Step by step, mile by mile

AM - 2 miles. Technically on Saturday night, but I wanted to start up again on a Sunday. 7:10 pace. I didn't really feel super pumped to start running again during the break but while I was waiting outside(for about ten minutes) for my watch to link, I just felt butterflies in my stomach. Never really hurt coming back from a break, but today my legs ached something awful. Also never taken a break for more than a few days so that's probably why. It's gonna take some time to rebuild the system, but I'm excited about it.

PM - 3 miles w/ strides. Splits were 6:45, 6:23, 5:37. Wasn't planning on running it like a tempo but the second mile I started hurting and I wanted to see what I could do on the last one. Didn't have the pain like I did earlier, which was good. Not gonna try any fast stuff like this for a while, but it was definitely a good run. Before it felt like when I was hurting it was because I was blowing up, but today hurt way more than that. Man I love running.

3 miles 6:56 pace zigzagging through the fields. It was getting dark and I was wary of twisting my ankle because I've done that often on this route but I didn't. Kept it easier the first two miles. Last mile I started thinking of Ragnar, and how much fun I had doing them. I hope come a couple years Connor and hell raiser and I and more of the boys can form a good team. Anyway that made for a 6:27 3rd mile, which is pretty fast these days. I've negative split every mile of every run so far, but that doesn't mean much.

Racketball + 3 miles later that night. Only used my watch to measure the quad, it's almost exactly a half mile so 3:16 for that, hope I get to do some quicker stuff on it before the semester's over. Didn't really speed up on the quad, the pace might not be 6:30's, but it was probably sub 7. Felt good.

Was going to do more but my stomach was awful and I've felt pretty bad throughout the day. 7:04 pace, all on grass which made it a little harder.

4 miles @6:45 pace. I'm gonna stop putting my paces on the blog for a while. I think I psychologically just have a thing where I gotta have a worthy pace on the blog, and it's much easier to build mileage back up when you're running easy. I've ramped up mileage quickly many times running however I feel and I've never had injury problems doing so, so that's the plan. HOT out! And humid. I was dying.

Off to enjoy my first day of being 19.

Wanted to do more but felt sick.