Since resuming running only a few days after the Green Mountain Marathon, I've missed only a handful of days of running (by choice). More or less, I've been running everyday, and it feels good. This has allowed me to increase my mileage quite easily. Cramming miles into only four days of running, which I did during my last marathon build-up, was much more difficult.
Shortly after the recent time-change, I began running in the morning. I was worried about how my body would react to such a drastic change, but it turned out to be a pretty easy transition. On most days, I'm out the door and running by 7/am. Yesterday, Jessica managed to get me up out of bed well before 7/am. This was truly an anomaly. I require a solid 8 hours of sleep/night. Any less and I'm doomed for the day. Typically, I'm asleep no later than 10:30/pm, which means, in theory, I should be able to function quite well starting at 6:30/pm, and this has usually been the case. Hooray for sleep.
One other extremely important component of successful running is, of course, diet. I've been trying to make my way through "The Vegetarian Myth," but it's been a challenge, to say the least. It has gotten mixed reviews, but I don't like it. I was led to the book through my interest in, and reading of, "What We Leave Behind," the premise of which is that so long as we facilitate the perpetuation of industrial civilization, Earth (and everything living on it) is doomed as we know it. Anyway, one of the authors of this book, with whom I mostly agree, commented that "The Vegetarian Myth" saved his life--to what extent, I'm not sure, but that's what sparked my interest in the book. According to the author of the veggie myth, there's nothing good about being a moral and/or nutritional vegetarian/vegan. It's kind of depressing.
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