Step by step, mile by mile

6 on the rail trail in Paris(TX), gonna be here for the next week. At the turnaround I had a bit of tightness in my right calf but after maybe a mile at most it faded away and even doing stretches now I don't feel anything. Hopefully it just had to be run out. Humidity was through the roof(combined with two weeks of lackluster training) so an easy run at 6:49 avg pace meant a higher heart rate than usual. Happy I got it done! 

Lots of cross training all day since I'm in a ranch family now. Biggest workout was when my dad cut down two 50 foot trees and chopped them up and I had to move them about 30 feet to the burn site. Managed to carry, drag, or flip some very heavy limbs, felt exausted after like I'd just ran my body to shreds in a run and felt happy because I miss that feeling, and hope to feel it soon. I wore the pegs all day and my calf was aching by the end I think it means the problem may be from the shoes, which would be amazing because I just can't figure out a way to get rid of this darn thing. If so all I have are my saucony flats with me(always kept a pair of flats and spikes in the trunk since high school, never stopped), but the blisters would be 100% worth getting to crank out some high mileage right now. Probably gonna shed a few pounds this next week, I haven't been able to get under 160 all year despite getting down to 153 in the fall.

4 miles in the morning, it's my lil sister's bday and she wanted to ride her bike alongside me, so about a mile at 11 minute pace and then 3 at about 6:48 pace. Calf ached for the first 10 minutes and then went away

I knew I could do an 8-miler since I did 6 yesterday, so instead I decided to see if I could do a two-a-day. Answer is yes, felt no calf pain and was cruising even though it was very warm and humid. Managed to power through without dying off but as soon as I finished I was cooked. Took a minute and ran another mile. 6:19 avg pace

6 in the morning, woke up super groggy so it took about 3 miles to loosen up. 7:06 pace

3 easy in the morning, and 5 in the afternoon on a very hilly and hot route. First day since I initially hurt the calf where I never felt it which is excellent. pretty sure the PM run would be a tad easier than tempo effort on a flat cool course.

same as yesterday

Got back from Texas at about 7AM and passed out immediately so I only did 5 easy after I woke up around 4 or 5PM. Very hot out. Sad to leave Texas but excited for the summer to start! Classes start next week and my hospital job starts the week after.

Easy 5 on the soccer fields in the afternoon, super hot out. Should start working my way back to hard training again tomorrow, hopefully I can will myself to that 5AM run mentality in the morning but if not I have a few days to transition before classes so it's alright. Psyched the calf healed up, I've never had something stick around for that long and I know injuries can be a lot worse but just two weeks had me going crazy so I'm just super happy to get back to training, plus it was a good learning experience, and got me even more hyped to train my rear end off this summer!