Day 87

• 3 miles (estimate)
• Slow
• 1200
• From/To Home
• Just a streak extender, didn't feel bad or good, just under motivated...long run tomorrow to start the new year.

Day 86

• 1.7 miles
• Slow
• 0800
• From/To Home
• Gave myself a break due to my lazy/late start and self promise to begin marathon training next week.

Day 85

• 5.25 miles
• Medium
• 1900
• From/To Home
• Felt pretty good, decided to extend to 5 miles, not bad for back to back days, though nothing like what I'll need to do if I get back into marathon training...which I plan to start in January.   Good enough reason to go to Waffle House afterwards.

Day 84

• 5 miles
• Medium speed (8:30/mile estimated)
• 1845
• From/To home
• Nice/cool weather out, felt fine, but didn't end up pushing it...right butt bone on outside felt less than perfect, perhaps needs to be stretched more?  Have increased stretching calves and quads on Sister-in-laws suggestion, probably need to do IT band stuff, but maybe that'll be something I start in 2012.

Day 83

• 2 miles
• Slow
• 1945
• From/To Home
• Felt very good, should've gone longer probably, but didn't want to I guess...the newer (black) shoes feel much better than the one's I traveled with and threw away in Mobile.

Day 82

• 3.2 miles (estimate, same as yesterday, though I listed 3.3 yesterday)
• 8 min/mile pace (25:21)
• 1100
• From/To Gran and Gramps house (just past 1.5 mile curve)
• Ran a little harder today, negative split well...82 makes me think of Herschel Walker, though he may have actually won the Heisman in '83.

Day 81

• 3.3 miles (estimate)
• 8:30/mile-ish
• 1200
• From/To Gran and Gramps house
• Felt a little sore from yesterday's long run, Bec said it's the first time she's run after a long run in a long long time.   Negative split it by 50 seconds or so, after warming up it didn't feel bad.  Hamstring still a little tight, but seems to be getting a little better/looser?

Day 80

• 15 miles
• 8:50/mile pace
• 0700
• Mobile, AL -- Spring Hill, Mobile CC, USA, mutant duck park
• Long Run with Becca, felt OK, ate powerbar gels and carried Gatorade...hammies still felt a little tight, but not bad...still worried about eye swelling and itchy top of mouth, drives me insane. 

Day 79

• 1.5 miles (estimate)
• Super slow
• 0650
• From/To Gran and Gramps house
• When not feeling well, or not wanting to run even 1 mile can be miserable.   Legs were a bit tight still, so didn't run fast at all, didn't run far either -- woke up with puffy right eye and general fatigue...feel like crap actually, but could have something to do with Cindy's dog Abby...or I could have Shingles like Becca thought she saw on the back of my neck the other day.  Whatever, Streak continues...

Day 78

• 2.2 miles
• Slow
• 0650
• From/To Mom and Dad's house
• Streak extender, legs (hammies especially) felt tighter than comfortable -- not sure why, hope it doesn't last. 

Day 77

• 4.18 miles
• 8 mins/mi pace (estimated)
• 0900
• From/To Mom and Dad's house
• Hilly, perhaps 8:15/mi pace, but having measured the last mile at sub 8/mi pace I gave benefit of doubt above.   Ran with Becca, which was nice, but hard, think I'm just tired from the late night running the past two nights...nearing goal of 78 days as that is confirmed to be 2.5 months (Becca's decree that it had to go that long)...next goal 100 days, at which point I send email to David Ross.

Day 76

• 2.05 miles
• 8:30/mile pace
• 2130
• From/To Mom and Dad's house
• Streak continuer, rainy, after Mellow mushroom with AU crew -- find it harder to do in Atlanta than in PHX, but I guess that makes some sense.

Day 75

• 4.18 miles
• 7:43/mile pace
• 2210
• From/To my parents house (hilly)
• Ran hard, probably because Bec and I had serious talk about future, my work being too much of a priority in her opinion and my frustration with her being a bitch about it most of the time....clearly we both need to come towards each other in respect to each -- we will try.   Felt like I ran fast, though pace doesn't show it...guess I should be happy it was sub 8/mi. 

Day 74

• 2.6 miles
• 8:33/mile pace
• 1035
• From/To my parents house
• Felt OK considering that yesterday I was so tired I did a fat kid fall towards the end of the run...just a streak extender, thankfully cut knee did not hurt at all and feet felt fine -- starting to think that non-extreme running every day may be easier on the joints than going hard and taking days off, or perhaps I'm just finally getting in better shape?   Don't feel or look like it, but maybe...

