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welp, missed yesterday because i procrastinated until it was 40 degrees and raining so hard that the power was flickering in my house. off to a great start!

today better.

- tempo/race pace
-- warm up x 2 km
-- run x 5 km @ 4:40 (4:38, 4:38, 4:36, 4:40, 4:38)
-- cool down

because i have 4+ months and have done essentially no work above easy pace in many moons, plan is to start conservatively. this translates to about a 1:38-1:39 half marathon; i'll need to run at 4:16 pace to get under 1:30. so i'll drop 0:05/km every few weeks, and also build from 5 km to 7 km for the meat of these runs.

- run 37:15, 7.48 km
chilly, upper 40s. first time wearing tights this season.

well, it wasn't really holiday, we both worked every day. but yeah for a traveling week 4 runs is pretty good!

tuesday

- run 25:38, 5.01 km

thursday

- run 44:46, 8.00 km

saturday

- run 45:22, 7.92 km

bit late but just make sure you don't end the marathon with the same result as the most famous greek marathoner 

- run 38:25, 8.01 km
whoa, even faster than yesterday, 4:48. slight cheat, though, as i had a few minutes' break in the middle to buy my gf a birthday present (a pair of running gloves/mittens, which she has been talking about wanting). not my favorite route but not as bad as running downtown, and killed two birds with one stone so that's always good.

still, feeling so good rn. flying to amsterdam tomorrow for the week.

yesterday i went to a memorial service for a guy i grew up with, who died over the summer from colon cancer. he was 33, same age as my surviving brother. we weren't close -- my mom and his mom are good friends, which is most of why i went -- but it was surprisingly emotional for me, i cried pretty much throughout and felt kind of drained afterward. they had a bluegrass band playing as people sat down and before the service got underway, they led the whole crowd (~200-250 people) in "will the circle be unbroken," and i was done. i'm sure part of it is that i'm still grieving my own brother, but also i don't think there is anything more moving than people being kind to each other. and noah, the guy who died, was an exceptionally kind and generous person, so the whole spirit of the thing just got to me. really glad i could be there. but i did not have a run in me afterward.

did it today instead.

- run 1:14:50, 12.90 km
gf wanted to head downtown so this was very stop-and-start (fully eight minutes of waiting at lights, per my watch). not my favorite way to go but it's all good, especially for a run where the point is mostly to be on your feet for a long time.