Step by step, mile by mile

12.5 easy after my shift at 7:40pm. stayed later than normal. rained hard all day and on the run so my post-work intramural run was basically running in one giant grassy puddle(more like a lake). that kind of surface doesn’t take it easy on the achilles; feel alright though. 

SOTD: Ask Yourself - Foster The People

10 at around 4:30pm. it’s been raining hard constantly since Saturday, and it’s set to continue until tomorrow night. hard to do 25 when a lot of the places i like to run are unusable(back when i was 18 i ran almost entirely on asphalt and sidewalks, but i don’t like the feeling of it anymore), so i’m gonna ease up today and tomorrow, run a few more 25 mile days before the weekend and then pick the mileage back up for september. it’s been nice to have a day of recovery where recovery doesn’t mean ~13 hours on my feet going up and down the hospital.

SOTD: 30 - Danny Brown. one of my absolute favorite songs. the instrumental sounds like Dr. Seuss ODing on heroin and the lyrics speak to my very being

5 at 7:30am and 10 at 9:20am. pretty uneventful, nothing felt bad though.

SOTD: Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! - The Beatles

5 at 5:10am. one day waking up at 4:45am and running will be a breeze... not today! listened to TLOP by kanye during. wasn’t a huge fan when it came out, but relistened to it on a few road trips in the summer of 2018 and it clicked. my running blog also doubles as a one-man music opinion forum lol

10 right before 7am. my achilles and ankle have been on and off very slightly bugging me the past few days and i’m pretty sure i figured it out. for the past few days after running 4.2 miles into Sandy i run off it down this rocky and overgrown path. i tell myself it’s because i want to explore the area but i know it’s to avoid the killer hill after 4.2. my achilles would protest for a second or two every minute or so after 5, and when i got off the detour it stopped so that confirmed it. guess when i get to tempos they’ll be hilly. pretty sure a 9 mile tempo under 6 minute pace on Sandy would be more impressive than a sub-4 mile repeat.

SOTD: Lost Ones - her excellence herself, Lauren Hill

5 at 6:20am. slept in, but went to bed at 8pm so not that much “in”. nice out, wore a shirt and it wasn’t even 5 lbs soaking wet by the end!

10 at about 8am. ran about 4.5 out on Sandy and explored a new trail for a half mile, it’s got a national park sign with it’s name on it so you know it’s legit. i forgot the name, it was super nice though. i’m gonna shorten the shakeout and lengthen this run soon and i’ll have to alternate between the hills past the gun range and this trail whenever i run Sandy. someone was flattening out new fresh dirt with a bulldozer at the start of Sandy when i got back to my car so i did a couple strides on it; it was super soft and the strides felt good. probably would have picked up the pace towards the end if i hadn’t rushed out the door before the run and forgot the bathroom break. probably gonna jog some miles tonight; i think my legs have been getting a little tight at night from not having a chance to get loosened up, and now that the intramurals are dry again i can hit them up.

12 at 5:30pm. after a looong day of studying, by the first few steps of the run my legs were begging me to let them rip, i figured since the past few days have been easy it wasn’t too risky :-) ran the first 4 progression style in 7:15, 6:44, then my legs said “let’s go already” and i ran 5:55 and 5:30. 12 miles @ 7:14 avg pace. i haven’t ran a run in under mid-7:40’s pace for so long i was beginning to wonder if i even could!

SOTD: Christian Dior Denim Flow - Kanye West

3 mile shakeout at 5:15am. i like doing 3 much more than 5; the only purpose of this run is to loosen up the legs for the second run/workout, when workouts come around. 5 feels like it actually takes a bit of effort, although i’m sure over time it would have gotten effortless.

15 at 6:45am. it felt really good. long and hilly, but good considering. just loved being out there and getting work in. did strides after.

12 after my shift at 7:20pm. legs were surprisingly fine with a 30 mile day; only protesting from the body was some GI issues the last 5 miles.

SOTD: Wildflower - Hank Crawford

3 before my shift. might be bringing the long run back in rotation on fridays; it’ll be the day after a workout when i’m doing workouts, but i think that’d be the perfect way to end the brutal stretch of training each week, body allowing. also bring back sprint saturday, moving it to sprint sunday though.

3 after my shift. was so used to looong runs after my shift that it felt really weird stopping at 3.

said at the end of July that 476 miles was good but i could have done more. 553.5 miles for August and same thing, but you have to progress to do it right and i’d say this was a good month, 550-ish miles seems like a lot less when you actually run it but i know it’s a lot. excited to see how september goes. a 116 mile week being a down week is wild.

SOTD: Stay the Night - The Internet