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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.

 

went to the gym for the first time in at least 18 months. i'm losing the big mo for running, wanted to switch it up a little. maybe try to get a bit stronger again before diving back into an actual running goal. kept it simple and light. if i decide to stick with this i think i'll just do starting strength minus the power cleans.

- warm up

- squat 185 x 5,5
legs cramping a little in the rest period and on the second set (!!!)

- bench 135 x 3,5
position wrong on the first set

- DL 205 x 5

- pull up x 5,5

- kroc row 55 x 20R, 20L

- stretch

gonna be sore tomorrow. i did not push at all but that's prettttty weak.

weighed myself after the workout: 165 pounds. measured waist (31) and thigh (23) when i got home. thigh is 2" smaller than peak in my mid-20s. wow. i'm nearly 20 pounds lighter now than i was then, so that makes sense.

waist measurement confirms that my paranoia/budding dysmorphia about love handles is mostly in my head. that's only 0.5" more than the lowest i've ever measured and i didn't go out of my way to get the absolute minimum measurement. OTOH, i think i'm about 10 pounds lighter than i was the last time i took measurements. maybe 8.

ETA: out of curiosity, i went and looked up the old greek proportions calculator. it's not there anymore, but i found a different one on bodybuilding.com that says my waist and thighs are exactly right and my hips are 2" too big. fuck that, i like having big thighs and a big butt. my calves are exactly right and my neck is only about 0.5" too skinny. but also my chest is 3" too skinny and so are my biceps. perhaps it's time to finally go full beach. hell, even adarq is doing physique work now.

would be cool to put on a few lean pounds, get back up close to 2x bw squat, finally hit 1.5x bw bench, and DL 400.

starting strength-ish but with jumps instead of power cleans and some dedicated beach work (arms and shoulders). could be fun. could be pretty fun...

wait how did you run a 4:26 1500 but only clock a 4:14 1k? i must be reading something wrong.