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Quote from: LBSS on February 18, 2018, 11:36:56 pm

not as sore as i expected, mainly tib anteriors and peroneals. doing some foot-ankle-lower leg specific work would probably not hurt my running. more pirouettes, maybe some SL calf raises, some heel walking, and more mobility. shoulder feels good, which is (1) a surprise and (2) awesome.

also, my pulling last night was fucking awesome. helped that there was a light cross breeze but i coffin-cornered a couple of floaters and put everything high and more or less where i wanted. it's not like i was holding back too much for the shoulder's sake after i got warmed up. good sign. otherwise skills are rusty -- and as FP will tell you i was never a great player to begin with -- but my baseline is still much higher than anyone else who plays here. i love frisbee.

how would i tell anyone that lol, we havent ever played together. good to hear about the pulls, as the designated team puller i get streaks of 3-6 excellent ones followed by some bad ones. i pull exclusively IO tho which is known to less consistent

eh, i figure i can get a pretty good sense of how good someone is after drilling and throwing around with them for a while, which we have done. there are exceptions, of course -- i used to play rec with a longtime truck stop veteran who had competent but not spectacular throws and didn't look very fast, but was an animal as a d-line cutter and possession handler. never made mistakes, mental game was exceptional. but most of the time elite players are either notably fast and bouncy and/or have notably superior throws even warming up. there's a smoothness, consistency, whatever.

same with any sport. i once watched david nalbandian warm up from about 12 feet away and it was like, oh yeah he's doing a different thing than i'm doing when i hit a tennis ball around. the gap between me and an elite ultimate player is much narrower than the gap between me and david nalbandian, but it's still there and i feel like it was obvious when we threw around especially given how rusty i was. maybe i'm wrong.

anyway my point is i'm a decent but sub-elite ultimate player.

also my lower legs still hurt like the dickens today. DOMS blows.

ETA: yeah i was pulling flat, from the downwind side of the field. for whatever reason i was just nailing it. on reflection i think it might have helped that i was packing my shoulder more than usual and the compact motion gave me more control without sacrificing power. for years i modeled my pulling motion on will neff, who was the greatest puller i've ever seen -- once watched him get a callahan on a pull that he threw. but he's a tall, lanky, loose dude, and his shoulder came all the way out and around on the backswing. that might be what got me into trouble last august.

she should start a journal on here, i'm tryna see how much work that is. what's her training schedule look like?

not as sore as i expected, mainly tib anteriors and peroneals. doing some foot-ankle-lower leg specific work would probably not hurt my running. more pirouettes, maybe some SL calf raises, some heel walking, and more mobility. shoulder feels good, which is (1) a surprise and (2) awesome.

also, my pulling last night was fucking awesome. helped that there was a light cross breeze but i coffin-cornered a couple of floaters and put everything high and more or less where i wanted. it's not like i was holding back too much for the shoulder's sake after i got warmed up. good sign. otherwise skills are rusty -- and as FP will tell you i was never a great player to begin with -- but my baseline is still much higher than anyone else who plays here. i love frisbee.

- frisbee x 2 hours
soooo fun. a little sore in the shoulders back and hamstrings from yoga but warmed up nice. shoulder prob 85-90%. we'll see how it does tomorrow. also fun discovery: i'm in good shape now. that is, recovery much quicker between points than i'm used to.

i'm gonna be sore tomorrow. will do a long and slow run.

- run 6.20 km in 29:07
4:41 pace. kicked a little at the end but not too hard. meant to do 7+ or 8 but got fucked up because they were blocking a road i run down because of VVIP travel. assholes.

- stretch

44.4 km in the last seven days. rest or maybe yoga/calisthenics tomorrow.

I feel like a Randy Moss quite here qualifies for LBJ.

"I play when I wanna play"

randy moss is one of my favorite athletes to watch, ever, in any sport. GOAT. and him saying this was a living argument for my hobby horse that criticizing super-elite athletes for not working harder is ludicrous. maybe he needed to smoke all that weed and take plays off to be the best or at worst second-best person to do his particular job in the history of that job, and if he'd worked harder or stayed clean he'd have burned out or got hurt or whatever.

hbd

morning

- run ~4 km in ??
struggled, mornings are hard. gotta reorient bedtime if i'm gonna start running in the morning before it gets hot out. forgot watch so not sure about time or exact distance but i did 4 km worth of laps at the track.

- stretch

will run again later.

EDIT: evening

- run 7.67 km in 36:53
4:48 pace. did not look at watch until the end. mostly kept it a shade above easy, picked it up to 4:05 or so for the last couple hundred meters just for funsies. slightly disappointed in the overall pace but that's okay.

- stretch

another note: the garmin forerunner 235 hr monitor is supposed to be unreliable, but it's interesting to look at the trendline on the run today: steadily up from 135 to 152 over the course of the run.