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- run 1:01:19, 13.04 km
same route as tuesday but in reverse and much faster (4:42/km. guess i was extra motivated because it was 29/-2 degrees with 20mph/32kph winds, lol.

- stretch

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 1:09:38, 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

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).

yesterday

- run 9.60 km in 45:36
didn't want to overdo it after the week-plus layoff. soleuses are apparently the first things to decondition. breathing a little harder than i should have. just ran without thinking. felt good to stretch my legs though. and no ITB tightness this time, that was weird before.

- stretch

miniature goldendoodle. but "miniature" is relative, i think she's gonna be 40 pounds.

no run last night. thought about going this morning after an early (6:15) call with a colleague in indonesia but it is cold and windy and i wussed out. will knock off work early and at least get out in the sun this afternoon.

did write two songs last night, which was kind of a surprise. neither is finished or very good, but they both just kind of came right out. one about the plane crash in afghanistan in 2010 that i was almost on (i'd flown on the same plane, with the same crew, through similar conditions less than a day before it went down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamir_Airways_Flight_112) and one about the bessemer unionization effort.