother wanted me to go b back to Seattle after school ended, but now it seems there are probably more cases in the Seattle area than there are here.

I want to stay in Japan at least until after the Olympics because I am registered as a volunteer.

I hope they will still hold the Olympics.

AM: 6 miles easy.

AM: 6 miles fairly easy.

PM: 6 mile progression run. Ran a little faster every 40 m until I reached a point where I could no longer increase the speed. Tried to hold that final speed for as long a possible before slowing down to finish off the run.

AM: 6 easy miles.

PM: 6 miles easy.

AM: 6 miles easy. I have increased the mileage a little recently, and my muscles are feeling it.

PM: 6 miles easy.

Rest day. I really need it.

AM: 6 miles at a moderate 7:00 min. per mile pace.

PM: 6 miles easy.

AM: 10 miles easy.

AM: 6 miles hard

PM: 6 miles of ladders.

I was stopped today by a policeman. He told me I should be inside so as not to get the Corona virus. I told him I thought it was probably better outside in the fresh air. I am so tired of hearing about the virus. I would love to get away from any news broadcasts about the virus. I think it is fueling fear of the virus which makes things worse. I am going to go on self quarantine away from all new broadcasts.

AM: 10 x 800m @ about 2:35 to 2:40 (recovery jog in between)

PM: long easy 12 miles

AM: 6 miles easy

High school graduation trip has been cancelled. :(

PM: 4 x 2000m with 1000m recovery jog in between.

AM: 6 easy miles

PM: It was raining so I didn't run.

AM: 6 easy miles

AM: 6 hard miles. PM: 6 easy miles. I am considering suspending my afternoon runs until this virus thing is over. I feel that people are looking at me running and think I should be home in isolation. I still think it is good to get outside in the sunshine and fresh air. Need the vitamin D from the sun to build the immune system. I have been watching the TV news reports from the USA, and it looks like people are in kind of a panic mode. In my opinion, I don't think Pres. Trump has handled this very well at all. I think he has allowed for a situation that fosters panic. I also do not like the comments from Dr. Fauci. His comments seem to be more "Doomsday" than encouraging. I also don't know how helpful it is to report every day the running total of cases. The increasing number seems to make people panic. There is never any mention of the number of recovered patients only the running total. In my opinion, if they are going to give a number, they should report only the number of case currently in the hospital under hospital care. That would give a better snap-shop of what the current situation really is. For example in China there has bee a total of about 80,000 cases. However, of those they have reported that about 60,000 have recovered, so the actual number of current patients is about 20,000. If you report only the running total of patients it make the situation sound much worse than it really is. In Japan, the total number of cases has been about 1300 of those 700 were people aboard the Diamond Princess Cruise ship, who were the first patients in Japan. There have been 542 cases originating in Japan and 19 deaths in Japan, and 7 deaths among the cruise ship passengers. Mot of the cruise ship passengers have recovered and have returned home to their home countries. I keep hearing a lot about testing. I hear that it would be good if every one were tested, however, in my opening I don't think that is necessary. I think if a person gets symptoms, whether it is symptoms of a cold, corona virus or the flu, a person should stay home, and not go out in public. If the person's symptoms do not improve and get worse, or if a person's fever lasts for more than a couple of days, they should contact a doctor. Then they should receive testing to see if they have corona virus, the flu, or the common cold. The way this has been handled by government, and reported in the news has made the situation far worse than what it really is I think. It is a serious situation, but I think it could be handled and reported in a better way.

Sorry for going on like this.

Stay healthy everyone!

AM: 10 mile easy run. I used to see many other people running in the morning, but recently I don't see any. Am I doing something wrong by going out running?

AM: Ran a warm up, then ran 20 x (sprint 300m + jog 100m).

PM: Ran an easy 6 miles.

AM: Ran an easy 10 miles. It is raining now, but it was a really nice day for most of the day today. Got up to 20C (68F). The cherry blossoms are in bloom in Japan now.

AM: 6 miles at a very fast pace.

PM: 6 miles very easy.

AM: Ran 1000m hard followed by 1000m easy, and repeated that for about 10 miles.

My mother and I are faced now with the decision of whether to return to the USA, or to stay in Japan until this virus thing is over. I want to stay in Japan. I doubt now that they will continue with holding the Olympics this summer, but I am registered to be a volunteer and if they have the Olympics I want to be here.

I also have an Internship arranged with a large company here that was supposed to start in April, but has been temporarily postponed.

I was hoping to stay in Japan until next March when I am hoping to go on an LDS mission, but even that is not certain anymore since the missionaries are going home and I don't know if they are calling new missionaries now.

