The Renegade

This was a weird run. The pace wasn't all that slow but everything felt off. My leg mucles felt like paper mache (hollow) but heavy at the same time. Also my form was probably terrible. The only ting that made it okay was that it was sort of nice ourside and I was listening to J. Cole's dope new album 4 Your Eyez Only, which probably contributed to the faster pace (7:24). I did the river trail loop. Just weird. 

Treadmill run today. Started at 8:00/mi and workout my way down to 7:00/mi decreasing about 15 sec/mi every mile, so 5 miles. I was dying by the end. Was planning on going all the way down to 6:15 but that was NOT happening. Thought I could still go all the way to 6:30 (8 miles) at mile 4, but I was really dying at 7 minute pace so I cut it off there and did a gruelling 2 mile cooldown at 8:30 pace. Something is really wrong with my fitness. Just a depressing "workout".

AM: Morning 6.3. Was not good. Ran down 10th west to Icon then headed west on the river trail and eventually into the sticks where I looped back home. Pace was a hard earned 7:58 ap. It was kind of snowy on the sidewalk but where it really sucked was on the country roads, I just felt so slow, maybe it wasn't a good day I don't know but this just really sucked. If every run in the near future is going to be like this it will be MUCH harder to get myself out the door.

PM: Headed to the ARC after work at night. Did 3 miles of running on the upstairs track which really sucked (I could see myself in the window reflection every lap and I did not like what I saw mechanics wise, I looked like an old man). Between every mile I went downstairs and did a lift, those didn't feel good either. Just didn't feel good. 

This was an okay run. Ran from Old Maine after my math final. Took it easy the whole time except for the very end. Headed up the hill then down the other hill by the Spectrum and hit up the XC course which was covered with snow, still ran on it anyways, then took a long bathroom break at the agriculture building next to the course. Then I headed up the 12th E hill which sucked then down the high way and back on the canal trail. I got down to the low 7 pace in the last couple miles, which if this was a couple weeks ago that would've been low 6s, but I felt good not sucky at the end, which is an improvement. 7:52 ap.

Slept in, the weather got bad, then had to run some errands and go to work, and of course the weather got good when I couldn't run. So no run today. Wasn't very motivated to do it anyway.

"Long run" today. Was actually planning on doing 12, but I slept in a bit and only had an hour to run before going to see Rogue One, and with traffic lights and stuff and me being slow I only was able to get 6 in in that hour. 7:30 ap because I was pushing on the way back.