Step by step, mile by mile

AM - 6 on mural, 7:20 pace. dark out.

PM - 4 on mural, 7:20 pace. also dark out!

AM - 8 on mural at 3am, 7:52 pace. decided to run without a flash and hope my eyes could adjust to the dark, but clouds shrouded the moonlight pretty early on so i had to take it slow to make sure my footing was solid. out of my last 25 runs i'd say for maybe 2 of them was the sun out in any way shape or form. i've also been sleeping in a coffin 

AM - 8 on mural, 7:22 pace. ignore that i started this run at 10:45 monday night and finished before midnight. regretted having cayenne powder seasoned with eggs as part of my pre-run food. at least it rained earlier so it wasn't too humid. wanted to go for 10 but phone/flash died once again after about 30 minutes, as was foretold by the village elder many generations ago

AM - 3 on mural, 7:12 pace. ignore i actually ran this at 11 tuesday night. was gonna go for 8 but i didn't eat much before and had some preworkout powder that just ended up making me sick on an empty stomach after about 15 minutes. 

AM2 - 6 on mural at 2am, 7:11 pace. threw up during it and didn't even break pace to do it; would have rather it happened during mile 6 than mile 1 though. damn cayenne. on a brighter note this past day might have been the last 90-something day of the year, if we're lucky. also the last half-mile was ~5:30 pace because it started raining and i had my phone in my hand and nowhere to shield it(1" shorts). haven't ran that fast in a long time and it felt very good to do so. even if i could see my shadow from the moonlight and my form looked awful :)

PM - strength workout at the apartment. mostly core + push ups dips and a little resistance band work. been doing it every 2 or 3 days the last couple weeks

AM - 6 on sokol at 6am(finally slept like a normal person for once), 6:18 pace. i knew i was putting on the metaphorical restrictor plates by doing all of my runs in the middle of the night the last month or so, but i didn't think i'd drop a full 60+ seconds off the pace at the same effort just by adding sunlight into the equation. maybe i'm not as washed as previously thought. would have liked to go longer but it was very humid and by the 30-minute mark i felt like i was on fire. thus you see why i've been running on grass fields at 1am(and why i don't try to avoid getting hit by the sprinklers when i do). the good news is i'm in the ~15% of the country that's not going to be experiencing a warmer than normal autumn this year, so hopefully i only have 2-3 more weeks until running outside isn't a pressure cooker simulator

AM2 - strength workout again. about 30 minutes compared to the usual 10, mostly because i did about 10 different hip stretches/exercises during it. 

AM - 8 on mural, 6:49 pace. ignore that i started at 11:50 thursday night. also ignore i'd been up for 20 hours by the start of the run. i had to breathe through some rough chest cramps for most of it but considering how my legs were moving i'd say it didn't matter much.

AM2 - strength workout. feeling better and looking fitter every time i do this workout shirtless in front of a mirror like the narcissist i am. ended up waking up naturally off 4 hours of sleep like i have for most of the month; i swear i want to sleep more but here we are

AM - 6 on mural, 6:57 pace. ignore i started at 11:58pm friday night(so close). part of the rubber sole tore off my left shoe as i was stretching, it obviously affected the shoe and how it landed but it's my only water-resistant pair so i still ran what i could in them. lightning on the horizon.