Step by step, mile by mile

7 miles in San Diego. After a six hour plane ride and basically no food or water the past couple days, I felt really bad on the run. Pace wasn't bad, started running 7:10's and brought it down to 6:30's by the end, but it felt difficult. Very hilly. I've eaten since then and I feel much better. Wanted to get 15 but it's alright.

AM - Walked my sister to her school in the morning, then ran a mile back. My pace for the most part was 5:30-40. After about 30 minutes left for my real run. A little over half way into the first mile I realized I was going a little quick and ran a 2:18-19 last 800m for 4:58. Stopped after that for about a minute, ran to the park and jogged around and back to the apartment for 7.

PM - 8 on the same trail as yesterday. Man I'm out of shape. Had to take a couple 15 second breathers after some brutal hills. 6:40's for the pace so that's good. For lunch I had fried rice but it turned out to be a portion larger than my head. To-go boxes are for losers, but my stomach felt like a loser on the run too. I'm eating lots of veggies, carbs, and meat lately, hydrating well(even though the weather here still beats me up), and icing and rolling. Feels great to be healthy. Def tired from some good work today.

Moderate run down a trail to the lake. Pace was somewhere in the 6:30's, watch stopped midway. Difficult trail. Made sure to grind the uphills. I felt good the first 3-4 miles and hurt for the next couple but felt strong in the end too. No stops. Can feel the uptake in mileage in the legs.

Drove down to University of San Diego for another speed session! 2 sessions in less than 5 days. Woof. 400, 200, 200, 200, 300. 200 recovery between everything. Times were 61, 27.0, 27.4, 26.9, 44.5. Ouch. If I had spiked myself I'm pretty sure I would have bled straight lactic acid! My arms were full of it too which I've never felt before. The 400 and 300 didn't feel too hard, 400 was just striding out and 300 couldn't go fast.  CD for 7.

2 miles to get my sister from elementary.

6 easy miles on the trails. Gained about 350ft and almost all of that was in the 4.5-5.5 mile so that was a bit tougher. Once the hill started to get more gradual I focused on keeping my form solid because my legs were tired. That was around 6:00 pace, which wasn't too hard of an effort.

AM - raining hard outside, so I had to try to do a tempo on the treadmill. Did a mile in 5:00 and stopped. I had some chips and salsa about 40 minutes before the run, and the AC wasn't working. I'll try something quicker later if it stops raining.

Did 2 miles of 1 minute on, 1 off. Wanted to go for an hour but it was still raining hard and I just didn't feel great.

Nothing today. Planned on running in st George with Sage but it there wasn't enough available sunlight. 

Past 2 months have been pretty unstructured. No races, scarce core/strength, running fast when I wanted to go fast. Running slow (on the rare occasion) when I wanted. I found a pretty good plan for weekly training. My first race is mid January. I think I'll race the 3k and 600m as tune-ups. I'll see how my fitness is but I want to be under 9:00 and 1:30.