AM: 6 easy miles. Recently Sundays don't seem much like Sunday anymore. :(

AM: 6 easy miles

PM: 6 miles at a fast pace.

AM: 15 mile easy run. I actually had planned to go only 10 miles, but I got into a rhythm and it felt so good that I went more. This is the longest run I have done in a long time.

Well, the Olympics have been postponed. That might make me rethink my plans for the future.

AM: 6 easy miles.

PM: 6 easy miles

AM: 6 miles easy. Recently, I haven't felt like doing anything. It is sometimes really hard to get out the door in the morning for my run. Once I am out running I feel much better, but the whole world seems so dark and gloomy now.

PM: 6 miles easy. The cherry blossoms are in bloom now and it is beautiful.

AM: 6 miles easy.

PM: 6 miles easy.

AM: Where I live in Japan is under lockdown this weekend, so no running outside. I wanted to get to 70 miles this week, so I ran in place with high knees for 30 minutes, and I am going to count that as the 1 mile I need to reach 70.

I haven't been running the last few days. My best friend's mother came down with the COVID-19 virus. Neither my friend nor her father have shown any symptoms of it, but because I have had contact with my friend, I may have been exposed, so I am in self-imposed quarantine for 14 days. The number of cases has been very low here in Japan, but in the last couple of weeks the number has really been increasing drastically. My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is having a day of fasting and prayer on Friday, April 10. We will be praying that this situation improves. It does not matter what religion your are, I invite everyone reading my blog to join in with us in prayer on that day.

It has been a boring day at home.  I was supposd to start an internship with a company this week, but that has been put on hold indefinitely.

I have been planning to run a half marathon in November of this year if it does not get cancelled.  I got the training log of Hitomi Nimiya today.  She has the fastest women's half marathon time of any woman born outside of Africa and also has the Japanese national record.  I am thinking of trying to adapt her training to my own training.  I am getting excited to be able to go outside and run again.

Did a lot of core exercises today.

Getting very bored being inside all day. They expanded the lockdown in Japan to be nationwide today, and are going to be more strict about enforcing it. I have no idea when I will be able to go out running again. My self imposed quarantine will end this weekend. I was hoping to start running again next week, but it looks a little doubtful.

AM: I went out running this morning at 12:30 am in the middle of the night so that there would be no one outside. I was surprised though. There were quite a lot of people out walking.

I ran 10K. The first 5K i ran in close to 20 minutes. I went kind of fast to see if I still had some speed. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The second 5K, I did slow.

I will do about 6 miles every morning to finish off this month. The lockdown here is supposed to end on May 6. Hopefully after that I will be able to run longer and during the day.

I am still planning on running a half marathon in November if the race is not cancelled. I have no idea what kind of a time to aim for. I used a race time predictor I found on the runnersworld website. It predicted my time as 1:18, so initially that will be the time I will be working toward. as I train, I may have to adjust that time up or down.

AM: 6 miles at a fairly good pace at 12:30am in the middle of the night. I went a little faster than I was planning on. It was supposed to be an easy day, by I feel nervous being outside, so I think that I ran fast to get the run over with as soon as possible.

AM: (12:30am) Ran an easy 6 miles, with 5 x 150 m striders at the end.

With everyone staying indoors, I haven't seen most of my friends for a long time. I miss my friends. But I have been able to spend more time with my mother, which has been nice.

AM (12:30am): Ran 10K by running 10 x 500m fast with 500m recovery run in between.

AM (1:00am): Ran an easy 6 miles. Worked mainly on form today. I am starting to get used to this running in the middle of the night. I am just glad that there are lots of lights. If there were no lights where I run, it would be kind of scary.

AM (12:30am): Ran a very fast 10K. This was my hardest workout all week. Overall it was a good week and it was good to be able to run again. Looking forward to next week.

AM (12:30am): 10K Fartlex. Mixed in 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m fast spurts.

Just leaving in a few minutes for Tuesdays run. I am really getting used to this running in the middle of the night. :)

AM (12:30am): Ran an easy 6 miles.

I learned today that if all goes well, my internship will probably begin on May 11. The lockdown is supposed to end on May 6. I hope that the government does not extend it.

AM (12:30am): 6 miles easy. Felt very smooth and relaxed today.

AM (12:30am): 6 easy miles.

AM (12:30am): Fun run today. At the start of the run I wasn't feeling like running hard so I decided to go easy, but after the first 1000 meters I was feeling very good, so the run ended up being a progressive run where I progressively ran each 1000 meters faster than the one before. It became very hard at the end, but afterwards, I felt very good for having done it.

