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migraine started friday night and is just now starting to dissipate close to midday on sunday. not an auspicious first week for my 50-miler build.

update: or second week, obviously. woke up this morning without a headache for the first time since last friday. will go for a cautious run later, probably inside because it's hot today and that just seems like asking for trouble.

btw @joe, i watched a short from will o'connor where he talks about how easy it is for a run with hills on it to slip out of zone 2 when you're climbing, even if HR doesn't change. apparently, if you're aerobically fit enough, you can buffer the extra costs of running uphill for a little while (i guess longer and/or steeper the fitter you are) without it affecting HR. an argument in your favor against relying on HR as the primary metric. seems like you can kinda fudge a power-based workout with just the watch but to do it right you have to get a stryd pod. oh boy, more gear... i'll probably stick with HR as the main thing and use pace for intervals.

was starting to get a little headache on the left posterior side of my head yesterday evening and woke up with it having intensified. it isn't as bad as the migraine was so i managed to drag myself out for a run, hoping that i'd loosen up and it'd go away. partial success. very frustrating.

- run 56:06, 10.00 km
cool but humidity extremely high

ended up being quite out of it all day yesterday as well, although the debilitating headache part was over by around 11 AM. i wonder if i've been having more-frequent migraines than i thought, i.e., if some of the prolonged, debilitating headaches i get every couple of months (or maybe every three? or four? idk, i wish i'd been keeping better track) and have thought of as "tension" headaches have been migraines this whole time. the "tension headache" idea goes back to the ER doctor i saw in london back in 2019, who prescribed a self-massage machine for me to use on my shoulders and upper back. i do carry tension there, and while self-massage sometimes helps during headaches it doesn't make them go away. and it made sense to think of the two types of headaches as different, because i also, more rarely, get an aura followed by a *much* more severe headache and vomiting. that type is a very classic, unmistakable migraine.

a bit of searching around online finds stress and "intense emotions" as a common trigger. i was furious on friday about something at work - the way one of my colleagues had treated another, closer colleague - and that on top of the stress of having so much family in the house for the prior week-plus might well be what set it off. in the past i have definitely associated the kind of headache i had this weekend with accumulated, sublimated stress. tension headaches are also apparently usually bilateral, and mine are almost always focused on one side, usually in the temple and behind my eye, and usually but not always on the right.

requested an appointment with a neurologist at the same hospital my GP works out of, hope i can get in soon and find out more.

that sounds similar to what i experienced back in feb when i ran 14 miles on a clicking knee. it did go away, but i'm worried it's gonna come back now that the clicking is back.

big ups on the exercise streak, got a long way to go to get to kingfish status.

Quote from: LBSS on June 04, 2025, 09:20:18 am

Quote from: Kingfish on June 02, 2025, 10:45:53 am

just weak.

it's allllllll relative. you're still a man in his mid-40s pause squatting 2x bw every day.

  thank you for the motivation. i'm so close to calling it done already and be back to were to all started - high volume cardio. this time, not fast running/distance goals but  steady 3mph/12-15% for 30min+ for longevity.

i mean, plenty of space for you over here in zone 2. but i think you've got a good thing going. can you still dunk from a standstill?

- run 54:54, 10.00 km
humidity 88%, dew point 70, so even though it's warm rather than hot, the air is thick.

- run 1:25:01, 15.36 km
not as hot as yesterday but still pretty humid.

- run 37:46, 6.79km, strides 4 x 100m w/ walking rest
strides in 16-17s. again, pondering the gap between me and cole hocker is just hilarious. my stride pace today translates to a 4:30 mile.