Week ending 26JUN2022

 Monday AM - 4 miles around practice.  Getting hot early these days.  

Afternoon - 2.75 on the ditch with JZ and then I did 8 x 300 on the MS track.  It was hot and I had a lot of excuses but I figured that I need to do these because I don't want to do these since they suck but when I don't do them it just makes the suck suck some more.

Tuesday AM - Sore.  I guess the combination of squats yesterday - which I REALLY SUCK at and the workout put me here.  So that is good.  Embrace the suck.  But I did know I needed to go easy.  It was better at the end than the beginning.  6.1 miles around practice.  

Afternoon - ditch.  Moving well.  3.8 miles.

Wednesday AM - tired.  6.3 miles with GW.  Over to practice and then back.  Ditch

Afternoon ... 136 Ditch loop.  3.3 miles.  Was tired but it was cloudy out so I had no excuses.  

Thursday afternoon - short one.  3.6 with practice.

Afternoon - over on Ridgeview on the concrete hill climbing up into the 'hood by the gazebo.  8 x 1 minute hills.  5 miles.

From last weekend.

Friday - practice over at the Aquarius Trailhead.  6 x 30" hills in the middle.  8.6 miles all today (added on a bit on the end because I didn't want to double up today).

Saturday AM - Green  Mountain.  Up the front and down the back.  I am really really out of shape for this sort of thing and almost every step up from Gregory was a walk.  Yes, a walk with intention but still a walk.  Worse was the down ... I just am not bomb proof yet to take the down with anything but great caution.  6.6. miles.

Sunday afternoon - sore from the run yesterday.  7.2 miles - just to get me to 60.  A bit tired but that was probably from the gig at Luki last night.

A good week for training.  It was revealing as to where I am at but I pushed a bit too.  

Week ending 19JUN2022

Monday AM - jumped in with the summer practice kiddos.  I went super easy as the gracilas is aggravated so I took to the run as a "blood flow" recovery sort of thing.  4.2 miles.  It is still a bit angry but manageable.  

Afternoon - 4 miles out and back on the ditch

Tuesday AM - practice, there and back, 6 miles.  Felt awful

PM - 3.3 miles on the 136-Ditch loop.  Better

Wednesday afternoon.  Full work day.  Missed practice in the AM (calls starting at 6).  Got out in the afternoon before heading to band.  5 miles on the Lake Link Ditch loop and moved all right.  It was hot so it was easy to get sweating and breathing hard.  Evening band practice

Thursday - 5.1 in the AM at practice and another 4 in the afternoon.

Friday - 6.1 with GW at practice.  Thought I'd get out in the afternoon but I basically fell asleep at the desk after a long day.  I guess picking up the adult offspring at 1AM at the airport caught up to me.  

Headed over to the Rails Mic in the evening.  Was pretty unprepared so I did some regulars.  Not a great, but not a bad performance.  Went to the yell voice a bit too soon but I tend to do that on these.  

Found myself getting irritated at a few guys in the later part of evening who took 20 minutes to set up their gear and kit, then play six songs and then break down into another 2 for an acoustic side gig.  Not cool.  It is not your concert man and it was just keeping the last act of the night there an extra hour.  Know the game.  

Saturday AM - 12.1 miles.  Figured to get a bit of a bigger run since I have been being a wimp on that.  Headed out on Super Ditch and up the hill towards 128 and back.  Did ok since the clouds cut most of the sun.  Definitely the longest run I have had in a bit.  Moved okay towards the end too.  

Sunday - headed down to Sharpetail Ridge and ran with my partner for Fairplay - Alice.  6 miles.  It was our first date so we were still figuring each other out.

Did a gig at the Swim and Tennis club for most of the rest of the day.  

56 on the week.  A little better than the last few weeks but still getting over the discipline hump.

Week ending 12JUN2022

Monroe NC week ... Monday AM ... slow to rise.  Headed to the ballpark loop, which I learned is called the Starlite loop as the area used to be the home of the Starlite Speedway.  Three miles.  

Evening.  Slow to get out.  Hmm.  I'm long overdue to actually do some stuff that puts me out of my comfort zone.  Did the loop at what I guess felt like 3k effort and then did 10 by a hill on it (may 2% grade) which was about 130 yards.  Not stellar but moving a lot faster than I have as of late.  4.5 miles.  Tired from the day, time zone change, but happy I got something done and made it hurt a bit. 