AM (12:30am): 6 miles at good pace. Worked on running form today.

AM (12:30am): Warm up run. Ran a 5K at about 80% effort. Time was 18:10. Felt really good and was not winded at the end. I am happy about this. I am sure I could run a good time if I were going all out. Finished off with easy running to reach 10K.

AM (12:30am): Ran an easy 10K. Worked on running form today.

AM (12:30am):  warmup run. 10 x 800m fast with 200 m recovery jog in between.

AM (12:30am): Ran an easy 6 miles and worked on running form. I think I am going to up the mileage and intensity of my workouts a little next week.

AM (12:30am): 10K at a very good pace.

AM(12:30 am): Ran an easy 10K.

AM (12:30am): I don't normally run on Sunday, but I just needed to get out of the house and get some exercise. So I did an easy 5K this morning. Tomorrow, I will be increasing mileage.

AM (12:30am): Easy 6 miles.

AM (11:00am): Easy 6 miles.

AM (12:30 am): Ran a 10K progression run. 4:30-4:22-4:15-4:23-4:16-4:10-4:01-3:57-3:49-3:48

AM (11:00am): Ran an easy 10K.

AM (12:30am): Ran 10K at an easy pace.

AM (11:30am): Ran 10K at an easy pace.

AM (12:30am): Did a warm up run. The ran 4 x mile (5:41 - 5:44 - 5:48 - 5:43) (90 sec rest in between). Then did a cool down run, for a total of about 6 miles.

AM (11:30am): Ran an easy 10 K

AM (12:30 am): Ran 16K (10 miles) in 72 minutes.

AM (11:30 am): Ran an easy 10K.

AM (12:30am): Ran an easy 10K.

AM (11:30am): Ran an easy 10K. I increased mileage and intensity this week. I felt good about all of my workouts this week.

AM (11:30am) Ran an easy 5K.

AM (12:30am) 10K of 2 minutes hard 2 minutes easy.

AM (11:30am): 10K easy

AM (12:30am): Ran 10 miles easy.

AM (11:30am) Ran 6 miles easy.

Recently I have been feeling like I have been wasting a lot of time at home during the lockdown, and I think I should be taking advantage of this time to do something to better myself. Today I decided to start a couple of courses on the MIT Open Courseware website. I am going to start two courses:

1- Elements of Mechanical Design

2- Modeling Dynamics and Control

I have done several of the MIT courses in the past and find them very well done.

AM (12:30am): !0K run at pace.

AM (11:30am): 10K easy

AM (12:30am): Very easy 10 miles

AM (11:30am): Very easy 6 miles

AM (12:30am): Warm up run. 3 x 3000m fast, cool down run

AM (11:30am): 6 miles easy

AM (12:30am): 6 miles easy

AM (11:30am): 6 miles easy

AM (12:30am): 6 easy miles

I have really been getting behind on my sleep recently. I got my textbooks for the courses I am taking, and both textbooks have been very interesting. I have been reading them when I probably should be sleeping. Both books are very well written. I think I am really going to enjoy these courses.

I found out that I will be starting my Internship on June 1. I was supposed to start in April before all of this mess started. I am looking forward to it. I really enjoyed my internship with the same company last summer.

AM (12:30am): Did a warm up run. Ran a fast 5K. Did a cool down run.

AM (11:30am): Ran an easy 10K

AM (12:30am): Ran 10 easy miles.

AM (11:30am): Ran 6 easy miles.

With less than 30 new cases per day of COVID-19 in the entire country, the Prime Minister of Japan declared an end of the state of emergency. I think people still need to be very careful, but it is nice to have things starting to get back to normal.

With the state of emergency over, and with my internship starting next week, I am going to have to re-think my training a little. I will probably change the times of day that I run.

AM: 6 easy miles

PM: 6 easy miles

AM: Did a warm up run. I decided to do a 1500m time trial today. I ran it in 4:38.55. I think I could have done much better than that if I would have been racing someone. Did a cool down run of a couple of miles.

PM: Ran an easy 10 miles

AM: 10 easy miles

PM: 6 easy miles

AM: 10 miles easy

PM: 6 miles easy.

I think I need to go back to running in the middle of the night and mornings again. It is getting too hot to be running in the afternoon.

AM: Easy 6 miles.

I am not sure how my training will go this week. I am starting my internship this week, and am not sure when I will be able to fit running in.

AM: Did an easy 10 miles.

