All I have to do...

...is run regularly until not running makes me antsy-- then training is easy. I think I'm getting there! Running ~ 4 days/week. Trying to reduce likelihood of injury by upping mileage slowly and running on Pasadena grass. That said, living 1/2 mile from campus makes most of my routes 1 mile longer and has made feel particularly macho when all of my runs turn out to be a mile longer than I expected. The sum mileage this week should be about 20.

7 miles today?

ran to arroyo and did tempo loop, but not as a tempo, just running... I feel terrible, but that's another story.

Maybe I'd rather write songs, after all.

a disingtegration of routine

Thurs, Jul 9: ran fartlek w/ Emily in Highland Forest.
Fri, Jul 10: did 9 mile route w/ Emily but walked a mile or so near end-- heat was killer!

nothing
continuing

Wed??? ran Huntington with Steph. dead

Fri, Jul 17 ran Lacey long way with self.

Sat, Jul 18: biked 40 miles to Huntington, piddled around, biked to Blue line and took that back to Pasadena

Yesterday (37.8? miles biking)

Yesterday: We biked from max station to Hagg lake, around, and then back to B STREET where Kallen's parents picked us up. It was a good one. Kallen had something going on with her hip, though, so I got more cleat practice. (btw, first ride with those new ones! Awesome) I am terrible at pulling-- must learn to do that better.
Good times. I'll miss biking with these trees and that girl.

Packed up the bike today. Will mail it today or tommorrow.

Yesterday (4.2 miles)

Tuesday, Jul 6: 4.2 miles with Emily on 155th to Hart and back. Emily had eaten rice with a lot of hot sauce earlier, so we stopped a lot to stretch/want-to-barf (me/emily), but it was a good run. Nice recovery from the other day. Kallen and I plan on doing an awesome bike ride around a lake today, and I will try out my new cycling shoes. Yikes! Ye gods! Wahoo! I'm scared!

Mileage the past week

Week of Mon, June 29 - Sun, July 4:
goal: 20 miles (recovery week). Also was supposed to do striders 2x/week.

running
0 + 0 + 0 + 6 + 6.1 +4.4 + 0 = 16.5
biking
20 + 10 + 21 + 0 + 16.4 + 0 + 14= 81.4

Didn't quite get to 20 miles. Also didn't run even half of the days in the week. I think the legs needed the rest, though. This next week is supposed to be 30-35 miles. I think I can do it if I start icing my foot for real.

New Jeans, awesome possum

Sunday, 4th of July: was going to do an epic bike ride with Kallen, but her shifting cable broke, leaving her on an unbearably high gear. She took out my multitool (thanks, Zane!) and messed with the derailer, earning herself two gears down, and we finished the 14 mile loop only once and then went off to go get her bike fixed. Saw the Sauvie Island Half Marathon and Marathon finishing up, tho. What a party! Drooled at shoes, cleats, pedals.
Monday, 5th of July: biked 5 miles to Kallen's house, played tennis, got ice cream, bought shoes, cleats, pedals (oh, my!), and then went to run with Emily in the dusk. It was awesome. Some leftover fireworks were still going up, and we ran in the fattest park ever, on a trail that went steadily uphill for about 2 miles, before we off-roaded it completely and ran in grass up to our knees (feared snakes, but none here are poisonous) and encountered the highway after a while. Total might have been 90 minutes. I looked it up on gmap-ped later, and it was 7 miles round trip as the crow flies-- but probably more, because I didn't know the neighborhood or the actual route. It was dark when we finished, then we walked around the neighborhood to warm down. Lovely! still need to treat arches..!