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yesterday

- run 9.60 km in 45:36
didn't want to overdo it after the week-plus layoff. soleuses are apparently the first things to decondition. breathing a little harder than i should have. just ran without thinking. felt good to stretch my legs though. and no ITB tightness this time, that was weird before.

- stretch

parents got a new dog on friday. her name is happy (for my mom's great aunt, and also short for happy trails). she is a good girl. serious ice storm on friday/saturday = no runs since thursday. like i said the other day, gonna be catch as catch can for a while.

- run 1:1x, 15.x km
not sure exact duration or distance because my watch ran out of batteries about a mile from home. whoops. pace was right at 5:01 the last time i checked (at 14 km).

- run 1:09:38, 13.53 km
ITBs still quite stiff. weird. pretty slow (5:09 average pace), especially on the uphills on the way back. focused on easy breathing.

- stretch

- run 59:23, 12.38 km
ITBs verrrry stiff for the first couple km, never quite loosened up all the way.

- stretch

weird day weather-wise: it snowed hard this morning and by 1 PM all the snow had melted. gonna be catch-as-catch-can with running weather the next week or two. at least one day of straight ice in the forecast, lots of wintry mix.

sounds like a great plan.

u ok?

yo thanks for checking vag! i'm ok, we had a snowstorm last weekend and then it was alternately icy and slushy for a few days, and then i had a multi-day headache. that plus new job = no running = no journaling. feb not off to as great a start as jan was, to say the least.

felt better today, although i still needed a short nap in the afternoon. was thinking about dry needling today for the first time in a while. wonder if that'd help with these headaches. i do think there's an element of sublimated stress to them, and there's also the fact that i'm suddenly spending a lot more time sitting in front of a screen.

- run 1:48:41, 20.00 km
hadn't run since last week so had a hard time slowing down. averaged 5:26, a little too fast for a run of this length. whatever. felt amazing. mid-50s when i left the house and mid-40s and windy when i got back so my hands were cold as shit by the time i got home.

- stretch

run 1:04:50, 12.99 km
lol, 0.01 shy of a nice round 13. 34 degrees but i was overdressed in a hoodie and my high-vis running jacket plus gloves. calves a little tight. also my left knee started pulling in the way it does when i sprint, right in the final km. not sure what that was about. to monitor.

- stretch

- run 1:58, 20.6 km
below freezing when i left the house but did okay. no bike-along today so i was able to keep it pretty slow. very happy that i made myself go instead of using the temperature as an excuse.

- stretch