8/31/07

I got this awful cold and decided to halt my running. I remember running with a cold once in high school. After my run I wound up coughing non-stop for nearly an hour. Not fun that's for damn sure. This is my first run back. As soon as I start running after a long time (10 days is a long time) off, it's amazing how good it feels. The movement of running just feels so natural and happy to me. Running made me realize just how much I've missed doing it. I plan on running the usual five miles tomorrow morning before I leave for Jersey.

8/21/07 - Heaven

This was the run after I got home from my date. I decided to just throw my running clothes on and do a quick three miles. It felt so good running I did five. I love those days/nights where you feel like you can run forever. I stopped at five miles to favor my knee a bit as it's been better but still whiny lately.

8/19/07

Better, I was getting there.

8/18/07

This one hurt, I think it was hot out as well. Either way it didn't go so well.

8/14/07

My knee started hurting so I took some time off. Getting back into it but taking it easy.

8/11/07 - Run to Shea

Mets run to Shea (5k or 3.2m)
Race time: 35:10 min
Pace: 11:20/mile

To be fair I kept pace with Katty and Christine. Christine has never run more than a mile or two before so I was DAMN proud of her for keeping up. As far as I go, I went to bed around 3am the night before (I had to wake up at 6am to get there), was drunk as hell when I did go to bed and woke up due to a phone call from my sister around 6:15 going.. OH FUCK I'm late.

All in all the fact that I was awake/sober enough to run this race is a small miracle!

8/10/07

Weather: Wet, not quite raining but misting and downright cold (for the summer anyway)

This run was good I was trying to up my pace a lot and I'm happy I succeeded. 30 seconds below my normal pace isn't bad for a tempo run. Or maybe I'm still confused as to what a tempo run is, but I didn't have much time to run so I had to make it fast and short.

8/9/07 - Morning run with Jen

Weather: Cool with a nice breeze by the water, great morning to run

Actually this was a pretty good run. I was kind of worrying about getting to work on time after it (I had to be in early), but we kept a pretty good pace and got it done. Seeing this makes me realize it wasn't all in my head, Jen does slowly creep her pace up throughout a run.

8/7/07 - Back on the horse

Weather: low 80s, humid and sticky

The entire run I was thinking: "I don't want to be running" "this sucks" "I wish the run was over". Generally that's a pretty bad run for me; I usually enjoy them. Then I finished and I was thinking, well if a bad run for me is 3.8 miles I'm really not doing so bad. There were days as little as a few weeks ago when I'd aspire to hit 3 or 4 miles. All in all I'm happy with where my training is. Oh and as you can see I'm adding a weather component (when I remember).

8/5/07

Again a bit of time off (for drinking at brickhouse on thursday) and Saturday I crossed trained at the gym. Longest run so far. Felt really good for the most part, except for a really bad cramp around 7.75miles.

8/2/07

After the two consecutive five milers I took a day off and also got some cross training in as well at the gym. This is my next run. An early morning run with Jenn.

7/30/07

Check out that pacing. Not too shabby.