Step by step, mile by mile

5 x 5

5, 7, 5

Big week of mileage on the docket, I think. Legs felt a little more beat up than I'd like on an easy day

AM - 8

First of many this week

AM2 - 8 again

16 before 4am lol

PM - 5 before work

PM2 - 9

Gonna call my shot extremely early and say I'm beating my weekly mileage record if it doesn't rain too much through Saturday

AM - 5

AM2 - 8

Most mentally aggravating run in years, all thanks to a truly absurd amount of bugs flying at me. Don't know what they're called but they got long legs are thinner than a toothpick and are total pricks. Sounds familiar

AM3 - 8

Only took about an hour recovery between those 2

PM - 7. Hot

PM2 - 7

PM3 - 5

Felt significantly better on this run than the other two PM ones

AM - 7

Soaked and starving

AM2 - 8

PM - 8

Only took about an hour of recovery between 8s again

PM2 - 7

PM3 - 5

PM4 - 5

Absolute crawl. Weather and work make for less running opportunities the rest of the week but most definitely squeezed every mile possible out of the last 2 days

AM - 7

AM2 - 10

PM - 8

Felt good, too good. Thought this was my pre-work run but turns out I don't have to go in today. Don't think I've strung together 3 straight 40+ days before, that should change tonight

PM2 - 8

Noticably tanner than I was this morning

PM3 - 6

Think I averaged less than 90 minutes recovery following the 3 prior runs. So obviously I felt awesome on this

PM4 - 6

I've displayed plenty of insane intent through running but 18 runs for 125 miles in just under 64 hours is on an entirely different level. Just as hard mentally as it was physically. And I did it for nothing but fun! Lock me up!

AM - 8

AM2 - 13

Low-ish mileage day, got most of it done before the rain set in

PM - 6 right before work

Didn't intend to run again but wasn't raining much so got in the post-work mileage earlier

Was willing to call my shot on day 1 of the week of it being a big one and after a lot of thinking the last day or so on how much I can realistically hit I'll double down and say if I don't hit 250 through Saturday it'll haunt me for a long while to come(I don't expect another attempt like this any time soon)

Just wish it wasn't broadcasted for heavy rain tomorrow, but I've made it this far. With a lot of 9 minute miles but who cares

AM - 8

Step by step, mile by mile...

AM2 - 10

Really wish I'd bought new shoes before or at some point during the week; don't think I have a pair of pegs with less than 1200 miles on their tread. I'd have been running in my worn-down waterproof pegs today regardless though

PM - 8

PM2 - 8

Legs are coming back around... No idea how but had some decent turnover the last few miles

PM3 - 7

Felt sicker than a dog for most of it. Maybe because I took a short recovery time after the last run and the coffee didn't have time to settle, but considering it only popped up after my neighbor forced me into a handshake introduction with her grandson, I have my own theories

Anyway after like 5 bit the bullet and forced the issue but even then still felt pretty bad up until right now. Guess that's it for the day

AM - 6

Cold windy and dark. Felt pretty sick by the end too, it passed quickly though

AM2 - 6 right before work

AM3 - 9 right after work

NHL tangent: very excited to see Jake Guentzel on a line with Aho and Svech(would have been way cooler if it were Elias Petterson but alas). Just don't know if the canes' goaltending won't wilt in the playoffs even if Freddie Andersen became a franchise legend last postseason

I will be telling my grandkids(or random kids) about how good Frederik Andersen played in a conference finals series our hurricane got swept in and how it was the most entertaining sweep in sports history

PM - 6

And that's 250 miles in under a week folks. Legs feel fine, have been needing to take a leak somewhat alarmingly often the last couple days but that aside body held up fine for it. Really wasn't keeping on top of my nutrition, didn't take any supplements and spent maybe 5 minutes total all week stretching. It was all off 13 years of distance running strengthening my legs and willpower baby

About 10 minutes of easy jogging that night that I'm not counting. Only out there to slightly work up the appetite

AM - 6

AM2 - 6

PM - 6

4 x 6

PM - 6

PM2 - 7

Working nights for a bit, gonna make getting mileage a little harder. Maybe

PM - 6

PM2 - 7

AM - 6

Would have been a pretty good immediate post-work run had I not taken a sip of the pre-work energy drink I left in my car right before the run and immediately gotten the hiccups

AM2 - 6

Very tired. Think I figured out how to work running around the night shift/new sleep schedule, unfortunately it's storming hard the rest of the day so won't get to do it in full today. No amount of rain will stop me from getting in my runs, but tornado warnings and large hail probably will

PM - 6

Meteorologist must be latin for massive liar because I went to bed with the forecast saying it'd start raining hard by 10am and by this 5pm run it still hadn't started raining yet