PM: Did an easy 6 miles.

Started my internship today. It is going to be fun I think. Today was an orientation. I will be going to the office every third day. I will be in Group C. I won't be going again until Thursday. The days I do not go to the office I will be doing some work at home. With this schedule, only 1/3 of the work force will be at the office each day, making it easier to keep a distance from other workers.

I have not been assigned to an Engineering Group yet. There is an R&D group working on the development of new products. There is another group working on the improvement of existing products. And there is a group working on improving manufacturing methods of existing products, etc. Any one of groups sounds like it would be interesting. As an intern, I am sure that I will not have any major responsibilities, but I will have lots to learn.

AM: Did a warm up run. Ran 10 x 800m fast. Did a cool down run.

PM: Ran an easy 6 miles.

AM: 10 easy miles.

PM: 6 easy miles.

AM: Ran 6 easy miles. Was going to run 10, but have to go to work today, so I decided to cut it short.

PM: Ran 6 easy miles.

Wen to my job today. I got assigned to the Engineering Group 3, Section 4. This group does work on improving manufacturing processes of automotive transmissions. Sounds interesting.

AM: 10 easy miles.

PM: 6 easy miles

AM: 10 easy miles

PM: 6 easy miles

This was a tough week. I am not sure I want to increase my mileage anymore for a while. My ultimate goal is to do about 30km a day, but it is going to take some more time to work into that. I will try to maintain this distance for the next little while.

AM: Easy 6 miles.

AM: 10 miles easy.

PM: 6 miles easy.

AM: 10 miles at a good pace. Even though I had to go to work today, I was still able to fit in a good run this morning. Work is exciting, and I will write more about that another time.

PM: 6 miles easy.

AM: Did an easy 10 miles including some fast sprints at the end. I have noticed that when I do a lot of long distance runs like I have been doing recently, my ability to sprint has decreased

PM: Did 6 easy miles.

AM: Did a warm up run, then did 10 x 800m, followed by a cool down run.

PM: 6 very easy miles.

AM: 10 very easy miles.

PM: 6 easy miles

AM: 10 easy miles.

PM: 6 easy miles

End of another good week of training.

Next Monday if the weather is permitting, I am going to try and do another 1500m time trial. I wasn't satisfied with the last one. I know I can do better.

AM: 6 easy miles

AM: Did a good warm run before my time trial. Ran a 1500m time trial.

My time today was 4:33.27. It was a news PR for me and about 5 seconds faster than my last time trial.

I am still a little disappointed. In looking at last years Japanese high school rankings, today's time would have put me in 104th place. I would like to get into the top 100. The top time last year was 4:10.99. I have a long way to go to get there. Top 100 would be 4:33.01. I think I can do that. I will wait a couple of more weeks and try again.

My training recently has been for an upcoming half marathon, so I am happy with my 1500m time since I have not been training for 1500m.

Finished off this mornings workout with a cool down run to get my 10 miles.

PM: 6 very easy miles.

I need to get to bed. I have work tomorrow.

AM: 10 easy miles. Worked on running form.

PM: 6 easy miles.

AM: 10 Miles easy

PM: 6 miles easy

AM: Easy run. 10 x 400m fast. Easy run to get 10 miles.

PM: Easy 6 miles

AM: 10 easy miles. Worked on running form. When I do my easy runs, I always try to work on running form.

PM: 6 miles easy.

AM: 15 mile long run. 200m sprints at the end of each mile. I really enjoyed this run.

PM: 6 miles easy.

The half marathon that I have been training for was cancelled. I feel really bad about this. The half marathon isn't until November. I think it is too early to cancel now, but oh well.

AM: 6 miles easy.

I have been thinking about whether or not to continue my training as scheduled for running a half marathon, or whether to scale back.

Right now I am at the best condition I have ever been in, I don't want to lose that fitness, but I am wondering if it is good to keep doing the high mileage I have been doing for a prolonged period of time, or if I should scale back a little.

I don't understand why they cancelled the half marathon I was training for.

COVID-19 is almost gone here in Japan, and unless there is a very severe 2nd wave, I don't even know if it will even be around in November at all.

I am very disappointed.

AM: Had a real hard getting out of bed this morning. Since my race was cancelled, my motivation level is about "zero". I need to find a race or something so that I have a goal to be working toward.

Once I got out and started running I ran a really good workout.

Short warm up run. Then ran 10 x 1000m fast (I ran these really hard, I was working out my frustration on these. I felt a lot of anger while running these, but it helped me run them extra hard.) Finished with a jog to get my 10 miles.