Tuesday AM - 3 miles in the park.  Not quite just loops

Evening - got out around 7PM, after the work day and before a call with APAC.  Humid for sure.  As I got back after my five a co-worker saw me coming into the hotel, made a disgusted face and said "oh my gawd, were you running on purpose?!"  I said I had been chased but the better answer would have been I was doing it accidentally.  Or maybe without purpose. 5 miles.

Runs have been tough lately.  My legs always feel shitty.  I am not sure if this is age, 100k of miles on them, poor diet, a vitamin deficiency, just being out of shape, tired from work, a lack of muscular something or other, some bs post COVID (which I never tested positive for but my family is convinced I had in January of 2020), just being a wimp, drinking too much, dehydration, loss of testo, high blood pressure, or just some other list of excuses.  Add humidity and an uninspiring setting, and it takes me a bit of going through the motions to  ... well, go through the motions.  I know this sounds like belly aching.  It is.  

Wednesday evening.  Did the same thing as Monday night, but just not as quick.  Was tired and it looked like I had gone for a swim when I was done.  So I did at the hotel pool when done.  5.5 miles.  

Thursday night - dumb sorta hot and humid but the clouds cut the sun for a tad.  5 miles right after the office and before meeting the team for the evening.  Ended up with a fair pace.  A ball player who was vaping looked over me and said I needed to slow down (it was not fast).

Friday AM - knowing I had travel later in the day I made myself get out for four in the AM, recognizing that gave me 30 on the week and thinking I could get to 50 with efforts back home over the weekend.  

Saturday AM - hot early but still nicer than Monroe ... back in the CO.  5.7 miles on the Lake Link Ditch loop.

Saturday PM - still 95 at 7PM but whatever.  4.5 on the ditch.  Some water flowing in there finally. 

Sunday AM - 6.1 with Greg.  Thought I'd get out in the evening but at the tail of the AM session the gracilas decided to bark unexpectedly.  WTF.  I could have gimped it on the ditch in the evening post a call with China but I decided it would just be a potentially dumb decision.  

Rough week, but ... well, onward.  I ain't done yet.  

Week ending 05JUN2022

Monday afternoon - 9.1 miles.  Windy.  Tired, but moved okay.  Did that thing where I reconciled getting over 30 in the last three days and feeling good about it ... until I recalled I have to do that in a day with about 100x more vertical than I have got recently.

Tuesday afternoon - 7.1 miles with about half with GW.  Raining.  Strava says this run bumped through 1100 miles on the year.  

I let my courage down
I stayed up all night
I sat upon the springs, and I chased away the dreams
That I was wrong and they were right

Screw me - Wednesday - right knee had some sort of weird ball ache in on the inside.  Decided to not risk idiocy and took the bench.  Irritated at the inconsistency of being able to put together a solid chunk.  

I dream in color
I live in black and white
Still I have those days where I'm stumblin through the grays where I drink for boredom and spite. 

Thursday afternoon - sun is back out.  8.3 miles around Lac Amora.  

I was looking for clues inside my déjà vus,
But I found I'm lost again
I found I've lost again
No I never thought I'd go this crazy
No I never thought I'd go this crazy
No I never thought, that I'd go this crazy

Friday afternoon - 9 miles around Ridgeview and out to 144 and back on the ditch.  Started a new part of Cliftons.   

So will I suffer
Or will I be alright
I look up into the stars,
nd I know mercy

Saturday AM - 7 miles, mostly with GW on the Kings Loop.  This was one of those runs where I was asking "WTF is wrong with me?"  I was gassed regardless of how easy the pace.  Breathing hard, sweating, and just dead legs.  One of those where I wonder how'd I RT on PPM.  

Afternoon - 3.6 on the ditch.  

Sunday - travel to NC.  Thought I'd get up early in CO and get a few before heading to the airport but I slept lousy and tried to get some of that back in the morning window.

Regretted that a bit when I got to Monroe.  Not a lot of options.  Roads with tight shoulders and traffic.  And hot enough with the humidity to make me think about it.  But on the bright side I found a ball park area I can do loops around probably safely.  6 miles.  

Firmly averaging 50 miles a week.  Not great.  Not bad, just not enough I think to drive a level of success.