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that is weird, man! have you seen a doctor? you were quite strong back in the day, could be all kinds of physiological reasons for a long-term limitation like that. anemia, low testosterone, maybe hypothyroidism?

5th wedding anniversary today!

 

back in "fresh," i think i need to stop checking that chart because it's giving me anxiety, lol 

- run 1:07:22, 12.90 km
30 degrees colder than yesterday and raining. legs felt good, calves less tight than they have in days.

- run/walk 18:08, 2.10 km
with my mom, who is trying to get back into running at age 70! she signed up for a 5k in late may. proud of her.

- MP intervals
-- warm up
-- 2 x [3 km @ ~marathon effort, 1 km jog]
-- cool down
hot today, T+DI 140. ran by feel. first set averaged 4:34, second 4:29. Rx was a 13 km progression run but (1) i've never gotten the hang of those and (2) couldn't be bothered to drive down to the flat course.

intervals.icu fitness graph has me dipping into "fresh," which i was afraid of, but i'll just stick to the plan and hopefully be sharp next sunday.

weather for race day looks like it'll be in the low 50s/~11 and partly cloudy. that's on the warm side of what i've been hoping for but could be worse. fingers crossed it's at least that good!

- run x
got dressed and out the door this morning but turned around at the end of the block. haven't had this feeling in a while where it just seems like my body is actively fighting my brain's desire to run. decided to listen to body this morning. not sure where that comes from: sleep has been okay and training load hasn't been especially high, i've been firmly in the gray on intervals.icu for a while now. i may try to run later if i feel a bit peppier, or may just take the full extra day off. worried that the rest will slip me toward "peaking" shape too soon but hopefully tomorrow's workout will balance things back out.

ETA: wife pointed out that i might be a bit dehydrated. that's actually plausible.

i've started having marathon anxiety dreams. over the weekend there was one where i got the start line feeling good and ready and then realized that i had forgotten all my gels. and then the marathon turned out to be most running through apartment buildings, up and down stairs and jumping across alleyways from building to building, like in an action movie. last night i had one where the course was a double out-and-back but the first part was inside my friend walker's house in LA, and at some point i just started only running within the house. i lost track of how far i'd gone and panicked when i realized i'd been running the course wrong. and then he told me that there was a survey for participants to fill out, so i took a break to fill it out before realizing that i was losing even more time and didn't have to do it until after the race.

nerves, much?

also, it occurs to me for the first time that labyrinths or mazes (e.g., running through houses or apartment buildings, from room to room, while not being sure how to go or what will be around the next corner) have long been a motif in my dreams. wonder what that's about.