Step by step, mile by mile

Gonna start doing my runs in minutes. 30 this morning. Glad I took yesterday off, my legs felt much better. Not good, but better. That course really beat me up.

Another 30 minutes in the afternoon. I ate a lot of junk food over the weekend, but now I'm ready to put get some quality mileage in these next few weeks.

AM - 15 minutes. Suprisingly didn't feel any sickness from yesterday, but I wasn't out for long.

PM - 45 minutes. Ran to the fields, took off the shoes and shirt, and just ran on the grass, letting my mind wander. It was nice.

AM/Noon - 60 minutes easy before lunch. Very hot today, but I toughed it out. Again I ran to the fields and went barefoot until I had about 7 minutes left. Excited to build my mileage back up again. I hate to admit it but I think I was in better shape in August.

PM - 20 minutes easy before dinner.

AM - 50 minutes. Slept in to be well rested for my calc test, so it was once again very hot out by the time I set out. I made sure to do the most hilly run I could in the time I had. I did a faster k in the middle in 3:24. Legs weren't really wanting to do quick stuff, but I sped up throughout it.

PM - busy with classes. S/O to all my blogger buddies of which I have too many to list at the moment. Special S/O to PV for winning state, and Zack and Ryan for running great races!

AM/noon - 30 minutes. I felt miserable, it's too (explicative) hot here. I'm not a fan of Alabama. But I guess I just gotta start running in the mornings. Had ice tea and this peachy oatmeal thing after which made me feel quite a bit better.

PM - set out a couple hours later for a 60-minute run with 7x1 minute pickups on the grass in the middle. Glad I got the bad running for the day out of the way, bc I actually felt pretty good on these. Avg'd .21 miles on the pickups, which didn't feel too hard, definitely could have held it for longer. Did some strides and stretches and cooled down. I think I'm gonna go back to mileage over minutes. It feels better.

AM - 4 miles before breakfast. Felt real good so the pace was a bit quicker. It was actually fall weather today, I had to wear a long sleeve shirt because it was in the 50's! Very windy.

PM - 8 miles. My main trainers have almost 500 and 600 miles on them, and I'm really not too fond of the structures, they're kind of clunky. The pegasi have done me real well in the past.

An idea(or two) about upcoming training:

I think I'm going to do an easy run in the morning from now on for Monday-Friday, and a real session in the afternoon, either a faster-paced run or an actual workout. I'll do a long run on Saturday. I think I might start taking Sunday's off again, which has been an on again/off again thing for me, but last November was a time where I was really hitting some quick paces, and what I was doing was fast stuff every time I ran, and taking Sunday's off

AM - 3 w/ strides. Watch was being wonky w/ the pace

PM - 4 miles. Tried to do a 2-mile tempo, started off around 5:35 pace, then worked it down to about 5 flat, but suddenly my back tightened up way bad up and I had to stop until it stopped seizing up. On the way back a golf cart cut in front of me so I pushed the pace to catch up to him for a minute or so. That was around a high 5:30 pace.