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Same old, same old

August 5, 2010 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: hot and humid

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Today I discovered something wonderful. Lauren Fleshman a very acomplished distance runner writes a fairly lengthy blog about her day to day activities. (I'm a running nerd, I know). So basically I'm parusing through it in my free time at work now. It really has some great insights into running in general. The story arc also is so awsome cuz this year Lauren has come from basically not running for a year and a half to winning the 2010 USATF 5k. She also has my current favorite running quote "That was all balls... just balls" (sorry if its misquoted).

Today I felt real excited for this season. I still had to drag myself out to run today but the run went much better than it has in the past couple days this week. I've decided that probably the reason that I'm feeling so fatigued is that I've been running the same 2 routes around Twinsburg for 3 weeks. Every 9 miler is the same, every 8 miler, and every long run. Hopefully teh change of senery when I get back to campus will help with this. I really need to make a consious effort to find some better/newer runs around campus though. Maybe a Garmin would help??
Streached and rolled afterwards for the second day in a row. Its amazing how much this simple activity makes my legs feel sooo much better compared to before. I don't know how I ever survived training without streaching. I'm still thinking about how I'm gonna schedule my weeks this season. Class should be good so I can pretty much have most afternoons free. I've got some ideas I want to run by Coach in our meeting that get me excited to be back. I'ev been thinking about adding morning runs too. Maybe during the winter maybe because I would probably like to increase my mileage more then. Took my resting heart rate just now: 44. I need to get into the habit of taking this every morning though so I can keep a good track of my health/ fitness. I'm also really excited for the nutritionist?? this year. I don't know why but I'm convinced I don't eat right.
Probably cuz I went out for ice cream with ROman last night. Small cookie dough blizzard. It was really good though. I got drenched on the run and was wet/ cold in his car and at dairy queen. There were almost tropical showers yesterday because a cold front is coming though and Friday is supposed to be much cooler. I started running after one finished up but still got caught in one from miles 3 to 5. It was nice to run in the rain though. This summer has had some quality rainy runs which makes me happy because last summer I don't think I ran in the rain once. It rained enough though that my ipod died which kinda sucked but was also nice. I just listened to my breathing and thought about random stuff that I don't remember but I'm sure was awsome.