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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: September 17, 2016, 11:15:37 pm »how gassed are you at the end of a run like that (5k @ 20:30)?
well, definitely breathing hard.. but it's more of just completely soaked & just glad i'm done running - very "overheated".. I basically feel the exact same at the end of 20:xx, 21:xx, and 22:xx ........ lmao. It seems pretty sad but I think the heat/humidity have alot to do with it. It honestly seems like whatever pace I run at, it's more of a chore in the morning .. I'm just not amp'd up like I am at night for example. I wouldn't even try what I did tonight, in the morning .. or any of my speed work sessions.. not yet at least. Eventually I want too though -> I need to be able to feel 100% in the morning. I'm definitely improving at running in the morning though .. miles 2 & 3 are getting closer to each other (about the same), in my recent runs. Once I can get miles 1, 2, & 3 all about the same in the morning, that will be an enormous improvement.
Also i'd like to start trying to hit 19:xx 5k's every morning .. pretty soon.
So part of these morning sessions are literally just to try and get comfortable running in the morning, sleeping early, and getting into this new rhythm.. I think it's going decent so far but, I really need to shift it up a gear and start hitting 19:xx's every morning. I know I can it's more of a mental thing.
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just wonder if you'd be helped by upping mileage a bit. seems like your overall volume is low even for middle distance. maybe aerobic base just isn't solid enough?
ya I agree, upping the mileage right now would possibly help a little bit .. but I don't think it would help enough to incorporate it. Upping the mileage too much will start to make me not want to jump, or sprint, etc.. I don't want to fall into the 'long distance' mindset like I was before. I want to keep trying to build my speed/power/technique and somehow morph into a Mo Farah style of running.. So i'm placing more emphasis on running economy/speed than my raw aerobic base right now. It sounds kind of crazy but, I think i'm a ton faster than I was last year at this time ... Once it cools down, we'll really see.
I've PR'd alot of stuff in the summer heat.. and i think i'm getting ready to PR a ton more things (12-minute test, mile, 5k, 1km, 400m) etc, before the heat subsides. Once it cools down a bit, I think i'll be on another level.
Last "winter" I remember barely sweating on runs etc.. weather was good. I also ran 3 x half marathon distances. Right now i'm completely drenched after a mile or two and I wouldn't even contemplate running 13.1 miles. I've never been good in the heat so....
my calculations/predictions could be way off (i hope not) but I do like this low volume approach. I'm going to keep riding it until January .. I really think it's going to work REALLY GOOD.
plus if it works... achieving more with less will be quite an achievement imho.. I look at these runners putting in 70+, 100+, 140 miles per week and I definitely don't want to be that person. I'm trying to approach it more from a "less work more efficiency" perspective... I could be crazy though :f
pc!!!
i didnt sleep much more than a few hours .. they came in pretty early and that was the end of my restorative supplementation. Just did a strugglesome ohp workout where i did the slowest hardest to lock out triple ever .. i prob wud have given up on it but i didnt wanna in a public gym setting. 
nice!
