got the runs

After three long days of field work, i was finally able to catch up on sleep a bit and jog a lovely autumn 6 miles today.  felt completely spoiled by my good health, beautiful surroundings, and delicious weather.  an absolutely gorgeous day.

~ 1 hour in the gym...upper body.  Pretty weak this days...

A beautiful 7 miles on the WOD.  Perfect morning.  8:05 average, felt strong.  Will be in the field until next week thursday or so...might be tough to keep anything up...

4 slow miles after work today.  The feet and legs are pretty fatigued from standing all day, so it was sorta brutal.  But nice to stretch the legs.  Kicked up scores of deer!

~7 miles on a great trail in Grasonville, MD.  I'm happy to be able to keep up some fitness while doing field work!

5 miles on the trail in Grasonville, MD.  Again, glad to be able to get a few miles in after hours of work. Good times.

Another run in Grasonville, MD.  I feel incredibly antsy with life lately, and I was just dying to get out on this run.  Many memories of the beautiful west have me in a tailspin, and the only way for me to cope with this is to stay outside and make something happen.  I guess it's a funk.  The quality level of several spheres of my life are a couple notches lowere than where I'd like them to be, so I get antsy and crazy and need to get out.  This run helped, but likely only fueled the fires.  Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing remains to be determined.

6 mile WOD run.  Booyah.

noon: 35 min lapswim

pm: 1 hour weights, 3 mile run muscle-stretcher

6 slow-'n-easy Holiday miles with my friend Eek in Shadyside, MD.  Making room for turkey.  Gobble gobble.

7 miles on the WOD. Pushed it a bit harder than usual; ended up with fairly tight hamstrings. Felt great to burn off some food and lazyness.

~25 mile bike-ride on DC trails.  Beautiful day for a ride!  Thoroughly enjoyed cruisin' and bruisin' and seeing some sights. 

am:  4 miles on the WOD.  This run served as a muscle-relaxor.  My hamstrings were sore from saturday, and the soreness was exacerbated slightly by yesterday's bike ride.  I just needed to heat them up a bit and do some serious stretching.  Still a bit tight, but they should be ok by this evening.  Beautiful overcast day!

pm: 1 hour weights at the gym.

Good ol' 3 mile out-and-back on the WOD.  It's been a while!  I'm feeling my deteriorated running fitness, as I was pushing it to average 8:00 min/miles.  7:30 used to be my "comfortable" pace, and it looks like some speed workouts are in order to make this my reality again

feelin' good in the neighborhood.

am:6 miles. 

pm: 1 hour weights

A gorgeous morning.  I never could have guessed during this run what the day would bring....

today marks a sad day.  my little truck--one of my best buddies--has just hopped on the Great Highway.  She's off to better destinations.  (actually, she's still in the driveway..but she's not leaving it without some aid).  Here's to an old friend.