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- run 40:07, 8.02 km
added a little bulb to the end of my favorite loop and it was exactly the right length to get to 8km. nice.

wednesday

- tempo
-- warm up x 2 km
-- 5km @ 4:31 [4:36, 4:36, 4:30, 4:30, 4:27]
-- cool down

forgot to start the run with the programmed workout, so i didn't have the pace guidance. by the time i noticed it was too late to start over so i just decided to do it by feel. a bit slower than i planned, but negative splits even with the uphill finish. not mad.

today

- run 16:32, 3.34 km
just to stretch legs and do *something*. 

hurray books! a few i've read recently and enjoyed:

1. football in sun and shadow, by eduardo galeano
2. the story of my teeth, by valeria luiselli
3. beyond a boundary, by c.l.r. james
4. my name is red, by orhan pamuk (second time, it's so great)
5. having and being had, by eula biss
6. gangsters of capitalism, by jonathan katz
7. red harvest, by dashiell hammett
8. dune, by frank herbert
9. free: a child and a country at the end of history, by lea ypi
10. saturday night, by susan orlean

sunday

- run 1:18:34, 13.14 km

today is the fifth anniversary of my brother's death, by suicide. he was homeless off and on for a few years, so my parents are going to join the encampment outreach i've been doing every friday for the past 1.5 years or so, as part of commemorating him. i miss him, a feeling that's gotten more acute in recent months. i'm not sure why. but i'm feeling it today.

- run 39:22, 7.58 km
legs still a little stiff/sluggish. left ankle was there right at the beginning but milder than yesterday and it went away.

well, so much for getting busy. woke up this morning with the worst hangover in recent memory. was feeling okay enough by late afternoon to drag myself out the door but didn't achieve much, except the in the sense that something>>>nothing.

- run 20:43, 3.92 km
felt like shit

- run 54:47, 9.45 km
w/gf, quite slow as she was low on energy.