PM: Ran 8 miles easy. I am increasing the mileage a little this week.

AM: Easy 10 miles.

PM: 6 miles at a good pace.

AM: 10 easy miles. I had another workout planned for this morning, but I haven't recovered completely from Monday's workout. I will try to do the workout that I was going to do today, tomorrow.

PM: 8 miles easy.

AM: Warm up run. 3 x 3000m hard. Cool down run to reach 10 miles.

PM: 6 miles easy.

AM: 10 very easy miles. Tired from yesterday.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: 15 miles long run. Ran at a fairly good pace.

PM: 6 easy miles

AM: 6 easy miles in the rain.

AM: Warm up run. 20 x 400m fast. Cool down run to get about 10 miles.

PM: Very easy 8 miles.

AM: 10 easy miles. Had a lot of things going against me for this mornings run. Had terrible stomach cramps, and it was raining, but I was able to get out and complete the run.

PM: Easy 6 miles. Still had stomach cramps, but not as bad as this morning.

AM: 10 miles easy.

PM: 8 miles easy. I didn't think I was going to get this run in. After my morning run we had some really violent weather. Heavy winds and rain. But it stopped before my run.

AM: Warm up run. 2 x 5000m fast. Cool down run to get my morning 10 miles.

This workout felt really good. In fact, I have been very pleased with how my running has been going recently. I think I am in the best condition I have ever been in, and it FEELS GOOD.

PM: 8 miles easy.

AM: 10 miles very easy.

PM: 8 miles at a moderate pace.

AM: 15 miles easy with 200 m sprint at the end of each mile. I have been doing 200m sprinting at the end of each mile during my long runs for the past few weeks, and it seems to really be helping.

PM: Easy 6 miles.

AM: 6 easy miles between rainstorms.

AM: 10 miles at a good pace.

PM: 8 miles easy.

AM: Ran an easy warm up run. Then ran a 5K time trial resulting in a new PR, which made me very happy. Cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: Very easy 8 miles.

AM: Very, very slow and easy 10 miles. Yesterday's time trial took more out of me than I thought. At the start of the run, I thought I would never finish it, but after about 6 miles my body started loosening up a bit.

PM: Easy 8 miles. Felt much better than this morning's run.

AM: 10 easy miles. Still tired from the other day.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: 10 miles of fartlek.

PM: 8 easy miles

AM: This morning was my long run for the week. Did 15 miles with 200m sprints at the end of each mile.

PM: Very easy 6 miles

This is end of a very good week of running. I have reached the maximum distance that I have been working toward. Now I will try to very gradually increase quality of my workouts.

AM: 6 miles easy

AM: 10 miles hard. I really pushed it this morning. I wanted to finish before it started raining.

PM: 8 easy miles. Started raining hard and I got drenched.

AM: 10 easy miles. I concentrated on my running form during this run. Usually when I do my easy runs, I like to concentrated on my form.

PM: Easy 8 miles.

AM: Fun 10 miles easy in the rain. Actually the rain felt really good this morning.

PM: Very humid 8 miles.

AM: 10 miles at a fast pace.

PM: 8 miles at a moderate pace.

AM 10 miles easy. It didn't cool down much during the night, so it was hot and humid for my run. I probably didn't take in enough fluids before the run, and I felt a little dehydrated at the end. I need to be more careful in the future.

PM: Easy 8 miles. Felt much better during this run than during the morning run.

AM: Got a late start on my run this morning. It was raining so hard early in the morning I was afraid I was going to have to cancel my long run, but it stopped. Ran 15 miles easy with 200m sprints at the end of each mile.

PM: Ran late in the evening because of rain. Ran 6 easy miles in misty rain.

AM: 6 easy miles in the heat (29C) and humidity (94%).

AM: 10 easy miles

PM: 8 easy miles.

For the internship that I am doing, I must select a topic from a list of possible choices of a technical problem to work on. I must come up with some possible solutions to the problem and select an optimum solution and develop a plan to carry out the solution. I must then give a presentation to my supervisor. It sounds really exciting. I have narrowed down my choices for a topic to two. The deadline for submitting the topic is this week, so I must make a decision.

Engineering is really an exciting field. I am loving it.

AM: Ran a short warm up. Then ran an 800m time trial. My time was 2:15.26.

Not as good as I had hoped for. In last years high school rankings in Japan, that would have put me at 172nd place. To break into the top 100, I need to get that down to 2:14.26. Only one second. There is only one second difference between the 100th place ranking and the 172nd place ranking in last years rankings.

