Step by step, mile by mile

4 at Noon. Felt terrible. Hot out, need to hydrate better.

10x400m that evening. Tried alternating between 85 and 80 with 200m recovery. Ran 83, 76, 85, 73, 85, 80, 85, 79, 84, and 69 running 40 for the first 200m then kicking pretty hard. First workout in two weeks, because of sickness and mileage and other stupid stuff. Area below the left knee hurt a bit on the last repeat, but I finished regardless, and kept the CD short. Will ice tonight.

10th on the yearly mileage board! 

Knee pain has all but completely subsided. I've had to do a lot of walking these past few days so I'm counting it as mileage, a silver lining is I was able to study harder than I ever have(over 10 hours of straight studying Tuesday and Wednesday) for a Calc 3 test. The test was pretty hard, I finished with moments left and I was the fourth person to finish it out of 40-odd honors students, so definitely a suffer-fest for the masses. While the past couple days surely helped, I was very tired going into the test(thank God for coffee. Probably had a gallon of black coffee in the last 60 hours- I've literally moved my coffee machine, grounds, Sugar in the Raw, and gallon jugs of water into my room so I can brew while studying), and I wouldn't have had to study that much(I was being thorough) if I had gone to class more often, up until a week ago I very rarely went and only considered "studying" completing homework, and since I was getting A's on them I considered it good enough. Luckily I've reevaluated those habits. I ran yesterday before class, and my knee was a bit uncomfortable once I started but was only a slight annoyance by the time I finished. Decided to keep not running until the pain is totally gone though, so I'd imagine Saturday I'll be good to go.