Day 368 -- Push up Day 2

• 1.75 miles
• 7:45/mile pace
• 2015
• Pleasanton, CA
• Ran well, though short and easy...just a streak extender, which felt like plenty after another 36 holes of golf today, taking way to many swings. 
• 25 push ups, 1 set -- first time I have done push ups on back to back days since doing P90X in 2009...and I'm just assuming I must have done push ups on consequitive days during that craziness.   I need to do that again actually. 

Day 363

• 3.86 miles
• 7:46/mile pace
• 0530
• Novato, CA
• Nice cool morning in Marin County -- woke up in plenty of time to get a run of length in, but started answering non-urgent emails and pissed away an hour, which basically confirmed to me that I'm not a runner these days, but rather just a streaker.   I think I'd like to become a runner again, but nothing I do seems to indicate that I really do....guess I'll just continue the streak through the week and then evaluate.

Day 362

• 3.31 miles
• 7:34/mile pace
• 0334
• From/To Home
• I'll consider this a fast run considering the start time -- first mile was slowish, last mile was hardish.   Not many people out at all...actually, saw no one outside, but there were cars on the 101, as always.  Becca is doing speedwork at the track today, she meets people there at 4:30am, which seems very extreme to me, but I'm glad she enjoys it.  

Day 357

• 6.48 miles
• 7:24/mile pace
• 1939
• From/To Home
• Felt good and ran by one of IronChad's houses...it wasn't on fire or anything, so I guess that fact isn't so exciting.  Anyway, this was my first run in my new $39 pair of New Balance running shoes...I like them...and not just because they look just like Case's shoes, which is exactly why I chose them.  

Day 349

• 3.94 miles
• 7:53/mile pace
• 0635
• To/From Home
• Had plenty of time to get in the longer run I had planned (not that I'm following a plan, I'm not), but then I started working and well, when I only had roughly 30 minutes left above is all I ended up getting in -- had I wanted to run faster I suppose I could've increased the milage some anyway...problem is that once I've compromised from my original intention I seem to mail it in, which could also explain some of the lethargy of the past 2 months.
• Need new shoes, based on milage and how my legs feel, may buy some tonight, we'll see.

Day 348

• 5.02 miles
• 7:17/mile pace
• 0630
• From/To Home
• Becca ran 8 this morning, four of which were mile repeats at like 6:40/mile, which is quite strong considering...well, yeah, she hasn't run any mile repeats in years, but I don't really need to explain why that is quite strong, it just is.   Anyway, that made me feel like I couldn't just run 8:50 miles like I wanted to, so I grabbed my iShuffle thing and decided I'd run easy for a song, then hard for a song etc.  It was more enjoyable than recent efforts, so I might make a habit of this.   What I need to make a habit of is following a schedule, I have all but given up on the schedule I was trying to follow before because, well, I think I just wasn't ready for it and as a result it buried me...perhaps more mentally than physically, but felt 6 feet under regardless.   I haven't given up on the early December marathon, though I have little hope of making my sub-3 hour goal...I still want to do it even if only to hang with those that are going (The Rosenlof's and Elliot).  

Day 343

• 6.56 miles
• 7:38/mile pace
• 0630
• From/To Home
• Felt harder than the numbers may lead you to believe.
• When my summary comment is like that one it means it's been too long between run and posting comments...

Day 341

• 5.75 miles
• 7:08/mile pace
• 0621
• Mt. Pleasant, SC
• Felt like picking up the pace today, first time I have felt like doing so since perhaps June.  Held off running hard until the last .2 for fear that I would make the run miserable by hitting the wall -- I blame overall out-of-shapeness and reading this before running this morning:  http://elliotkawaoka.com/2012/09/10/vegas-70-3-worlds-2012-refusing-to-fold/ for giving me that fear.  
• Hip felt fine today, it is very strange that it comes and goes, but at least it goes sometimes.
• It is 9/11.

Day 335

• 4.53 miles
• 7:04/mile pace
• 1802
• Arrowhead CC
• Treadmill run as a result of my lack of motivation when waking at 5am -- the treadmill run actually felt better than any run has for a while, so that's positive, though hard to know if it is impressive as it was a treadmill run afterall.  We'll see how this whole thing plays out, but I do feel like motivation is returning, which I take to mean that I'm healthy again.

Day 324

• 1.96 miles
• 7:28/mile pace
• 2030
• From/To home
• Second mile was sub 7 minute pace, but only because I was surprised how slow I was going when I checked the watch at the 1 mile mark.   Think I have some sort of sinus infection, but Becca cashed in a Z-pack subscription she had and gave to me, so hopefully I'll be back to full health soon.

Day 313

• 8.77 miles
• 7:58/mile pace
• 0515
• To/From Home
• Feeling better!   I signed up for the California International Marathon yesterday.  Time to get serious, what that means I'm not yet sure, but will start reducing the absurd number of cookies I've been eating lately, plus the ice cream and probably start concentrating on sleeping the proper hours and so forth.   We'll see, but very glad I'm feeling better now.

Day 304

• 5.11 miles
• 7:31/mile pace
• 0414
• From/To Home
• Slower than it felt, but isn't that more common than not?   Surprisingly warm/hot this morning considering the early start time -- Becca wanted to do a long run this morning, so I had to finish before her scheduled 5am start time...I thought that would've made for a nice cool run, but yeah, it's August.  

Day 302

• 8.19 miles
• 7:20/mile pace
• 0555
• From/To Home
• 11 minute warm up, 5 x 5 minutes hardish with 2 minute recovery between, 14 minute cooldown/return-home.  This turned out to be a hard day.

Day 295

• 6.86 miles
• 7:39/mile pace
• 0603
• San Bruno, CA
• 11 minute warm up, 7 x two minute surges with 1 minute recovery between them, 20 minute cool down.   Ended up doing this on some hilly roads for safety reasons and because there was a golf course at the top of the hill that I wanted to see.
•    http://news.runnersworld.com/2012/07/24/top-u-s-streaker-hits-44-years/   I wonder if this guy started to get nervous as his streak approached 300 days thinking of how tragic it could be if the streak were to end so close to 1 year, but not quite there...

Day 294

• 6.22 miles
• 7:39/mile pace
• 0635
• Richmond, CA
• Running in cooler weather is a much more comfortable experience -- seeing highway signs for Sacramento during my run kept me focused on the California International Marathon that I need to sign up for as well...though it didn't make me speed up at all because, well, I didn't feel like speeding up at all.

Day 293

• 5.83 miles
• 7:48/mile pace
• 0645
• From/To home
• Easy run with 10 x 30 seconds fast with 1 minute recovery.   Felt fine.

Day 292

• 4 miles
• 7:47/mile pace
• 1835
• Arrowhead CC
• Treadmill run, felt good considering how exhausting Sunday was.

Day 285

• 3.88 miles
• 7:44/mile pace
• 1110
• From/To my parents house -- Atlanta, GA
• Streak extender, tried to find flat route, which isn't easy.

Day 280

• 5.58 miles
• 7:48/mile pace
• 0630
• From/To Home
• Easy run, new shoes really do feel much better.

Day 278

• 3.81 millas
• 7:52/milla
• 1730
• Playa Mujeras, Mexico
• Suplemento de la raya