Then I ran 15 x 400m sprints, and finished off with a cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: Ran a very easy 8 miles.

AM: Very sore from yesterday's workout. Did a very easy 10 miles. Felt like I was running in slow motion.

PM: Easy 8 miles

AM: 10 miles of fartlek

PM: 8 miles easy

AM: Easy 10 miles. There were more people out running this morning. It is a National Holiday. The set this day as a holiday last year. This would have been the opening day of the 2020 Olympics. The Olympics are supposed to start next year on this day, but I wonder if it will really happen.

PM: Easy 8 miles.

AM: Long run of 15 miles with 200m sprints at the end of each mile.

PM: 6 easy miles.

End of another GREAT week!

AM: 6 easy miles

AM: Warm up run. 3 x (200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m). Cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: 8 easy miles

AM: 10 easy miles.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: Warm up run. 20 x 400m sprints. Cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: Easy 8 miles.

AM: 10 easy miles. I run the same course everyday. I am thinking I should change courses every once in a while, but I enjoy this course.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: 10 miles at a good steady pace.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: 15 mile long run. The rainy season has finally ended here in Japan, and now the real summer starts. It was really hot today.

PM: 6 easy miles.

AM: Very easy 6 miles.

The second wave of the Corona Virus is really hitting hard here in Japan. The numbers of new cases have skyrocketed. So on the surface it really appears that the situation has greatly worsened, but in checking out the numbers, the number of tests given has increased at a higher rate than the number of new cases. The number of deaths has stayed the same and in most areas has decreased. So the death rate has really plunged.

I think there were many undetected and unknown cases of the virus before the testing increased.

As the numbers of new cases go up, the government says, "Oh no, the cases are going up. We need to test more." They test more, and of course the numbers go up again, so the government says "This is really getting bad, we need more and more testing" as if they think that testing is a cure.

Testing is meaning less. People are most contagious in the first few days before symptoms appear. So by the time a person is tested, they have done the damage of spreading. Test results come back at such a slow rate, that by the time they get back and even try to do tracking, it is too late to be effective at all.

Testing is only helpful in the initial stage of a virus to learn of the extend of the spread and speed of the spread. Once that it is known that it is intensive spread, there is not much more information testing can give.

We have a good idea who is at most risk, people who are residents of long-term care facilities, the elderly, and people with prior health problems...

The best thing to do is to protect those high risk people.

When people are sick enough to seek out medical care, then testing should be performed to see if they have the virus and then treat them according to the test results.

People need to take care to avoid places where the spread is more likely. They need to take personal responsibility for their own health and also for doing their upmost not to spread it to others.

As we can see, lockdowns have been shown to only prolong things. As people come out of lockdowns the spread begins...this will keep repeating itself if lockdowns are repeatedly used, resulting in a third wave, fourth wave etc. and by the time the fourth wave comes around, people who initially had the virus will probably lose their temporary immunity and catch the virus again, and it starts all over.

The Obama administration, handled the "Swine Flu" in a much better manner. Numbers were kept track of initially, but then after it was known that there was wide spread, posting of the daily numbers was terminated. They did a good job in keeping daily life, the economy, etc. fairly normal.

60 million people had the swine flu in the USA, and I hardly even remember it.

It hit the young people harder than the elderly, so there were less major health problems, whereas COVID-19 hits the elderly harder than the young, but still it was handled much better.

Maybe it was handled better because it was not an election year. I have the feeling politicians regardless of party are not making good decisions due to the political situation of an election year. I feel bad that both political parties appear to being putting political appearances before the peoples health.

The world seems to be following the USA's bad example of handling this virus. There was no talk of lockdowns in Japan until the US started doing them. Borders were not closed until Trump closed the US borders.

The Trump administration in my opinion has handled this situation very poorly from the start, which has resulted in not only hurting the USA's economy etc., but countries throughout the world like Japan that follow the USA's lead in handling this situation are also experiencing an economic crisis.

Well, I could go on and on about this, but I had to get all of this off my chest.

I feel much better now..... :)

AM: Warm up run. 4 x 2000m fast (1000m easy in between). Cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: 8 easy miles

AM: When I woke up this morning I got some terribly painful shin muscle cramps in both legs. The cramps just wouldn't go away so I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to run. Finally, after about a half hour, the muscles relaxed and the pain when away.

I then ran an easy 10 miles. Luckily there was no pain while running.

PM: Easy 8 miles.

AM: Warm up run. 20 x 300m sprints (short recovery jog in between) cool down run to reach 10 miles.