Day 73

• 14.03 miles
• Slow
• 0600
• From/To Mom and Dad's house
• 5 miles longer than my previous high for the year, probably not very smart -- took a digger with 2 miles to go, cut my knee, bled down leg and splattered over to other leg...just not in shape for a 14 miler, but that's what was on Becca's marathon schedule and she didn't want to do it alone.   It was fun, but probably not so smart for me.   

Day 72

• 4.03 miles
• 8:37/mile pace
• 1130
• From/to my parents house -- flat route
• Ran with Becca for the first time in a while, we decided my folks should move to a flatter neighborhood, even though we went the flat route.

Day 71

• 3.1 miles
• 8:14/mile pace
• 0730
• From/To home:
• Supposed to run further, just piddled around and ran out of time.

Day 70

• 1.8 miles
• Slow
• 0750
• From/To home
• Case's birthday, he got a Kindle Fire today, Becca showed him how to use it before I went to run, it was cool to see him excited.  Love that boy...tend to pay more attention to him than Finn these days, but I'm sure that'll change...did enjoy the short amount of time alone with Finn last night after Case went to sleep.  

Day 69

• 5.09 miles
• 7:44/mile pace
• 0545
• Arrowhead CC treadmill
• Felt hard, but not brutal, easier to average fastish pace on treadmill -- burned 670 calories and climbed 140+ feet, whatever, I used the treadmill because it was raining pretty hard...as soon as I got home Becca went running in the rain just to make me feel like a wuss. 

Day 68

• 1.7 miles
• Slow
• 0745
• From/To Home
• Just an easy streak extender -- a little rain, but not cold.

Day 67

• 7 miles
• 7:55/mile pace
• 1400
• From/To Home
• Ran 30 minutes out easy and then negative split the return...return was 7:14/mile, with final mile being 7:00.  Somewhat surprised by the speed overall, especially the return.   Hopefully I can turn a corner soon.

Day 66

• 3.6 miles
• Easy, negative split
• 1500
• From/To Home
• Not too inspired today, promised myself I'd run long tomorrow...

Day 65

• 1.7 Miles
• Slow
• 0645
• From/To home
• Lazy streak extender...

Day 64

• 4.5 Miles
• Slowish -- check Cool Running
• 1945
• From/To home
• Couldn't get out of the hotel bed in Holiday Inn near JFK -- not because the bed was overly comfortable, just because I was beat...the walk home the night before in horrid rain didn't help.   Bec had both boys down for the night by the time I got home so we alternated runs, which was cool.  The Streak goes on.

Day 63

• 3 miles (ish?  check GMAPS -- 28 mins)
• Slow
• 0630
• Edison, NJ (From/To Aurigema's house)
• Nothing impressive, slight rain, not cold though, which was nice.

Day 62

• 5 miles
• Fastish (8:05/mil -- 7:02 final mile)
• 0520
• From/To home
• Felt OK today, definitely less little aches etc. than I had a month ago...still not able to make the wheels move, get motivated and sustain the speed, but the final mile gave me some hope.   Becca on the other hand rolled out a 41 minute 5 mile effort easily -- her speed has come back very quickly.  Guess today means I made 2 months, which is good, except still haven't reached the Bec minimum of 2.5 months and my next horizon goal of 100, just so I can send an email to David Ross and City.

Day 61

• 3.1 miles
• Medium speed (still slow, but ran harder)
• 0800
• From/To Home
• Rain and strong wind made the run more difficult, but I felt fine, glad to not be sick as I feared I was getting.

Day 60

Sunday December 5, 2011

• 2 miles
• Slow
• 1915
• From/To Home
• Hurt from yesterday's long run all day, was worried about being sick, felt better after run

Day 59

• 9.25 miles
• Slow
• 1305
• From/To Home
• Perfect overcast cool day for a long run -- ran on the canal, could've gone further...longest run since the sinus issues...still think I have lingering effects from that as I have sinus irritation that I never previously had.   Anyway, good day, streak goes on.

Day 58

• 3.1 miles
• Not fast
• 0700
• From/To home
• Nearing 2 months...interesting.   Felt fine, ipod helped, still hate dogs...especially the fact that they crap where I want to run. 

Day 57

• 5 miles
• Slow, very
• 0700
• From/To Home
• Passenger 57...still can't make myself get up and go, need to work on that -- always bet on black (the shoes are still an issue, but putting miles on them so I can get rid of them sooner).   Today is Baker's birthday...he is getting serious about getting in shape, got a personal trainer and everything (2 days per week), plans to start cardio now and mentioned he wants to work out every day of his 39th year....which means I must.   Need to remember this.