38 miles this week with a 10 mile long run and no hip pain. Great! It's pathetic how tired I got after just running 10 miles, but it was at the end of a week that counts as "big" now, and it was 83 F, probably the hottest so far this year.

Maybe for the first time next week I can try a specific goal: 40 miles. Let's try 5 x 6 miles during the week and 10 at the weekend. If it'll bee sufficiently dry weather, I could run the Clark park loop, with an extra lap by the creek - that should be about 6 miles.

It's been quite a while since my last post... and I haven't been training very hard over the winter. In fact I barely got out: mostly one or two runs a week, and those are only 4-5 miles. Keep in mind that we had the coldest winter in decades, e.g. we had a day when the high temperature was 1 F. We had snow and ice covered roads very often. It was quite brutal.

But my main reason of not training was the never healing hip. I basically gave up on it. But when I realized at the end of winter that I'm up to 160 lbs (in my peak I was 147), I decided that I had to train, even if just for fun, even if it ruins my hip. I just need this for my physical and mental health.

I've been regularly training for a few weeks now again. I ran 30-40 miles a week; not a whole lot, but more than all winter. My weight didn't budge yet, but that's quite normal. And actually my hip is a bit better since I've been training again.

I'm dreaming of a sub-3 hour marathon. I should do it before it's too late; before I won't be able to run any more.