PM: Easy 8 miles

AM: Very easy 10 miles. Still very tired from yesterday's workout.

PM: Easy 8 miles

AM: 10 miles at a very fast pace.

PM: 8 easy miles

AM: 15 mile long run with 200m sprint at the end of each mile. This has become one of my favorite workouts of the week.

PM: Very easy 6 miles.

This ends another Fun week of running. I was very satisfied with the training I was able to do.

AM: Easy 6 miles. The temperature today was 36C (about 97F) and the humidity was 70%.

AM: Warm up run. 10 x 1000 m fast. Cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: 8 easy miles in the heat.

AM: 10 very easy miles.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: I was planning on doing a hard workout this morning, but I woke up with a bad cramp in my left calf muscle during the night. I worked it out, but decided to go easy today. I wonder what is causing the cramping. My mom says it may be dehydration. I need to try better at keeping hydrated.

Ran 10 easy miles.

PM: Leg felt much better. Did an easy 8 miles

AM: Warm up run. 2 x 5000m fast. Cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: Very easy 8 miles

AM: 10 miles easy.

PM: 8 miles easy.

AM: 15 mile long run with 200 m sprints after each mile.

PM: 6 miles easy.

This week was a little hard staying motivated. It has been so hot and humid recently, which makes running very uncomfortable.

AM: 10 miles easy.

AM: Warm up run. 5 x 1 mile fast. Cool down run to 10 miles.

PM: 8 Easy miles.

AM: 10 very easy miles.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: Warm up run. 3 x (100m + 200m + 400m + 800m + 1600m + 800m + 400m + 200m + 100m). Cool down run to reach about 12 miles.

PM: 8 easy miles

AM: 10 super super easy miles. Very tired from yesterday's workout.

PM: 8 easy miles

AM: 10 mile progression run. Felt very tired at first but gradually stated feeling better so got faster and faster so this run turned into a progression run.

PM: 8 very easy miles.

I have been very busy with my internship this week. I had a preliminary project presentation with my supervisor today where I had to present my project, the reasons for selecting the project, etc. I have been busy all week getting ready for the presentation.

AM: 15 mile long run with 200m sprints at the end of each mile.

PM: Easy 6 miles.

This is the end of a very BUSY week.

AM: 10 easy miles.

AM: Warm up. 8 x (2 x 400m sprints) (10 second rest between 400s, with 1000m run between sets). Cool down to get about 12 miles.

This was a very difficult workout, but I really felt fast, light on my feet, and felt I had a lot of energy. One of my best workouts recently.

PM: 8 very easy miles

AM: 10 easy miles.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: Warm up run. 6 x 2000m fast. Cool down run to get 10 miles.

PM: Easy 8 miles.

AM: 10 easy miles.

PM: 8 easy miles.

AM: Warm up run. 10 x 1000m fast. Cool down run to get 10 miles

PM: Easy 8 miles.

AM: 15 mile long run with 200m sprints at the end.

Today during my long run, I was thinking about the two political conventions during the last couple of weeks. I was comparing the two. There are very big differences. This is will be my first time voting and want to make a good educated decision. I think this will be one of the most important elections of our time. The direction of the country depends on it. I hope everyone watched the two conventions and will follow their own feelings in voting this coming election.

PM: 8 miles easy

AM: 10 miles very easy.

AM: I overslept. I started reading a new textbook "Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz. It was so fascinating that I couldn't put it down. Electronics is one of my weak points. I think this book is going to give me a much better knowledge of the subject. I don't know how late I stayed up in the night reading, but I fell asleep while reading. When I woke up in the morning it was too late to go for a run.

I had a good workout planned for this morning but I will have to do it on Tuesday morning.

PM: Ran an easy 10 miles.

I have a callous on the bottom of my right heel. Well it split open an is very painful when I stand on it. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to run, but after I ran for a short distance I forgot about the pain. and was able to finish my run.

AM: I did the workout today that I had planned for yesterday. Did a warm up run.

Ran 15 x 800m fast. Ended with a cool down run to reach about 12 miles.

PM: Ran an easy 8 miles.

AM: VERY easy 10 miles. Still extremely tired from yesterday morning's workout.

PM: Easy 8 miles

AM: 10 miles at a fast pace. Felt full of energy today.

PM: 8 miles easy.

AM: 10 miles easy.

PM: 8 miles easy.

AM: 15 mile long run with 200m sprints at the end of each mile.

PM: 6 miles easy

The end of another week. Seemed like a very uneventful week. Recently my life seems to be "one pattern". Same thing every day. I think it is time to make some changes.

