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February 2020

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U of A

Member Since:

May 16, 2015

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Male

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Running Accomplishments:

Ran 200 miles in under a week(nov 2019) . Ran 226 miles in under a week twice in 17 days(oct 2023). Ran 250 miles in under a week(mar 2024)

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25. braves fan/canes fanatic/broncos sufferer

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Miles:This week: 95.00 Month: 626.00 Year: 1842.00
Fly's Lifetime Miles: 215.00
Pegs 36 #8 Lifetime Miles: 451.00
Pegs #9 Lifetime Miles: 322.25
Peg 37 White Lifetime Miles: 289.50
Streak LT Lifetime Miles: 11.50
Peg 37 Navy Lifetime Miles: 494.50
Peg 37 Magenta Lifetime Miles: 508.75
Peg Shields Lifetime Miles: 795.00
Peg Shields 2(orange) Lifetime Miles: 770.00
Total Distance
429.00
Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 288.00Fly's Miles: 14.00Structures Miles: 127.00
Weight: 162.60
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10.00

PM - 10 miles after a 10-hour shift. knee felt... like it was pretending to feel good so i'd say it felt good and get sucker-punched. ha! subversion

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 10.00
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10.00

PM - 10 after work. legs were tired from another 10-hour shift, plus working 8 of the past 9 days, but i get the next two days off and the added bonus was this was the first time i've felt like myself in over two weeks.

also huge shoutout to Sunbeam Xpress Heat because their heating pad broke 4 days after i bought it. wouldn't have been worth getting if i shoplifted it

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 10.00
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17.00

AM - 5. it's the precipice of spring in the south so a lot of rain on the horizon, so probably a lot of treadmill running on the horizon too. 

PM - 12. ran without music and had this(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WmMj4lfpdc) going on in a loop in my head the last 6 miles

sotd: born under punches(the heat goes on) - talking heads

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 17.00
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27.00

AM - 5. slept in so gonna get a little less recovery if i'm tripling like i hope to.

Noon - 10. legs having been sore after last night's 12, first mile or two felt like i'd be lucky to get the average pace under 8 minutes but i started thinking about the next couple of months of training, and before i knew it i felt really good. not just good as in "my last 2 weeks were 20 and 60 miles so i'm not in the best shape" good either, just felt great. was cruising those last 30 minutes or so.

PM - 12 in the rain. quads still sore, so just easy running letting the miles rack up.

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 27.00
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5.00

AM - 5 easy. put it off for a few hours because the quads seem a little more sore than the day before. it's not like i ran 27 miles in 12 hours or anything :) so it looks like a "two steps forward, one step back" scenario. i think i can do 5 miles early in the morning and 12 in the evening no problem right now, but with the quad soreness i think adding that third run in between could be detrimental. so, i'll probably just do the 17 mile days until friday, 10 miles after work on the weekend, and try adding that 3rd run next week. might skip tonight's 12 just to let the legs heal up a bit from yesterday.

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 5.00
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17.00

AM - 5 on the treadmill. stormed something crazy all night and morning. wasn't sure on the incline to offset the fact that treadmill running is easier than real running so set it to 1.0, also find it very hard to run on a treadmill mentally so kept speeding up the pace every couple of minutes by 0.3-0.5 mph to make it more exciting, started at 8.0 and ended at 11.0. felt good once the pace got in 5-minute territory.

PM - 12 easy. cold and raining, everyone's favorite running weather.

SOTD: mahogany - lil wayne

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 17.00
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17.00

AM - 5. it was snowing this morning!

PM - 12. ran the first 4 breaking in the zoom fly's. no cap, if i was forced at gunpoint tomorrow to race a half-marathon in those or birkenstocks i'd choose the sandals. most uncomfortable shoes i've ever ran in by a mile(no pun intended). i'll give them the benefit of the doubt since i was running on grass and i assume they're meant for the roads and give them a second chance on the next tempo run i do. with that being said, best i've felt on a 12 this week.

sotd: no woman, no cry - bob marley & the wailers

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 13.00Fly's Miles: 4.00
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15.00

PM  - ~15 after work. watch was nearly dead so just ran for a tad over 2 hours, long enough that even on a bad day i'd have hit 15 miles at least 5 minutes before i stopped.

so happy to be back to triple digits!!

