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- run 14.1 km in 1:17:52
long and slow. puts me right at 50km for the last seven days.

- stretch

- run 7.01 km in 36:45
first 3km w/gf, hence the slightly slow overall pace (5:15). final three km were run in 4:30, 4:55, and 4:45 to make up for it a bit. kept it short to keep overall weekly increase modest: total for last seven days is 45.9 km, which i'm pleased with. to 50 next week.

- stretch

- run 12.66 km in 1:08:06
middle ~5.5 km with joe, who i can now officially verify is a real person. what's up joe! let's do it again.

- stretch

gukl, when you coming down?

dry fasting sounds like ramadan/ramzan fasting when it happens during the summer (as right now). most of my colleagues in pakistan fasted, which meant no food and water between daybreak and sunset. that is, a "dry" fast for 17-18+ hours. plenty don't lose any weight, though!

- run 10.01 km in 50:23

- stretch

40.2 km over past seven days. working back up to 50 km/week. visited some gyms today, found the one i'll join (anytime fitness stratford east). once i've settled into an apartment and figured out my school routine, plan is to re-introduce gym work in anticipation of a winter focused a bit more on strenf/power and a bit less on cardio, before shifting back in the spring when the weather and light suck less. hopefully with a bit more muscle and a bit more speed. also probably will get a bike and go to/from school that way at least some days. the commute is about 80-90 minutes round trip. not sure how that'll affect training. i've been running to the exclusion of nearly anything else for a long time now. might not hurt to mix things up for a few months. not abandon running altogether, of course, just redirect a bit of energy.

cool story bro: a friend of my mom's from graduate school is one of the world's leading experts on ants. this lady: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_M._Gordon

wednesday

- run 11.47km in 59:02
ran to and then around in victoria park. beautiful, got turned around a few times, went a bit farther than i intended.

- stretch

thursday

- walk a lot
spent most of the day wandering around london while gf studied. wouldn't ordinarily log but i walked at least 12-13 km over the course of the day, which is much above normal. the last time i walked that much and then tried to run a normal amount afterward i hurt my shin. hence no run yesterday on top of the walking.