Rain, Rain, Go Away...

Been raining her for a while, almost a week. News full of flood reports all over the province. Tons of new building going on, I guess we'll see if its of good quality or not this year. Coach's house has issues, sorry coach.

Swam this morning. 3500 meters, feels like real training again. Though the training partners are starting to disappear. It is way more difficult to suffer through hard sessions on your own. Actually had some efforts in this am's swim. I'm happy with where I'm at in the water, makes it easy to go to the pool 5 days a week. Swam 400 metres for time in the middle of a 1k block. Hit 6:03, which isn't partcularly fast. Effort was supposed to be aerobic, I think I went about 85%... I'm pretty sure I've hit 5:45 before. Not too far to go to get back there. Technique is good, and focus is too.

I've been up to my eyeballs in schoolwork, my brain hurts. Sun comes out for all of two hours this afternoon, windy, but sunny. I look outside, rush to change into shorts (yes, shorts in November), plug into my iPod and throw on my shoes, out I go.

Nice and easy, just average around 4:30/kilometre over a hilly xcountry route around my part of town. Run for fifty minutes, felt great. Love these moments, where running felt like a break in my day rather than another 'thing' I have to do. Remind me to do this more. This is why I run. Yah, felt good.