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spectacular life PR: i'm engaged! 

damn, making me want to jump again! after this half marathon, maybe...

- tempo
-- warm up x 2 km
-- run x 5 km @ 4:37 [4:39, 4:51, 4:35, 4:33, 4:27]
-- cool down x 1.86 km

EDIT: signed up to do a 5k race on 17 december, with my mom. she did her first 5k last weekend (run/walking with a friend of hers who is not in great shape) but she's gotten it in her head to do another triathlon so she's starting to run again and wants to race to give herself little motivators. very cool. i think i'll just be aiming for 20:xx, given how my last 5k went. will not taper or anything, treat it as a training run.

- run 46:02, 7.58 km
very relaxed.

- speed work
-- warm up
-- 800m x [3:03, 3:01], 1:30 walking rest
-- cool down

again starting off conservatively. these are meant to be RPE 8-9 on the plan i'm following but i'll work up to that. still, was huffing and puffing a bit at the end of the second one. long way to go, long way to go.

also, meant to run these on the track at the high school that's about a kilometer from my place but there was a JV football game in full swing, with a big crowd. duly noted: no track work on saturday mid-afternoons until the winter.

i mean i just started so let's see how realistic it is to get there in four months. but the running time predictors give 1:30 as roughly equivalent to 19:30 5k, which is another reachable target (i ran 19:42 a couple years ago, after all) and like a 6:17/mile pace.

i love LISS, there's a reason that it's basically taken over my training for the last three years or more. it's relaxing and centering and recently it's become a nice activity to do with my girlfriend. i don't bring my phone or wear headphones and so it's basically the only part of my day where i can't be interrupted by a device. i should spend more of my day like that, but that's a side point. but running gives me time to either ruminate and think over a problem i'm dealing with or to just settle into comfortable mindfulness. it's great.

saturday

- run 51:31, 9.8 km
bit slow, it was strangely warm.

leaning toward signing up for the rock 'n' roll half marathon next march. i need a target and something for me to build a training plan around that isn't just "run when you feel like it and sometimes when you don't." found one that's 12 weeks long and includes tempo and speed work, as well as one day a week of strength. seems like building off of that would be a good place to start, obviously extending it some weeks as march is farther out.

goal would be 1:30 which is about 4:16 pace. i'm obviously not near that level of fitness now, but i guess that's the point!