Step by step, mile by mile

AM - 5 on sokol, 6:13 pace. even for being a little out of shape, 6:13 felt as easy as it ever has. unfortunately, i landed a bit unevenly running up a grass hill early into mile 3 and my calf felt a little off afterward so stopped shorter than i'd have like to. 

PM - 5 on sokol, 5:58 pace. knee was feeling a bit stiff so decided after a bit it was gonna just be a light run, no workout. the first two or so miles when i was still debating it i was forcing myself to take it easy enough to call it warmup effort, and my HR kept beeping that it was too low to affirm it as such, but i was still running around 6-flat pace. lol.

AM - 11 on sandy, 6:34 pace. easy. knee needed a break from all the laps and loops so took the drive up for an out-and-back.

AM - sandy again for some hill work. started with 4 miles down sandy up to oakmulgee, 5:53 pace. around the usual aerobic run effort, not approaching anywhere near tempo effort. call it a hard warmup. once that was done i'd finished at a hill i've done repeats up a few times before, probably more than anywhere else in bama. i know at some point i gave it the namesake of an ex but i forget which one. wanna say "jamajah". hill is about 350m, did it 11 times with jogging back down for recovery. didn't bother tracking it because i know how my brain works and i knew i'd run the first one too fast and then kill myself trying to match the split for every other repeat. i also know this because every other time i've done repeats on this hill it ended after like 5 max because i did exactly that lol. jogged back to the car for 13.

AM - 5 on hilton, 6:03 pace. came probably 2000 calories short of accounting for what i burned yesterday, and it showed in a pretty lifeless run early this morning. also dropped about 5 pounds off the scale since sunday to get back to my standard training weight. if the cost was a recovery run stopped about a half-hour short, so be it.

AM - 8 on sandy, 6:11 pace. first 3 in 17:20.

AM - 5 on mural right at 5am. forgot my watch.