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yesterday morning

- run 30:27, 6.24 km
had to get it in after an early morning call. surprisingly quick (4:53 pace) despite this being the route with the biggest elevation gain/distance ratio, i guess the early start times really do slow me down.

a day of disappearing motivation. i got dressed to run, got out the door, it's a glorious day, and i just did not want to start. i paced around for a while trying to psych myself up and failed.

but sucked it up and did my target sets/reps.

 

early morning schedule shift, attempt infinity.

- run 34:12, 6.14 km
about as hilly as routes get around here, 108 feet/mile. that plus the early start = slow pace. feel fine about it.

- stretch
perfunctory.

went for a couple of longish walks today, one to get my haircut and one with the dog. slightly headachey, not sure why. no run.

did make what i think is my first-ever recording of myself playing and singing a song all the way through. gonna share it here because it's more of a progress update than any of my wheel-spinning runs have been. still don't quite have the precision or the timing down (although it didn't help that my hands are cold right now, this isn't the best i've played by any stretch) and obviously i am not much of a singer. but it feels good to make music.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzZmhQFMhHc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzZmhQFMhHc</a>

had insomnia last night so didn't get much sleep. must have gotten some, though, since at one point i woke up with a bona fide cry of terror.

in the dream i'd been having, i was on a bus with my brother and a few other people. we had driven into the middle of a clearing in some woods and were preparing to face an attack by some enemy. (i just saw the new bond movie and there's a scene kind of like this in it.) as they started coming out of the woods, my brother handed me a huge gun and i got out behind the bus door and started shooting. then four women dressed identically in light blue pioneer-style dresses came toward me. i tried to shoot at them but it had no effect, they just surrounded me and got closer and closer until one of them was right up against my neck. that's when i screamed, "ohhhh!" and woke up.

- run 11.02 km in 58:45
T+DI 147 even though it's only in the 70s because we've got july levels of humidity back. slow as a result, plus legs were still a little bit dead from tuesday.

- stretch

i beat a storm home by less than ten minutes. it's supposed to cool things off to fall conditions tomorrow. thank god.