5th week

First race this week.  Work back into to more mileage/time.  Shoot for 300 this week.

Total Time: 344 minutes

Friday, 8/31: 70 minutes?.  Ran through Ballona creek bike path up the side of a steep cement embankment (dangerously) to get out near baldwin overlook and ran hard to the top.  Easy jog down and through culver city.  Finished hard up Robertson, felt strong going near 6:00 pace? for the last mile.

Thursday, 8/30: 37 minutes.  Right calf felt oddly tight this morning.  Easy jog,

Wednesday, 8/29: 55 minutes.  Legs felt fine today running through Beverlywood hills and West LA park, unfortunately today was the return of the Matt-has-to-shit-while-he-runs runs.  Last ten minutes were hell.

Tuesday, 8/28: 61 minutes. Felt painful, but not excruciating.  Side really hurt for the last 10 minutes and slowed down a lot.

Monday, 8/27: 56 minutes.  Nice late afternoon run.  Right quad still a little tight.  Legs lethargic tonight.

Sunday, 8/26: 35 minutes.  Felt a little tight and my left foot hurt from walking around in sandals earlier.  Right quad was a little tight too.


Saturday, 8/25: 5k race this morning with rocket racing productions along Santa Monica beach path. Ran alone, but got a good workout with negative (even at worst) splits.  I was 9:15 at the turn around.  Finished in 18:06 feeling a little out of energy, but not completely exhausted.  Maybe I'll take another slow easy evening run.

Week 4

Weeks Goals: Chill out and stay health after a slightly painful would-be run on Friday morning. First 5k in a long time is on Saturday.

Total Time: 180

Friday, 8/24: Super easy shake down.  20 minutes

Thursday, 8/23: Easy run, went a little faster than I planned at times, but felt strong.  25 minutes

Wednesday, 8/22: Easy run, no pain.  30 minutes

Tuesday 8/21: Easy run, felt good.  Was still a little buzzed.  25 minutes

Monday 8/20: Tested the waters a little more today, went faster than I wanted to at times.  My left food felt a little numb?  I'm not really sure what was going on there, but at least my right foot didn't hurt at all. 40 minutes

Sunday 8/19: Shorter run after we bombed the apartment today.  Felt good just to move the legs in the cold air. 15 minutes

Saturday 8/18: Short run, didn't test anything. 25 minutes

Week 3

Total Time: 220 minutes

Friday 8/17: 10 minutes.  Got up early to run.  Felt like crap and my foot started hurting a lot.  Walked home.  Will take it easy the next few days

Thursday 8/16: 45 minutes.  Medium, felt fine

Wednesday 8/15: 25 minutes.  Just easy

Tuesday 8/14: 45 minutes. Starter slowly, finished quickly.  Felt pretty good

Monday 8/13: 30 minutes.  Putted around

Sunday 8/12: 45 minutes. Got home and sat no the couch for 2 hours watching the marathon.  Ran a solid 45 minutes afterwards.  felt great

Saturday 8/11: 20 minutes.  In Vegas.  Ran on a tread mill.  I hate tread mills.

Week 2

Goal: just keep running for now, maybe try to average about 40 or so minutes

Total time: 270 minutes

Friday 8/10; 30 minutes

Thursday 8/9: 25 minutes.  Felt sore and tight.  Cantered trotted around for a bit.

Wednesday 8/8: 45 minutes.  Stayed up late-ish last night to watch the 1500m final (thank you NBC for showing Manzano running down the home stretch in the commercial before the race) so I didn't run in the morning. After getting home from lab I went out for a harder run.  Felt good to run in the evening with a breeze.  Wasn't forcing it too much, my knees didn't hurt at all today (they have hurt a little here and there over the past few days

Tuesday 8/7: 35 minutes.  Woke up and went for another trot today.  Didn't really feel like going faster but did go a slight bit longer than I initially felt like.  I really should start wearing Mark's watch so that I can time myself better. I also keep meaning to sign up for a race with these guys but keep putting it off.

Monday 8/6: 45 minutes.  Slow to wake up.  Trotted through first mile or so.  Not too much faster the rest of the way.

Sunday 8/5: 65 minutes.  Ran up to Cheviot hills park slowly, did two laps at a steadily increasing pace and jogged home along pico.

Saturday 8/4: 25 minutes