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well.. time to shut down running for a week or two. my left calf & hamstring / hamstring tendon are jacked up.

woke up at 6 AM today, felt great. ate, got out of the house around 7. Did several warmup  runs/sprints on the way to the track. Felt really good but did feel my hamstring tendon slightly; it came and went. So that warmup was ~4 mi, in exactly an hour. I'm wondering if that 1 hour of walking with a few light sprints mixed in, was enough to cause my hamstring/calf to fatigue/tighten... if so, very odd. I mean I felt fine, 1 hour of "travel" doesn't bother me at all.

anyway, began track workout, this time starting with a slow 400 instead of fast.. so alternating slow/fast/slow/fast/... I figured the slow run would be good to gauge my hamstring/calf. Interestingly, on the first slow lap, I felt my left calf tightening.. and this is using my simple heel->toe form that I can run forever on. It got progressively worse each lap until finally I ran really slow for 1 mile (mile 4) to see if it would go away, and it didn't. So I stopped, which i'm really glad I did because my calf/hamstring might have exploded had I continued.

lame 

the sad thing is, I was running good and I was holding back quite a bit, worrying about my calf.

First fast 400m was ~5:25 (~11 mph) pace. I think it was ~1:20 for that lap.

mile splits (min/mi): today vs last week
- mile 1: 6:11 vs 6:50
- mile 2: 6:46 vs 7:12
- mile 3: 7:08 vs 7:41
- mile 4: 8:25 vs 8:17
- mile 5:         vs 8:27

being wrecked, alternating slow/fast 400's, still ran a 21:08 5k... that's kind of cool. 

had I been able to run without worrying about my calf, was going to be a sick workout.. really sucks.

so anyway, it's definitely turned into a legit issue so.. going to shut down running for a week or two unfortunately.

the ~4 mi walk home was pretty brutal.. I couldn't run, even if I had to, to survive. I felt really injured. Calf/hamstring were very painful/jacked up. I feel alot better now, but stretching is painful, so not going to stretch if I feel any pain.

 



pc

looking bigger

edit: he enjoyed the pacquiao/mayweather jr fight.. nice. he's intelligent when it comes to the fight game.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOGVUX9W_M" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOGVUX9W_M</a>

so SKYR - Icelandic yoghurt just started being mass marketed in the UK, I basically lived off the stuff in iceland, it's amazing. Better than Greek, really thick and great flavours. And nearly 10g protein/100g, I had no trouble polishing off a 450g tub in one go.

nice!!

i should give this a try:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/sm%C3%A1ri-organic-icelandic-yogurt-strawberry

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAzBGFlj8De/?taken-by=toshikis160j200

Japanese Clarence 

beast

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQopJmQry4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQopJmQry4</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0n35UIv-s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0n35UIv-s</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6VFvMXCN4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6VFvMXCN4</a>

beast.

backward runs yesterday really made my hip flexors sore.



02/19/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 7 hr
wakeup = 7 AM
bw = 154 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = hip flexors, quads, feet
aches = left hamstring tendon (old injury, inflamed), right tennis elbow, bottoms of feet
injuries = toenails wrekt, right big toe blister
feel = good



Session: Morning

8 AM

walk: ~2 mi
- walk to hills

hill sprints:
- 3.14 mi in 46:03
- didn't keep count, but around ~42 hill sprints based on the watch data
- I was hoping to get the elevation of the various hills from my watch data, but unfortunately it doesn't show any elevation at all. really sucks. so no idea how big the hills are, but, they are big for a hill in florida.. maybe 75-100 yards worth of 30-45 degree incline.
- left calf got very tight around mile 2, so, knocked out one more mile then called it quits


walk: ~2 mi
- walked home BAREFOOT.. felt good. concrete sidewalk and some grass occasionally.
- crossing the street on the asphalt road was pretty painful though, def don't want to walk on asphalt
- i need to walk barefoot more often




Food

11 AM

- 1 x 2% milk
- 1 x water lemon



Food

3 PM & 5 PM

- 1 x water with lemon



Food

8 PM

- made a sorghum (india grain) dish with curry, grilled chicken, olives, red chili pepper, serrano pepper, garlic, olive oil, lemon, carrots
- some pistachios
- 1 x water with lemon

was so filling.. actually loved it.



Food

9:00 PM

- some ice cream
- 2 x wheat bread toasted, with peanutbutter
- 1 x 2% whole milk



legs felt good early today.. hill caused my left calf to lock up. going to take it easy tomorrow, then HOPEFULLY hit the track on Sunday.

i'm sore everywhere right now tho.. mainly hips/hip flexors.

pc

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DrQoqSYK4k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DrQoqSYK4k</a>

first proper 'winter' day in the british hills last year, vid from near the top. need higher and colder!

oh man... <3