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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 11, 2020, 12:15:36 pm »
truly, man. i a stable and patient person, it takes a lot to make me genuinely upset or to throw me out of my usual ability to take the long view and think about things clearly. but i'm not a robot, and the woman i thought, until very recently, i would marry is leaving me. i'm disoriented and caught up in minute-to-minute emotions. not that there is anything wrong with feeling feelings. but it's hard to remember to breathe and to wait, so reminders can help.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 10, 2020, 02:18:44 pm »
Quote from: vag on May 10, 2020, 05:23:22 am
Sorry to hear. One of the big 'jokes' here is that post-covid we will have a divorce pandemic.
Give yourself a few days to relax, for thoughts to settle, for intense emotions to weaken, for blood to cool. Then re-think everything. The more time passes, the more logic takes over.
I understand it is highly awkward doing all that while living together, if you can somehow detach yourself from being in there, travel elsewhere with your mind, maybe it would help.
2c

this is extremely sage advice. thanks vag.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 10, 2020, 04:09:46 am »
i mean definitely it would be nice to be there and i definitely will need some time to take it easy for a bit. but they're 3000 miles away and it'll cost me nearly a grand to get there. so don't want to rush into buying a ticket.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 09, 2020, 03:41:02 pm »
gf and i broke up. not sure what i'm gonna do about staying in london. obviously we'll have to move out of our place -- her first, since she has family to stay with -- but there's so much interesting work here, i was kind of looking forward to figuring out what to do next. on the other hand, the prospect of being totally alone in this apartment is pretty terrible. and paying london rent, trying to make london work for myself as a single person, with this goddamn pandemic on...i don't know. fucking covid. my impulse is to head back to my parents' place ASAP, but i don't have to decide anything right this second.

for the immediate term, we're stuck together. very uncomfortable situation.

deep breaths.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 09, 2020, 08:26:15 am »
- warm up x 1 km

- running drills and mobilizations

- interval 400m in [89,90,88,91,85,89,91,89] w/200m jogging rest
a second or two slower than a couple weeks ago. perhaps just because mileage over the last week or so was higher?

- cool down x 1.7 km

- stretch

weekly mileage 49.2 km. i've been increasing week by week for a solid month now, might let it drop back down a bit in the coming week before getting up over the goal benchmark of 50 km/week.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Goal: 40in svj, 44in rvj, sub 5 sec 40yrd dash
« on: May 08, 2020, 08:39:52 am »
^^^ i'm beginning to wonder if he's paying y'all to advertise to the very, very tiny market on here  :P

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: New year new me
« on: May 08, 2020, 05:17:37 am »
bump, how you holding up?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 07, 2020, 03:52:37 am »
yesterday

- run 9.15 km in 49:12
first 3 km and last 1 km with gf (last 1 km partly walked). middle 5 km pace was 4:45, but obviously overall very slow.

- stretch

today

- run 8.76 km in 43:04
legs a bit tired (which makes sense) but lungs felt good. seven-day total 59.7 km because of two three-day stretches as i get back on schedule. on track for ~48 km this calendar week and then from next week i'll settle right around 50+.

- stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: May 06, 2020, 05:45:30 am »
for poor man's GHR you can also use a thick yoga mat, folded up, or couch cushions.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 05, 2020, 01:04:20 pm »
- run 10.13 km in 49:01
somehow wind was in my face for the first 4 km and the last 4 km, despite them being in almost opposite directions. lol.

- stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 05, 2020, 08:24:29 am »
too much intense stuff -- especially medium-intensity -- was also a mistake i made earlier on. i was doing 4 km runs at 4:45 pace, which at the time was too quick to be aerobic, too short to built much strength, and too slow to make me faster or build lactic tolerance.

as lyle mcdonald says: keep the hard days hard and the easy days easy.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: May 04, 2020, 04:52:56 pm »
FWIW i am working toward this (see my signature):

sunday: long and slow
monday: rest
tuesday: medium
wednesday: medium
thursday: medium
friday: rest
saturday: speed/tempo

if you can do a six-day rotation and keep track of it, go for it. but i've always found rotations based on anything other than a calendar week are impossible to stay on top of for very long.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 04, 2020, 11:21:38 am »
FWIW this is the pace calculator i use: https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a761676/rws-training-pace-calculator/

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Goal: 40in svj, 44in rvj, sub 5 sec 40yrd dash
« on: May 04, 2020, 03:20:54 am »
damn dude, sorry to hear you're in such tough straits.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: May 03, 2020, 08:39:50 am »
- run 13.71 km in 1:13:03

- stretch

a little shorter than i meant to go but legs were tired. also quite slow (~5:20), due to tiredness and frequently getting lost and having to reorient. new route, with gf on bike, up into a park that we hadn't been to before that's criss-crossed by lots of paths of varying post-rain navigability. was lovely to be in the woods, though.

ETA: 7-day mileage total 55.9 km, which if not a PR for that span is at least top two or three.

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