Step by step, mile by mile

AM - 8 on mural, 6:21 pace. course was wet, but not as bad as i feared; guess the sprinklers weren't on last night. tried picking up the pace for the last mile, but my left achilles tightened up about a quarter-mile in so i eased back off and it let me finish the run. other than that, felt good.

AM - 10 easy on hilton, 6:48 pace. went to bed right after work yesterday because i was exhausted and woke up naturally about an hour before my alarm. didn't feel like finding a way to waste that extra hour so just did the run at 4am on hilton, although the humidity had it feeling like 4pm out there. always enjoy finishing a morning run before the sun rises, can't really put into words why. my guess is it's because it reminds me of when i'd do 5 miles at 4am every morning when i was doing 3 or 4 runs a day. sometimes i can't believe i ran as much as i did a couple years ago

AM2 - plyos and core at the gym. first plyo session in forever went better than expected. core was a reminder that i literally never do core and am stupid for it. was still doing some advance exercises though

sotd: eyes to form shadows - dalek. sometimes i think the music i listen to nowadays would make a 16-year-old me piss myself

AM - 10 on sokol, 6:20 pace. i was a bit sore from the gym yesterday, but nothing too bad. weather absolutely sucked, nearly 80 and 99% humidity by 6:00am when i started. definitely had to work to get up those grass hills. solid run.

AM - 5 on sokol, 6:33 pace. died out there, although i think it's primarily due to the unreasonably excessive heat wave we're currently under. the weather channel used something called RealFeel™️ to tell me it was already the equivalent of 86 degrees out by 5:45, dear god. might get a treadmill tempo in tomorrow morning if it's still this rough out.  hell, might do that either way.

AM - 5 early on hilton, 6:48 pace. rained heavy last night but i couldn't mentally commit to the treadmill so i ran on asphalt. gross. anyway go braves for leading the NL east for the first time this season! that division is a joke but with our best player out for the year it'd still be nice to see them get smoked in the NLDS

AM - 6 easy on sokol, no watch.

PM - 4 on hilton, 5:56 pace. the 8 or so hours leading up to the run were some of the most nerve-racking of my life from a few different angles, and those feelings weren't exactly swayed so by the time i got to hilton i was a time-bomb ticking down to a panic attack. i'm not sure if i ran it off or just lengethened the fuse. either way felt excellent, i was flying but wasn't going hard. 

AM - 6 on sokol, 6:25 pace. left achilles felt a little tight at points(mostly when running on soft dirt), and i knew if i went too hard i'd be dealing with it all day at work and the PM run would be off the table, so kept it short. besides that felt pretty good.

PM - 3 on hilton, 6:15 pace. would have gone longer but i got a super sharp stomach cramp after i hit 3 so i stopped there. some very ominous flashing clouds on the horizon told me tomorrow morning's run is gonna be sloppy. this one was too, for the record. it just wasn't raining during the run itself.