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Pisgah repeats

March 26, 2014 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 50s, overcast --> rain/wind

Comments:
Another full, busy and caffeine-free day. The plan was to get more vert this week by going to Pisgah. Worked 'til nearly 4, then went home and dragged serious ass - just felt TIRED. Not sure about allergies, or what, but I was not motivated to go. Legs felt OK, but ugh. Just tired.

Finally got to Pisgah and one foot in front of the other by 5ish. Ran about 1.5 mi flat-ish warm-up, then x5 50m strides, then went after it.

The HR was pretty spikey again today: 21s for the ascents, but I was VERY disciplined about keeping it in the low 130s. The downs? I let them go a little bit. I didn't push any flats, but the steep downs were rapid, and my HR pushed 15x during these spurts. But, on both descents, I broke 9mi on this 1.3 mi descent.

Rather than do a third - which would've been in a stiff wind and hard rain at the top - I did an easy mile-ish cooldown jog.

8.5 miles or so. Felt OK.

Weird evening: after the run, I went to the grocery store....to get condoms. Ugh. Serz. I hate them so much, but - I feel like if I buy them, I might be more motivated to *be in a position* to maybe use one! :-p

After leaving, I realized I was close to Nordstrom's rack. Though in wet running clothes and muddied legs, I stopped. I changed into some dry stuff, but still entered in compression shorts and tech shirts.

Wound up buying like $350 worth of shit! Oh, FUCK! Got a super nice gray sport coat (love these coats), which was $190, then several other items I really liked. SERZ retail therapy!

Thought about going to Max's, but didn't. I spent quite a bit of time cleaning my apartment, with the thought of having it presentable should a woman enter it. Again, "prepare as IF it WILL happen"...

To BE the man you have to ACT like him...

Wore the '11 Mizuno Trails again - just awful shoes.