AM - 5

AM2 - 6

PM - 6

PM2 - 6

Switching to nights also switched me to normal weekends; gonna enjoy it after I'm off in the morning

AM - 5 iaw(immediately after work)

In dire need of some maxing and chillaxing. Hard to do with a timer in your head that goes off after 2 hours of free time saying you need to run right now or you'll die

Really hoped that huge week would put a halt on it, but that was just wishful thinking

AM2 - 6

Something about these second post-work AM runs. Hints of delirium

PM - 5 on the treadmill

First half mile at just under 10mph but my calf felt a little strained(hadn't stretched or ran since I woke up so not surprising, hopped off and stretched and ran the rest at 8mph watching the end of iron man

Remember seeing it in theaters as a 9 or 10 year old(good time but was no spiderman 3). Crazy to think of how far superhero movies have come in the zytgeist looking back from that moment as the turning point

PM - 3, 3 X 6

Uneventful but felt pretty good

PM - 2 X 6

AM - 5 raw(right after work)

AM2 - 6 decently quick

Way too cold, hit me on the first run it would probably be my last run in below freezing for the next 7-8 months but that didn't make me cherish the experience any more. Did see three separate shooting stars during that 5 though

PM - 6

Gave myself an hour or two after waking up to eat, drink coffee, etc. but felt about as mediocre as I would have rolling out of bed and heading straight into the run. Guess there's a reason I've always been so partial to the shakeout run although night shift screws the whole system up

AM - 5 raw

AM2 - 6

Tired on it but might go again before hitting the hay

AM3 - 5

Running right before my night shift then running 3 more times after. Great idea that I totally planned

PM - 6

AM - 5 raw

AM2 - 6

PM - 6 in the rain

AM - 5 raw

Rain forced a treadmill run. Ran the first 1.5 or so at 10mph but calf felt a little iffy on a couple steps so hopped off stretched it out and ran the rest at 8mph. Felt pretty comfortable at the pace coming right after a full shift and having probably not split a 5-minute mile in 5 or 6 weeks(elbows still scrapped from that one). Next shooting star I see I'll have to remember to wish against taking a nasty fall on a run again any time soon

AM2 - 6 in pretty heavy rain

First 1.5 or so had to stop at least 10 times hopping off the road for passing cars and being tired and cranky had me cursing most of them out the moment I saw them(not from lip-reading distance mind you). So, imagine how I must have felt when a truck hit a puddle next to me that left me soaked after I'd already ran out of vitriol for their vehicle. Vindicated? Wet?

PM - 6

PM - 8

Might as well have not run at all!

AM - 5

AM2 - 8

AM3 - 8

Nearly hit 20 miles before sunrise

AM4 - 6

Think this is my highest mileage AM to date; not gonna fact-check that right now. Time to pass out

PM - 7. Slow

About 15 minutes after waking up. Or as they say in Florida, slacking off!

PM2 - 6

40-milers don't seem to get much easier with every one added to my rap sheet; maybe mentally: not having to doubt my legs holding up as much as the first few tries. Regardless, happy to get a good mileage day in after mostly doing the bare minimum(by my scale) the last two weeks

3 x 5

5

AM - 5 raw on the treadmill @ 6:18 pace

AM2 - 7

PM - 5

AM - 5 raw on the treadmill(6:50 pace)

AM2 - 7

Need new trainers badly

PM - 6

Gonna check Hibbett before work; if they still don't have any pegs within like 2 sizes of 11.5 as they didn't when I checked last month might have to finish this month in Crocs

PM - 6 before work. Overslept by like 4 hours

PM - 5

Don't think I can run another mile in these pegs without my legs or the shoes themselves exploding. More irritating because I actually went and got new trainers Thursday night, but they still didn't have pegs and the on sale ones I got instead I immediately gleaned I'd never be able to run in with how (unnecessarily) wide the shoes get by the inner sole. What I get for not trying them on in the store

PM2 - 6

Didn't get a new pair of shoes but instead used an old(but less busted) pair of Nike structures that have been sitting in my trunk for probably 8 months at least, and ive had to own for 3 years or more . I'm hoping they can at least last me through the night if not the weekend.

PM2 - 6

Don't want to use being on my feet 40 hours a week immediately after the 250-mile week as an excuse for not running more so it's very much bothering me I couldn't even hit 700 for the month with a week that huge in there. Still should be my second biggest month by a decent margin

Edit: memory-holed my 666-mile January this year

AM - 5

AM2 - 5

PM - 7

6! 6! 6! The number of the beast!

(Pretty sure I also said this at the conclusion of my 666-mile January)