Weekly Mileage: 36
Oct/20/2008
Easy 10 down to the beach and back. 10 miles still kinda feels like a shock to my legs, but its survivable.
Oct/21/2008
Ran Bellagio today. Its an 8 mile run that goes up a big hill in bel aire and then follows the perimeter of UCLA with a mile bonus loop in the middle. Felt tight at first, but after the big hill the kinks were worked out and I could get moving again. Feels good to be training again.
Oct/22/2008
Did my simple UCLA plus loop. A hilly 5 around campus. I was gonna supplement it with a few striders around the track until I got kicked off.... apparently the track is closed from 1 to 6... D. I schools blow
Oct/23/2008
A different hilly run through Bel Aire. Was rather dehydrated.
Oct/24/2008
Just the short four mile loop around campus. Wanted my legs to have feel good again. Jogged chill the whole time.
10.21.2008
New Chapters
Total Week Mileage
10/21/08: The story of my summer was a break. A total break from running. I decided that after 8 years of no significant breaks (greater than a week or two, if that) it was time to part ways with running and see if we naturally found our way back together.
Looking for a relief from high gas prices and knowing that I would get fat without some consistent athletic outlet I decided that these two problems could be solved by cycling to work. The nearly 20 mile (one-way) venture took a lot out of me, and I saw myself eating more than I ever did when I was running. It was also very taxing energetically in a way that running had never challenged me. I lasted several weeks doing this between 3 and 5 days a week. But eventually I couldn't take it much more and knew it was time for a change.
Back to Running.
A few days before the start of preseason '08 I went on my first run in nearly two months. It hurt. I ran the next day and it still hurt. I ran again on wednesday with the team on the traditional Hungtinon run and it hurt. I hadn't hurt like this since I first started running. I took a few days off, maybe ran once more. On monday I ventured to do the long labor day run with the team which this year had managed to find its way to the JPL trails. It felt great, I ran far, fast and it didn't hurt... at first. Then I remembered that I had worn my nike 3.0's and it started hurting, a lot.
Over the following several weeks I ran occaisionally doing anywhere between 20 and 30 miles per week. some short tempos, some long ones, some easy days.
Now I'm ready to train again.
10/21/08: The story of my summer was a break. A total break from running. I decided that after 8 years of no significant breaks (greater than a week or two, if that) it was time to part ways with running and see if we naturally found our way back together.
Looking for a relief from high gas prices and knowing that I would get fat without some consistent athletic outlet I decided that these two problems could be solved by cycling to work. The nearly 20 mile (one-way) venture took a lot out of me, and I saw myself eating more than I ever did when I was running. It was also very taxing energetically in a way that running had never challenged me. I lasted several weeks doing this between 3 and 5 days a week. But eventually I couldn't take it much more and knew it was time for a change.
Back to Running.
A few days before the start of preseason '08 I went on my first run in nearly two months. It hurt. I ran the next day and it still hurt. I ran again on wednesday with the team on the traditional Hungtinon run and it hurt. I hadn't hurt like this since I first started running. I took a few days off, maybe ran once more. On monday I ventured to do the long labor day run with the team which this year had managed to find its way to the JPL trails. It felt great, I ran far, fast and it didn't hurt... at first. Then I remembered that I had worn my nike 3.0's and it started hurting, a lot.
Over the following several weeks I ran occaisionally doing anywhere between 20 and 30 miles per week. some short tempos, some long ones, some easy days.
Now I'm ready to train again.
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