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also going back to some other theories: like not running every day. even when I heal up eventually (hopefully), I now plan to NOT run every day. instead, I plan to use more walking sessions, but incorporating the "overheat" technique AND combining that with "uphill" power walks. stuff like that is so effective. I can lose ~10 lb water weight and get my HR up into the 170's just by "bundling up" and WALKING uphill in the south florida heat humidity. it's crazy. you can feel immediate stamina/endurance improvements too. it feels like doing a long light run.

so i plan to utilize more stuff like that in the future, so that i'm not grinding away at the same motor patterns every day.

i'm just at one of those "reset moments". that's the only benefit to being injured (not catastrophic) - if we use it properly, it can give us the ability to take a step back and re-analyze everything, and address some weaknesses etc.

it also seems essential.. i mean if we have big goals, how do we remain focused and improve, while being injured & also not being able to train "most effectively"? have to figure something out. even if it doesn't improve/maintain fitness, if it helps improve something or give us a new tool, it can be very significant.

i'm also doing weird things with stretching now too (1-2 hour sessions). even with the injury to my right hip/glute/sacral spine, my hip/hamstring/glute flexibility is way better than it was pre-injury. my legs feel great on these light runs. feeling really loose. i just need the small injuries (tears/tendonitis/whatever) to disappear, then i'll feel great.

so this injury has caused me to:
1. do some extreme experimenting with my diet
2. do some semi-frequent extreme stretching

i'm doing stuff with stretching/mobility that would have wrecked me months ago.. and now it has no effect on me. it's kind of mind blowing.

have to be careful with that stuff for sure tho.. i try and stay very relaxed and just slowly melt into the stretches. everything is a "long hold".

I have a few stretches which "trigger" my right glute/hamstring injury (rope hamstring, standing single leg hamstring). I have a few positions which trigger my sacral spine injury (standing bent over double leg hamstring), and i have lots of little positions which trigger my right hip pain - which i've actually "attacked" and that's what's lead to some crazy hip mobility improvements.

in the end i'm hoping i've added new stuff to the arsenal. it'd suck to be permanently injured, but if my left glute/hamstring/sacral spine could "magically heal" out of nowhere, in literally one day, i'm holding out hope that my right can do the same.

I had made my right injuries disappear with some extreme stretching, but I re-aggravated it badly by doing the standing double leg bent over hamstring stretch. I think that's how I injured something in my sacral spine initially, by holding that position too long. Then I think there was a chain reaction of issues which just blew up after that. It all seems very related, it's very weird.

and here I can run 1 hour up and down a hill today in a great workout, but completely relaxed/not pushing it, and feel fine during the workout.. if I had pain during runs, I wouldn't run. so that's why these injuries are frustrating. If I go FAST, then ya I can feel stuff, so that's why I can't race etc.. but most of the "pain" I feel, is when i'm just moving around and bend over to pick up a dog toy to throw it etc. it's odd. I don't get how I can run like I do, pain free, and then do some simple stuff and it feels like my glute/hamstring is ripping. It's some weird shit.

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Quote from: adarqui on June 29, 2019, 11:24:23 pm

been doing weird stuff with my diet for the last month or more, which is making some of this stuff possible now.

Anything worth sharing?

not eating.

free agency is so exciting.

What a week.

Flew to the alps last Sunday, currently in the airport coming back.

Climbed two 4000m peaks, gran paradiso (highest entirely in Italy) and Mont Blanc (highest in the alps and western Europe at 4810m) via the Italian route (1800m in one go for summit day). We had dinner at 7pm in the hut, breakfast was served a few hours later at midnight and we left at 12.45 ( didn't sleep a second due to anticipation), climbed through the night with the sun coming up once we were well over 4000m. Summitted after around 6 hours and got back to the hut at around 10.30am the following day.

By far the hardest thing I have ever done both physically and mentally. On the summit push my legs were on fire, at that Altitude oxygen is 50% less so the body goes into anaerobic mode, full of lactate, gasping for air. Coming down was even worse, one of the hardest things was having to focus so intensely for such a long period of time on zero sleep, a wrong step could be the end.

God damn what a week.

damn dude that's nuts. those photos are incredible. i wasn't thinking about how hard it was when i saw them, sounds scary but what an experience.

glad Shelbo got beat today in the 1500m. her sit & kick style is awful.

hangs near the back of the pack until the last lap then goes hard the last 200m.

Sifan Hassan, gutsy 300m. man she gives everything. always completely spent by the end.

Cheruiyot wins the bowerman mile. Great finish to that race.

Coleman, 9.70 100m.

lol @ people thinking Norman was going to break the 400m WR today, gtfo. people are nuts. he ran like 44.60. How's he going to break the WR without people helping him (ie a crazy fast race). Just don't see it happening unless he's pushed.

Castor 1:55 800m.

Emma with another huge 2nd place in the 300m steeple.

Centro shred.