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Week 3 Training Recap

on January 11, 2025

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2025 Favorite Runs

With only 3 days left in the year, I logged 2130 miles, 289 runs over 293 hours. This is the second year in a row where I've hit this kind of mileage. In some ways it just came as a natural consequence of two very solid training blocks, and because so many days were spent "running the mile I'm in" the reflection back makes the volume pretty eye-opening. So with this much mileage, what makes a run special? Is it possible to handpick a few that made a lasting impression. I'm going to try. The more miles I run, the more I understand running is as much about building stories and experiences as it is about the actual physical motion. Part of why I take all these photos, videos, and keep this journal is to have an outlet at the moment, but also store them up and look back to during this incredible stage of my life. Glass City Marathon (Well...half-marathon) When my training went off the rails with an injury and then an insult to the injury after a bike crash, it broke...

What Happened Today

I got a call from the tour manager at 1:25am this morning saying the Uber canceled on him and the bus driver needed a ride back to the venue. This happened after I drifted off to sleep about an hour earlier. I didn't mind getting the call and indicated to the TM to give me a ring if this situation arose (and I expected it would). Even an hour worth of sleep helped put enough fuel in my tank for this final run. It felt like being woken up from sleep in the middle of the night a few weeks ago when I was sailing. I drove to the hotel, picked up the bus driver, took him to the venue, and then back home. I went into sensory denervation mode where I lay very still with a special eye mask that contains speakers that I can play white noise through (airplane cabin sound is my personal favorite right now). Without difficulty I fell back asleep until my body natual woke up. When I peeled off the eye mask I noticed some light so I knew it had to be after 6am. I cracked open an eye ...

Running Art Project Sneak Peek

I retraced my steps and found the mitten that fell out of my pocket yesterday. You would think I would have learned my lesson to zip up my pockets, but alas, I just shove them in my coat and presume they will stay put. It didn't take many steps to find, but when I did it felt stiff as a board from being on the frozen ground for the past 24 hours. In another couple weeks I'll be able to leave the mittens at home. In other news, a art project I've been working on for the past several years is coming very close to completion. It is one thing to have an idea and a whole other thing to move the idea through the stages needed to reach completion. When I started running longer distances I used mapping software to create GPS art. It made for cool strava maps, but I wanted to bring them into a tangible space. With some help from additional mapping programs, I managed to form large scale images of the routes that showed individual houses and then set them up in full color. This wee...

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