Step by step, mile by mile

All my midterms getting switched around bc of sucka professors, anyway on Friday a midterm got moved up to tomorrow, even though I had all weekend I had no time to study because of work. Well, until right now. It's only junior-level engineering so I'll be okay, still might have to spend all my remaining weekend energy on preparing for the sleep deprivation, might run later if I make a good dent in the material and wanna run off steam before bed. If not I'll be back tomorrow. Didn't realize how hard it is to balance all this life stuff when literally anything unexpected happens 

oh also in better news, I have my first weekend off in over 4 months in a few days :)

okay, one midterm left on Wednesday, so gonna start running again tomorrow. Not a terrible september of training, started hot and fell off but if I can pick it back up for October I see no reason to get hung up on it.

AM: 4 on Sandy. legs felt a bit lethargic from the time off but nothing hurt. happy to get out there.

PM: 4 in the evening. Felt even better than this morning; still need a few more runs to loosen up everything and be in full form but doing both runs today and legs not hurting is all I could ask for. I guess the 6-minute pace was just the running gods being generous :)

SOTD: Lift Yourself - Kanye West

AM: 4 in the morning. had fun doing it

PM: 8 in the evening. First 6 decided to get a bit outside of my pocket by running the first mile a tad faster and then just trying to hold that effort and see how the pace dropped. Splits were 6:59, 6:40, 6:33, 6:24, 6:12, 5:45(okay, I increased the effort for this one a little), 6:25 avg. As soon as I finished I realized I was overheating, hard. High was 99 today so it was still pretty warm when I ran, excited to see what the pace is like in a month or two when I'm in better shape and it's cooler out. Got a little down on myself because that last 400m of the 5:45 I almost fell a couple times because the legs were turning to lead, but I put in perspective with the heat and especially the break I'm coming off of. Jogged 2 more without my watch after. Had fun out there.

SOTD: Don't Fear(The Reaper) - Blue Oyster Cult. A top 10 song of all time in my opinion, I don't have a definitive list but I know Billie Jean, Stairway, and this song would all be on it. Probably American Pie too. if I had a hip-hop song it'd probably be either Jesus Walks(Kanye) or N.Y. State of Mind(Nas)

AM: 5 easy. Only got about 3 hours of sleep last night so legs were a little tight still from last night. Just ran a bit easier and thought about training, still way faster than 99% of the paces I've ran at this year. Was planning on doing 7, but during it I thought about my weekly mileage I planned to do and realized it was probably too high, I'll need to sacrifice the mileage to add things like weights and workouts into the equation, so 5 is all I'll be doing most mornings. Don't worry, the mileage will still be high enough to make sure Conner, Mike, Yasir, or Jason never get that #1 mileage spot again once I hit the full miles next week ;)

no run in the PM; woke up from my nap and it was raining torrentially which continued about an hour so I knew Hilton park would be a huge puddle. Hopefully not the case tomorrow morning. I def can suck it up and run anyway, but it's not a hard week. Gonna do something faster tomorrow morning, maybe some uphill 400's.

Also getting woken up by the sound of rain, just rain, kinda serene. Felt zen-like. SOTD is ummmm A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre - Outkast

AM: a bit over 2 in the morning, rounding down. Slept through the alarm so it's all I had time for, I threw in some lighthearted fartlek running after the first mile, just around 100m or so of 5:40 pace every 400m or so. After I started that the easy running went down from 7:10 to 6:40 pace. Hopefully I'll get in a better run tonight and one tomorrow morning before the storm is supposed to hit. Since with school and work I'm very limited on time, I'm having trouble figuring out where to put the long run in, the only two options are the day before a workout, or Sunday, either before my 12 hour shift or after. If I were just doing 15-18 miles I'd be fine the day before a workout but I wanna try to get it up to 27, even if it takes a few weeks to get there, so I'm gonna try before, which means sleeping 3 hours, waking up, running 3 hours, and trying to get another hour of sleep before work if possible. Luckily I don't work this weekend so I can try it out without the actual shift after. Might not be wise to run 140 miles next week because this week's been lackluster so far mileage-wise, might just try for about 100 with workouts and add the other 40 the next week. Or maybe the ability to run so much is in my heart and not my legs. We'll see.

PM: a tad under 7 in the evening, adding up with the morning run to a tad over 9, rounding down again. Felt good, 6:50's and 7:00's felt easy. Legs were still a little achey from the time off, but nothing specific or painful. Excited for real training; can't wait to bring my manic approach for running lately to workouts.

SOTD: Combat - Danny Brown. His new album dropped today and I had the weird horn sample on the track stuck in my head the entire PM run

3 in the morning. All for today since I'll be doing a longer run early tomorrow, not a long run though since I don't wanna jump into training too fast; I'd be alright with 15 miles if nothing feels wonky. Last run before real training! Let's go!

SOTD: Let It Be - The Beatles