Catch up for the last few days…

Monday was an 8.2 mile recovery run @9:19, Tuesday was a mixed pace workout, 12.75 miles that went: 3 miles easy, 15min@MPish (7:23), 1min rec, 15min@HP (7:04), 1min rec, 15min@HM-10k pace(6:51), 3.75 miles home…7:59 avg. for the entire run.

Yesterday, I took a day off.  No real reason except I haven’t had one in 9 weeks, nor have I had a cutback week during this period, so I figured I was due.  The annoying thing is that I figured today’s run would be all sprightly for having had a rest day yesterday but it turned out to be the opposite.  Heavy legs and I didn’t have any energy, so I managed a sluggish 12 at 8:46.

Tomorrow is set to be hill reps, though it’s supposed to rain all day and because of where Smile Hill is, I’ll have to run about 4 more miles than the workout calls for, so I might do something else instead.  We’ll see.

Aside from running, life is up and down.  My apartment continues to be a source of joy and grief.  To think I was so excited to get away from the nail gun that had been banging away next door at Nick’s for the last 3 months (the building next to his has been under major renovation and it’s been months of noise starting at 7:15am, 6 days/week), only to find that I live in the loudest apartment I’ve ever lived in – and I lived in NYC for 15 years, probably 6 apartments there total, none of which compares to this.

The bedroom is extremely quiet, thankfully devoid of any street noise, but the guy who lives above me wakes me up in the morning with his footsteps through my ceiling.  In the living area, the buses and motorcycles are non-stop…it’s truly hateful.  On a positive note, there is  a funeral home a couple doors away which seems to do a booming business and the groups of mourners as they wait outside beneath my window are oddly comforting, their quiet voices and light conversation calming with all the hustle and bustle surrounding it.

What this noise crap is doing though, is lighting an even bigger fire under my ass to get some major income over this next year so I can get a better apartment and wouldn’t you know…I’m also going to need a new (used) car very soon.  I’m even wondering if I should go to Boston in April since that money could be better spent elsewhere, I’ll have to wait and see how it goes.

The good news is after all these years of making websites and pretty much sucking at SEO (search engine optimization), I recently figured out a key process that I never had a handle on before, so I’m expecting some major success from optimizing my old sites as well as some recent ones I’ve just finished, plus I have a handful of new sites I’m going to build.

Now what I should do is make a fresh voiceover demo and send that out and about, but frankly, I’m more interested in things I can do entirely on my own which makes web marketing a more interesting and entertaining pursuit.  It’s like a game of strategy – huge fun.

A side effect of this recent tunnel vision for the web stuff and building a moolah empire is that it has equalized my running freakdom in a healthy way.  I’m no longer spending copious amounts of time on the forums or messing around with my running schedule and daydreaming about running.  Don’t get me wrong, I live for running, that hasn’t changed, but it’s a constant in the background and I feel confident that as long as I do the workouts, it’ll continue to build quietly and steadily without me constantly poring over my logs or trying to figure out how fast I can get in X amount of time.

I’m sure that’ll change in a couple weeks as PDR is happening the weekend after this and then Philly will be sneaking up soon after, but it’s nice for now anyway, to have another main focus beyond what I can or can’t accomplish out on the road.

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