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 15.00
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10.00

PM - 10. slow. felt okay. i think if i had tripled both days this weekend my legs would have recovered more; at least i'll get a nice paycheck.

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 10.00
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25.00

AM - 5. the storms tuscaloosa is supposed to suffer through all week were just starting to roll in. a drizzle during my shakeout turned into heavier rain on my drive home, and 30 minutes later it was raining hard enough that flooding started. guess it's a treadmill day.

AM2 - 9-mile progression on the treadmill at a slight incline. ran the first 5 in 31:30, the next 3 in 18:00, and decided my original plan of 5 miles at 9.5 mph, 5 at 10 mph, 5 at 10.5 mph would probably go out the window at about 11 miles, so swung for the fences instead for a 4:57 final mile. 54:27 total time. not the same as running it out on the grass but i'm happy with it. cooldown for 15, man those post-tempo cooldowns feel long.

PM - 5 after work. probably my most taxing 5-hour shift to date, i'm happy i got out to the gym and while i think i could have done 15 easy outside 5 is all i could mentally handle on the treadmill. i honestly think people who enjoy treadmill running should be locked up. vote eugene for president 2036 so we can make that dream a reality 

sotd: long gone lonesome blues - hank williams

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 25.00
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5.00

AM - 5 + core & hips. slept through the alarm and was a bit sore from yesterday so decided just to do a shakeout this morning and get my shoes wet this evening. i’m already sick of the treadmill running, no way i could do even half my normal mileage on one consistently.

PM - off. started raining super hard so i knew the flooding wouldn’t stop until the next morning, and as much as i love running, i hate running on treadmills more. if you couldn’t tell already

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 5.00
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30.00

AM - 5 easy. finally woke up at 3:30 again! the first morning is always the hardest

AM2 - 20 miles! getting this done makes these last 3 weeks of training irrelevant because i finally feel like myself again. wasn't 100% sure i'd make it all the way at the start but i lucked out with it being one of those runs where you feel like you can run forever. well, almost forever. hit a brick wall right as i began mile 20 that made that last mile feel longer than the 19 before it combined. probably wouldn't have dealt with that if i wasn't constantly having to jump and sprint through puddles, two and a half hours of that tires you out a bit. very happy my body held up with getting 25 miles in before 10am, i wouldn't even care if i was too tired to get my post-work run in. i'd sure like to though

PM - 5 after work. wanted to go longer but did something as rare as a total solar eclipse and showed restraint

sotd: this old house is all i have - against all logic

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 30.00
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15.00

AM - 5. windy and wet. was starting to get into it the last 10 minutes

AM2 - 10. after reading that running laps the same direction constantly can lead to the knee issue i had, i started doing them clockwise instead. tried doing it counterclockwise again last night, and my knee was a little sore when i woke up. gonna keep running clockwise so i don't think it'll be an issue, but it's annoying knowing that the problem is still there, albeit avoidable. only did 10 to play it safe

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 15.00
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10.00

AM - 5 miles. very cold and very windy.

AM2 - another 5. not gonna run again until after work on saturday to let the knee feel good again and hit next week hard. hips after

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 10.00
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9.00

9. could have been a better past 7 days, but the tempo makes up for the sub-par mileage. how jaded i've become where 104 miles is a bad week; i swear that 200-mile week ruined mileage perspective for me. anyway hopefully the knee gets better because if it hadn't rained and i hadn't re-aggravated the knee running the opposite way this week definitely would have been at least a 140-mile one

on a happier note(and also surely jinxing myself(referencing a jinx jinxes the jinx, nullifying it(or that jinxes the jinx of the jinx, ad infinitum))), if i can average more than 115 the next two weeks i'll beat my monthly mileage PR on the shortest month of the year(EDIT: i meant 165 miles per week. i love a good challenge). also i saw a guy on my run that looked EXACTLY like DMX, i asked him where the hood where the hood where the hood at and he didn't have the answer though so i don't think it was him