It has been a while since I wrote on my blog.

I have been to the other side of HELL and back with COVID-19. It hit me extremely hard and I really suffered with it.

It has been more than a month now since I have recovered, and even though the doctors say they cannot find anything wrong with me, I still do not feel 100% normal. I still get winded easily and my heart starts racing like crazy. Some mornings I just cannot get out of bed.

I have started getting back to running, but I have found it very difficult.

Last week I ran a 5K time trial. My time was 37:27. Much of which was walking. When I run, my heart starts pounding and my chest hurts and I have difficult breathing, so I have to stop and walk.

Today my goal was to run 1 mile without stopping. Unfortunately, I was only able to go three laps around the track before I had to stop. I walked and ran some until I got 3 miles today.

I will take a couple of days off to rest, and will try this again.

For those who take this virus lightly, please don't. I know that some and maybe even most have only few problems, but some like me get it very hard. So please do what you can to stop the spread. Wear a mask and avoid crowds.

Last week I tried running a mile without stopping. I failed last week in my attempt and was only able to do 3 laps of the track before I had to stop.

I rested most of last week and decided to take on that challenge again today.

Today, to my surprise, I was feeling much better as I ran and, even though difficult, I was able to complete a mile without stopping. I then walked for a mile and tried running a mile again, and was also able to finish that mile without stopping.

Today was a very encouraging day for me.

I was able to accomplish my goal of running one mile, not only once, but twice.

PS: I heard recently about a training method called MAF. I have been interested in starting it.

If anyone has ever tried it, or has any tips regarding it, I would love to hear about it.

After two days of hardly being able to get out of bed, I did

3 easy miles of mixed running (jogging) and walking.

Still having issues with my heart and breathing.

I have a visit with a doctor again tomorrow.

I am going to the hospital until the Dec. 16 for observation and tests of my irregular heart beat etc.

I returned home from the hospital yesterday. A big thanks to all of the people who took good care of me while was there.

I underwent several tests for my heart and lungs.

As a result of the tests, my doctor, parents and I have decided that I will give up running indefinitely.

I can't do any running right now, but the doctor says that it is okay do walking, so I got a pedometer and this morning I walked 5473 steps. My average heart rate during the walk was 132, and no significant heart pain. It was cold this morning.

Body temperature: 36.2C

Walked 4886 steps.

Average heart rate during walk: 132 bpm

Overall felt good. A little frustrated I can't run, but "Good things come to those who wait". When the proper time comes, I hope I can start running again. Until then I will walk.

Body Temperature: 36.5C

Walked 5193 steps.

Average heart rate during walk: 126 bpm

Today was a beautiful morning. Going to Costco in Zama today.

Body Temperature: 35.7C

Walked 5149 steps.

Average heart rate during walk was 120 bpm. (Heart rate has been gradually improving. I have felt little discomfort walking. I was very tired this morning though, and had a hard time getting out of bed.)

Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Body Temperature: 35.9C (I have to keep a record of my temperature morning and evening for my next Doctor's visit, so I have been recording it here also.)

Walked 5423 steps.

Average heart rate during the walk was 120 bpm.

Felt very good today during the walk. Today's walk was mostly level with no uphill portions. The uphill portions still give me some problems.

I was supposed to go back into the hospital on Jan 6 to 8, for some more tests, but the hospital called and asked me to come on Jan 4 to 6 instead. Not really looking forward to that.

Had a very nice relaxing weekend and got some well needed sleep and rest.

Body Temperature: 36.2C

Walked 6049 steps.

Average heart rate during the walk was 120 bpm.

Body Temperature: 35.8C

Walked 6234 steps.

Average heart rate during the walk was 114 (either this was a great improvement over the last few days, or there was an error in measurement. I am hoping for the latter.)

Body temperature: 36.0C

Walked 6203 steps.

Average heart rate during the walk was 117 bpm.

Today I am going to spend a relaxing day at home watching the Women's Ekiden National Championship on TV.

Body Temperature: 36.0C

Walked 6045 steps.

Heart rate during today walk was 105.

Felt very very good today walking. I wanted to run so bad, but will be patient until I get approval from the doctor.

This is the last day of the year. It has been quite the year. I had some PRs in my running as well as my current situation where I am unable to run at all. I finished high school and also enjoyed working as an intern. There were a lot of ups and downs this year, but through the ups and downs I have learned a lot about myself and I feel I have grown and become a better person for it.

I am hoping that next year will be a much better year for me and for the world as a whole.

Good bye 2020.