Step by step, mile by mile

4 in the morning. Moving long run to tomorrow

8 + strides in the afternoon

Doing the long run in a little while. If I can manage the time this week to increase last week's mileage I'll probably be getting close to new mileage territory(my highest week is 114 when I was 18)

19 mile long run on a bright hot midday and good lord was it tough. I've ran 20 miles twice and 19 once so this is tied for my third longest run ever. I've been pretty good at knowing what I'm in for on every run but this one took so much more out of me than I expected. My legs didn't feel bad during but I kept getting sweat in my eyes which was awful, need to start hydrating during these long runs, and definetly not do them this late in the day this summer again. Glad I got it done, and hopefully legs feel livlier soon because getting up the porch stairs of my house was much harder than it's ever been, I'd be okay with taking an off day since I managed to hit 300+ miles which was my A goal for April

managed to swing by the rec center when i left to get some food in between studying sessions and get 15 minutes of biking in just to get the blood flowing in the legs.

6 in the morning, managed to get out the door before 6AM so that's a big step for me. Jogged the first mile or two and worked down to the normal pace naturally, legs were tired but not hurting anywhere. Need to get better at morning runs because this was a good start to the morning

10 miles + strides after my mechanics of materials final. I hope I did as well as I think I did because I really don't want to take this class again lol. Legs felt fine, I think I shook the long run out of them

6 in the morning, got out before 6AM again. If I'm going to miss a run this week it's probably going to be within the next 36 hours

Another 6 after today's final. Just one more day and two more finals and my hair can stop turning grey for another few months

Also s/o to my boys Connor and Kenny bc they're both out rn but hopefully recovered and back on the blog soon!

6 in the morning. Managed to get out the door at 5:30 as opposed to 5:59 the last couple of days

Another 6 after my 7PM final. Now real training can begin pretty soon! I'm beyond excited for it

ran with a watch today, hopefully doing that from now on. first mile i felt slow and tired, my body lasted me through finals but now that they’re over i can feel the lack of sleep and proper nutrition, proper recovery, etc. anyway I ran the first mile in 7:05 which really surprised me, i guess i’m in better shape than i thought. tried not to speed up and ran a 6:36 second mile, and i got excited from that and tried to run the next mile around tempo effort. 5:36 with a faster second half. then drove to the rec center, ran another mile and worked out/stretched/core/etc

4 in the evening. Wanted to do 8 or 12 but I didn't get much sleep last night and felt exausted on the run, but better as it went on. Learned how to change autolap and now I have it set to 4 miles which I like a lot. 6:48 avg pace which leads me to believe 6 min pace might actually be easy, which is a big confidence booster with workouts starting next week. Need to start going to bed early if I'm waking up at 5 though

10 miles pretty easy at noon. Legs felt tight at the start from lifting yesterday but better as I went on. watch died at 9.4 but for that it was 6:56 avg pace. Supposed to storm a LOT soon and I'm not looking forward to it!!