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was in siem reap from saturday-monday, working and maxing out the time i had for tourism. no running. also got the shits yesterday, after a week-plus in the country with no issues. go figure. got back last night and tried to run but felt bad so stopped after five minutes.

trips like this were more fun when i was in my 20s. it's cool to be out here, i'm learning a lot and that's great. but i'm tired and i miss my wife and i want to be able to train consistently for something for once in my life. last year was an anomaly with the lack of work travel. this year is looking more typical: strong likelihood that i'll have to come back out to cambodia in a couple of months. kyrgyzstan and bangladesh are possibilities for later in the year, maybe sri lanka, maybe vietnam. starting to think again what it'd look like to change careers.

wednesday

- treadmill tempo
-- warm up
-- 5 x (2 mins @ 3:52, 1 min @ 6:00)
-- cool down

today

- run ~4.5 miles
got home yesterday afternoon after 28 hours in transit. woof. watch didn't charge overnight so it was dead, so just an estimate based on knowing the route. was probably a little more than 4.5.

- run 39:42, 6.39 km
freaking beautiful outside today. weird for late february.

- "easy" run 39:14, 7.67 km; km 3 and 5 @ ~10 mile pace (4:22, 4:21)

- run 45:22, 7.32 km

- long run 1:34:13, 17.00 km; 5 individual kms at 4:23, 4:16, 4:16, 4:28, 4:15
gonna start using the weekly long run to surge to race pace throughout. started out sore and legs were cooked by the fourth surge, as you can see from the time. rested a little longer before the last one and pushed a bit harder. also it was all downhill.

saturday

- climb mt. washington, ~8.5 miles round-trip with 4000+ feet of gain. we got "good conditions," once we were above the treeline winds were 40-50 mph (65-80 kph) and gusting to 70 mph (112 kph), air temp in the low-to-mid 20s (~-4 c) and windchill low single digits fahrenheit (~-16 c). very fun, but sprained my toe on the upper part of the descent, when we were still in crampons. it didn't start hurting badly until the next morning but it's still bothering me a little now on tuesday morning. obviously haven't run since, hopefully will be back in shape to do so by tomorrow.