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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

felt weird yesterday, no run. still felt off through the early afternoon but well enough by the end of work to drag myself out the door. this week is going to end up turning into a little deload, which is fine after three straight >50 weeks. plan will be to shoot closer to 60 km/5 hours of total running starting next week.

- run 47:48, 10.08 km
extra day of rest plus perfect conditions (upper 40s and minimal wind) meant cruising speed was a little quick.

- stretch