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 9.00
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5.00

5 after work. started feeling good the last mile; probably because i saw my future wife

sotd: since i left you - the avalanches 

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 5.00
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10.00

AM - 5. felt pretty good. first time i’ve woken up at 4am feeling like i woke up naturally

AM2 - another 5

PM - off. stomach was absolutely killing me by the end of my shift, i can barely stand straight. should be good to go tomorrow, even if it’ll all be in rain.

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 10.00
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25.00

AM - 5. slept in on accident

AM2 - 15. took a lot out of me but that's the feeling i live for. max HR for the run was 130, my resting HR is 34 and i'm under 160 pounds for the first time since november. not in killer running shape yet but those numbers say i'm close to breaking through to that kind of shape again

PM - 5. another storm is rolling in to continue what weather.com told me was “one of the south’s wettest February’s so only gave myself about 4 hours of recovery between runs. i’m not in 4-a-day shape but that’s the recovery i’d give myself between those runs so at least it isn’t a foreign concept. actually felt really good with that in mind; def could have gone longer

SOTD: walk alone - the roots

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 5.00Structures Miles: 20.00
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22.00

AM - 5. slept in again

AM2 - 15. same pace as yesterday's 15, but felt way easier. very happy about that. could have gone for 20 but decided to try for 10 after work instead

PM - 2 after work. would have been fine for 10 if i rested but working 5 hours on your feet isn't recovery, at least when you're actually nursing something. this knee is driving me absolutely mad

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 20.00Structures Miles: 2.00
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5.00

AM - 5 on the treadmill. knee had a very fast turnaround after that post-work run yesterday. i’m sure it’s not gonna vanish by tomorrow or anything, but better than it feeling way worse.

decided to take the rest of the week off to let the knee(hopefully) heal up fully. it's been getting better basically every week, but it's still present enough that it puts a pretty hard cap on my training where i'm limited to about 60% of what i'd be doing without the issue. 60% being 100-110 miles a week just shows i'm in great shape right now :) so i decided i'd rather just get back to 100% sooner by taking a little more time off than later by constantly training and getting a little stronger day-by-day. i can hear the bloggers thinking "about time he has some gd sense". gonna go do some upper body/hips/core at the gym in a minute, then take it easy until sunday

oh also, the past 35 weeks(from the start of my 13 week 100+ mile streak in mid-june to last week) i've run at least 100 miles 20 of those weeks, averaging 122 those 20 weeks. so i guess that'll make me sleep a little better at night in place of the exhaustion from running.

sotd: the champ - ghostface killah. this song gets me hype as hell

Structures Miles: 5.00
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15.00

AM - 5 before work at the gym + hips. knee felt fine but need a few pain-free days before i’ll start to forget about it

PM - 10 after work. last 200m in 40”. def the best i’ve felt the past 5 weeks; not perfect, but i didn’t expect to. still happy about it. having a budweiser while i do my post-run stretching; gotta get those carbs

sotd: eugene - arlo parks. no, you’re narcissistic 

Structures Miles: 15.00
Weight: 162.60
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20.00

AM - 5 at the gym. last heavy-rain day of the month so all my running today will probably be on the treadmill. at least it's only a 20-mile day. can't believe i just said "only a 20-mile day" and meant it

AM2 - 10 miles with a 3-mile progression in the middle in 16:43. first mile in 6:00, second in 5:38, third in 5:05. warmup and cooldown for 10. did a really solid lower-body weight session after. great session! finished all this before 8:30am so a great start to the day.

