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morning

- run 5.00km in 24:41
splits were 4:44, 4:56, 4:57, 4:43, 5:15. so ran first 4km in 19:22, then died a little and ran last km in 5:15. much less consistent pace than usual. chalk it up to body being out of whack in the morning.

- stretch

didn't get quite as early a start as i'd hoped, in part because my gf found a cockroach in her running pants and freaked the f out. delayed us by about 10 minutes. no hate, though: she saved me from a gigantic fucking spider earlier this year. to each their own irrational freak-outs. still, feels so good to have run already today. hopefully gf will continue to be a good morning workout buddy.

last night

- run 5.01km in 25:39
hamstrings quite sore, very slow first km and then right around 5:00 the rest of the way. gonna go to 5.5km this week.

- stretch

get them sunrise pics

morning

- warm up

- HIIT x 20 mins

- stretch

feels so good to work out in morning, especially as it gets cooler.

- run 5.05km in 26:40
road to track, two laps, road back. legs heavy. it's noticeably warmer at 6:30 than 8. right back around 5:15 pace, which seems to be standard on the road. some of that is caused by having to slow down to cross roads; also the first half of the course is slowly but steadily uphill.

- stretch

 

hashed things out with the gf on saturday afternoon. made sense why she was upset, and i'm glad we talked it out. one difference between her and my ex, who i was with for 5+ years, is that my ex was a lot more like me: super emotionally self-contained and protective. current gf wears a lot more on her sleeve, has a lot more anxieties and less of the kind of deep self-confidence that my ex and i both have. and that's good for me, because it forces me to be more sensitive and to give more. ex and i never, ever fought, and so i was always holding back a little. she challenged me in some ways but not emotionally. like i can remember two serious arguments we had between the first time we hooked up and the day we broke up.

one of the things i love about current gf is that she lets me know if something i'm doing makes her feel bad. sometimes i think she's not being fair, but then she listens if i want to justify myself.

anyway.

- run 5km in 24:38
nice. let myself pace naturally until the last lap when i picked it up just a little.

- walk 500m

- stretch

rate of perceived exertion, usually on a scale of 1-10. so, how hard is it for you, with 10 being true max effort, to run 13.5-14.5?