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SNOW IS STARTING TO ACCUMULATE. i am surprised by how excited this makes me. i've been living in places that don't get snow for the last four years, guess i missed it more than i knew.

edit: yeah it is absolutely nasty outside. no run.

edit 2: got full comments on my dissertation today from my adviser. won't even have to ask him about publishing it, he suggested it himself and gave some thoughts about how to change it to be publishable. sweet.

- run

got to the end of the block and my body was just yelling "NOOOO," so i turned around and came home. had a headache all day and thought it had gone down enough to run but apparently not.

- run 1:06:20, 13.52 km
felt amazing. cold (35/2 celsius) but no wind to speak of, so long sleeve shirt plus my running shell was plenty of warmth. new route, liked it, will repeat. 

- stretch

i missed two runs this week and still totaled 42.2 km, and i feel super ready for a long and slow run tomorrow.

- run 58:24, 12.03 km
bit quick but that's okay.

- stretch

went to doc today about my ear pain. she said it's not infected, but that i should use a different kind of ear drops than the ones i've been using to deal with wax buildup. apparently that stuff can irritate. anyway not all that satisfying. i mention it only because they took my blood pressure and it was 110/77, which is the lowest it's ever been since i was at least 19. 

- run 58:24, 12.03 km
bit quick but that's okay.

- stretch

went to doc today about my ear pain. she said it's not infected, but that i should use a different kind of ear drops than the ones i've been using to deal with wax buildup. apparently that stuff can irritate. anyway not all that satisfying. i mention it only because they took my blood pressure and it was 110/77, which is the lowest it's ever been since i was at least 19. 

nice and..

that run life BP ?? lool. nice!

merry christmas, y'all. took the last two days off to help my mom with some stuff and do many family zooms. did go for a shortish hike (1 hour or so) with my parents yesterday, which was nice.

it's 24/-5 here right now and high today is 36/2. we'll see about running later, might just be too cold.

EDIT: T+DI is 36 so at least i can't complain about humidity 

suddenly i want to subscribe to kneesovertoesguy and get to dunking again. bad timing because covid means difficult to get to the gym consistently even if i had a membership. really what it means is i should resolve to double down on running in 2021 and get to sub-19 while running is the main thing i can do.

ATG does have some no-equipment programs it looks like. folks on here who are devoted to ATG: thoughts on those? or signing up in general if i'm not gonna immediately go back into training for strength/jumping?

EDIT: also, especially because i'm shifting away from programmed workouts and keeping most runs easy to very easy, i'm gonna stop programming rest days. burnout is not a worry right now.

- run 59:48, 12.35 km
bit colder, mid-40s. wore t-shirt and gloves, worked fine. my right hand, for some reason, gets colder than my left. slight negative split, as i turned around exactly at 30:00. allowed breathing to shorten to three steps each per in breath and out breath on the hill that's right before the final km home, just for a few hundreds meters, so as not to slow down. good to get practice maintaining pace uphill.

- stretch