Step by step, mile by mile

5 miles in the morning before another long shift. Felt like it was never gonna end. At least the legs didn't hurt, and it'll only get easier from here, besides tomorrow morning, good chance that'll be harder.

5 in the morning. Legs weren't hurting after yesterday's shift but I was so exhausted I decided the better move would be to just make up mileage later in the week. Slept way in(in reference to a 4AM alarm) and did an easy 5 at 8:30. Busy week on tap; moving to a new apartment and getting my job training tomorrow, and the last of my summer finals on Thursday. Friday will be a sigh of relief. 

10 miles in the afternoon with 3-5 being a fartlek of half mile on, quarter mile off. Wanted to do more than I did, but started the run at 5PM on a sunny southern day, so I decided after 4 to take the last 5 miles easy to put myself in a good place for a Wednesday long run. Went 2:44, 2:44, 2:42, 2:30 for the "on" portions for 3 miles in 17:27, not bad considering how tough this weekend was.

5 easy in the morning, overslept and had job training at 8 so couldn't get in my morning 10.

10 miles sweating pounds off at 1PM.

5 at 8PM. Uh oh... I think I love triples. For those who haven't experienced it, there's a certain relief you feel during the second run of the day when you got all of the hard running out on the first run, so you can just take it easy and think about how much you enjoy the activity... the feeling you get from this on the third run is 10 times better. Also was listening to Late Registration during it, it's been my favorite album since I first heard it 10 years or so ago but I hadn't listened in a while and I forgot by how great of a margin it's my favorite album. Addiction, Crack Music, Roses, Gone, and Hey Mama, among other tracks, resonate within me like nothing else.

5 at 6:30AM. First 1.5 or so was shaking out the kinks but after that felt pretty good.

10 at 1:30PM. Hot out, but the clouds were nice.

5 miles at 8PM. Also was listening to To Pimp A Butterfly during it, it's been my favorite album since I first heard it 10 or so years ago but I hadn't listened to it in a while and I forgot how much of a piece of auditory art that thing is. Really every song is a favorite for me, but more than the others I love Wesley's Theory, These Walls, How Much A Dollar Cost, You Ain't Gotta Lie, and Mortal Man.

Well, I said at the start of the month I wanted to make this one big for me in terms of running. 476 miles later and I think I took it a little too easy :)

5 at 5:50AM. Took it about 20 seconds a mile slower but felt 10 times better than on yesterday's morning run.

10 at 9:50AM. Wasn't sure if I'd do 3 runs today with my final but some stressful stuff occurred and I needed to run the bad juju off before the test to clear my mind. Gonna be sleeping in my car tonight. Such is life.

5 at 9:10PM. got my lease cleared at 5pm, so no sleeping in the car but i had to spend the next 6+ hours moving with a short running break near the end. super psyched to finally live alone after 21 years... the place is really nice for $450 a month. listened to “the love below” on the run, the album i became a man to(with late registration being the album i became 3/4ths of a man to). love that album, “she lives in my lap” is probably a top 2 favorite song of mine. walked nearly 8 miles with moving and finals today, plus the 20 miles i ran, so i’m exhausted enough now that maybe falling asleep on a hardwood floor won’t be too bad.

5 at 8AM. i think i’m gonna skip the 10 miler today, normally i’d be fine to do it and i believe i still am but my body is semi-wrecked from yesterday and i think i’d break my body down more than i’d make it stronger. plus my car is packed full of my belongings and it’ll take a fair amount of time and energy to move that. i’m taking this weekend easier... with respect to mileage at least, since i will be working my first two shifts at the hospital and they’re both 13 hours. still, very happy i covered 60 miles in 3 days, that’s a ton of running, even for me. 

5 at 2:30PM. i think the vomeros strained my achilles a little more than the pegs would but otherwise fine.

4 at 5:15AM. overslept so all i had time for.

6 in the PM. despite running 7 or so straight 100+ mile weeks, still haven’t beat my highest mileage week from when i was 18. next week that should change hopefully.

typed out a big entry on my running plan but i thought it’d be more exciting to be revealed in my running than through my words. should be a fun read over the next few months, body perservering of course :)