PM - 5 easy. felt good; knee was a tad sore, but i expected that with the weight session earlier. felt better over time which is the first time that’s happened since it arose(besides yesterday); it’d either get worse or just be the same level of annoying throughout. happy about that.

sotd: money folder - madvillian

Fly's Miles: 10.00Structures Miles: 10.00
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25.00

AM - 5. felt pretty good.

AM2 - 15. ran 13.1 at hilton park because i thought saying i ran a half marathon warmup sounds ridiculous, then drove to the track to do 8x100m but there was a five-o right by the entrance who gave me hell, i thought about saying how the entrance was open and i've ran here at least 100 times and the coaches have even locked up the track while i was still running and told me to hop a fence to get out once i was done, but i remembered last time i argued with a cop about where i was running(at hilton last november) he threatened to arrest me so i just ran the other 1.9 easy. thank god for tuscaloosa police keeping madmen like myself off the streets

PM - 5 miles fartlek. when i say fartlek, it means striding out every couple of minutes, nothing genuinely hard. i've said it before and i'll say it again, fartleks get me into shape better than anything else.

sotd: sloppy toppy - travis scott

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 5.00Structures Miles: 20.00
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30.00

AM - 5. four day streak of waking up at 3:30! it’s getting easier every day

AM2 - 20 miles, i'd say it was probably the easiest 20 i've ever done. anyone who's run 20 miles knows they aren't ever easy, but mentally it went by fast which makes a run that long a lot easier. picked the pace up at the end of the last mile, then as soon as i stopped i started feeling woozy and weird and all that fun stuff, only other time i've felt like that post-run was the 30-mile run, it's like i stave off the tiredness and pain and then it hits all at once as soon as my body knows it's done running. quads are pretty sore, but that's about it. haven't felt the knee problem at all for the past 3 runs which i'm super happy about considering before that i never had a run where i didn't feel it post-strain. if this doesn't aggravate it either that's a great sign. probably could have gone even longer if i had any reason to, probably not 30, but then again i didn't think i could run 30 until i finished that run.

PM - 5 after work. absurdly windy

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 20.00Structures Miles: 10.00
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35.00

AM - 5. ended my streak of waking up at 3:30 by waking up an hour late when my alarm didn't go off, the fact that if you set a timer on an iPhone while it's on vibrate means it won't go off is poor product design. like what, do they expect people to be hiding from a serial killer but also need to know when their casserole is done cooking? get the hell out of here

AM2 - 20. first 5 miles were a little slower then started feeling good for the rest of the run. even picked it up a bit the last mile, felt really good speeding up when i'm that many miles in, it just feels so natural. i think this might be the first time i've done 20-milers two days in a row. good stuff, plus i don't work today so i can get some better recovery. already set the bar for highest mileage week this year!

PM - 10. felt good on the run, alright after; i did start it a bit earlier than usual so that might be why. just need to power through tomorrow and hopefully recover during work on saturday and this will easily be one of my best weeks of running to date.

Structures Miles: 35.00
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15.00

AM - 5. legs felt beat up, but after the shakeout, stretching and rolling they feel better.

AM2 - slow 10. was going to do 20 again but stopped after 7 miles to take a leak and could tell my legs were still beat up enough that i'd be breaking myself down more than getting more fit. probably should have stopped there but did another 3, i'd say the PM run tonight is 50/50. these last 5 days were good enough that i've really gotten everything i need out of the week; coming back next monday ready to build on that fitness is more important than cranking out a few more miles

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 5.00Structures Miles: 10.00
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0.00

gonna take another couple days off for the knee. it’s progressed from painful when i run before my break in january, to getting sore when i run before my break last week, to not feeling it all when i run but getting tight after. not sore or painful like before, but i’d rather just take one more break to get rid of it again and up my training a little slower; i think the pressure of racing in early april made me keep trying to go full throttle too fast and making it harder to get rid of. so i’m gonna dead those races and  just try to get some summer races in and go from there. see y’all around tuesday probably

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429.00
Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 288.00Fly's Miles: 14.00Structures Miles: 127.00
Weight: 162.60
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