Step by step, mile by mile

AM - 3 running to work. kind of invigorating, just running to where you need to go... i hate the feel of sidewalks though so i’m running to autozone after to buy a new car battery. 

AM: slept in on accident... AGAIN. 3 miles at this park across from where I got my battery changed. could have changed it myself to refine my automechanic in me, but the change was free so I opted to save whatever energy I'd have used up. Felt good from a very lackluster past few days, so I ran a little faster. Third mile I picked it up a little but after about a 1000m lap I felt a twinge in my achilles so I stopped, I imagine the cause is a hybrid of taking a big deduction in my mileage and what running I did do on much harder surfaces than I ever do. jogged to and from Publix after as I went on a grocery run after I finished so I'm confident my patent-awaiting S.P.A.R.S.E. method of recovery will do the trick as always(stretch, protein, advil, roll, sleep, and something starting with "e"). In better news, I broke the Strava course record by 20 seconds, although it did say I ran the 1000m in 3:20, which sounds a little bit too fast. I'd say it was 5:40 pace at best. I was trying very consciously to run just under 6 minute pace. Cool park too, even if I probably won't run here again until I get tired of all the intramural/hilton laps I'll be doing the next few months and want a change of scenery for a morning run. The park seemed like a hybrid of this one park in atlanta my grandma lived by that I'd run at when I visited, and legacy park from vernal.

3 around noon. 6:40 last mile, no achilles issues. Had to cut back on running recently over midterms and work, but hopefully I'll be running some full mileage this week, def by next week. I think I needed a bit to step out of exhausting mileage and mentally sharpen up and get my head in the game, gas myself up and think of ways outside running to improve(lifting, balance drills, hops, maybe some circuit training), and plan out 10 weeks of workouts. Wouldn't be surprised if every one of them changes but I liked the outline - 6 weeks of simple stuff, mile/k repeats, tempos, etc, then 3 weeks with a harder Tuesday workout, then 10 days a bit easier, at which point I might drive up to Birmingham's track and see if I can crank anything out. might run before bed tonight if I have time, lots of studying tonight though so I'm not sure.

Tuesday night I realized the two midterms I had just started studying for were wednesday morning and not friday morning. Spent all night studying, did okay considering on the first one. Went to the second one, and it got moved back to next wednesday, when I have another midterm. So I didn't run yesterday. Today I realized that other wednesday midterm got moved up to tomorrow morning. So that's fun. Anyways 3 at noon, felt good, I probably need a few runs to limber up before I can be running 20+ miles a day again so don't expect nothing crazy from me for a bit. Might run tonight if I have time

Ran 3 at noon, got back to my car, as I was about to leave I got out and ran another 2. Even though I already planned on running after work I still wanted to get out again and run more as I drove off. Glad to see I haven't lost any fire

AM: 3 before work. Let's get this money

PM: 3 after I got that money. Felt really good; was gonna do 7 but I felt TOO good... was worried I might get excited and drop a 5:20 last mile and wreck myself. What a crock, me talking about playing it safe lol. Was gonna write a long post about how real training(more than jogging) begins tomorrow and how I'm gonna give it my all and do everything I can to perfect my ability, but I think Hov said it best in 2001:

"the takeover, break's over!"