Week 6: Day 3 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

It's starting to get lighter earlier. Does this mean that I get to go run at 6:10am now instead of at 6:25am? I don't like running in the dark. I like to see my surroundings better when there is some light, more than just street lights.

Week 6: Day 1 - 2012

cardio:

• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

I heard that it would rain tomorrw. I'm not sure if it will be in the morning or later. Since I don't run in the rain, perhaps I should make it into an unscheduled rest day. I've kept telling myself these last several weeks that I need an unscheduled rest day or rest week anyway, so I should take it.

Week 5: Day 7 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:30am) = 6.6 mile, time = 1:11:34, pace @ 10:51

Total Weekly Mileage: 20.29
Total January Mileage: 81.49
Total February Mileage: 15.40
Total Yearly Mileage: 96.89
Total Shoe Mileage: 222.04

I slept normal last night and I felt good running this morning. I was also somewhat worried that it would be windy this morning because it was unexpectedly super windy yesterday morning. There was slight wind this morning, but it didn't bother me. I also had minor shin splints last night from walking around, but I didn't have that problem this morning. My mild shin splints seem to come and go whenever.

So, I decided to run on this route this morning. Between mile 2.9 and mile 3.3, there was challenging enough uphill. It was challenging enough that I thought I would want to take a break at some point of the hill or even at the top of the hill. I powered through without stopping or slowing down to a walk. I felt so accomplished, happy, and like I had a runner's high that I didn't want to stop for a rest or walk, and I kept running. I hadn't done this route in a long time and the last few times that I did, I had to break during the uphill because I had a hard time with it and didn't have enough endurance to keep running.

I thought I would take a break from running this following week. I'm not sure now because I feel like I still want to run. I think I'll just keep running until I really get bored and my motivation crashes.

Week 5: Day 6 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 12pm) = 1 hour

I slept normal last night! Hope tonight is the same so I can run normal tomorrow morning!

It's not windy this afternoon, but it was so windy this morning! I hope it's not windy tomorrow morning. I don't like to run when it's so windy.

Week 5: Day 5 - 2012

cardio:

• hilly trail (@ 6:30am) = 1.1 miles
• warm up = 1.1 mile
• cool down = 1.1 mile

I don't know what happened to me, I couldn't sleep until after midnight last night. I woke up feeling tired and not really in the mood to run. I decided that I'd feel better if I just ran because it would be short. At the end of my warm up, I thought about just skipping the hill run and just turn around (2.2 miles round trip), calling that a run. I decided against that and ran the hills. Should have listened to myself because I felt worse. I barely made it past the most challenging part of the trail/hills (near the beginning) when I stopped for a break because I felt so unhappy and really unmotivated. I hadn't done that in a long time, taking a break near the beginning on the most challenging part of the run. I sorta felt a little better after the short break and kept running the rest of the trail/run, but I took another break at the halfway point before finishing my run. I hope that this bad mood was just from lack of sleep, and I hope to sleep better tomorrow night so I can run normally on Sunday morning. I'm wide awake now and don't feel the need to rest or go back to sleep.

I did time my hill run, but I'm not sure if I even recorded it right after starting/stopping my stopwatch. It says that my run was faster than past hill runs, but I don't believe it, so I'm just going to record my run distance and not the finish time.

Week 5: Day 4 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:30am) = 5.5 miles, time = 1:00:05, pace @ 10:55

I didn't expect fog this morning. My laziness was kicking in at the sight of fog and I wanted to go back to bed! I told myself that I would feel better if I went out for a run and I'd get over my laziness. The fog was dense enough that I couldn't see 500 feet in front of me, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. Around mile 2.5, I got concerned that it would rain on me. I felt some water drops fall on me, but that was from running under trees. At that point, I had an option of changing my route...I thought about sticking to my original distance (5.5 miles) or cutting it short, making it a mile less. I decided that the water drops I felt came from the trees because I felt nothing in open areas, so I stuck to my original plan/distance. I felt better and relieved for making that decision after a few minutes because the fog got thinner and the sky got brighter.

I also decided that I don't want to run the L.A.-Chinatown Firecracker 10K race next weekend (Feb. 12). For now, I think I fixed my boredom and lack of motivation. I think I just needed to change my running route and distance (adding more miles). It seemed that was all I needed to do because I feel normal again with running.

Week 5: Day 3 -2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10:15am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

I like running in cold temperatures with a sunny sky. Will it be cold in the morning? I guess I will have to find out in the morning.