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i'm also tempted, whenever i leave this country and am back in a place with basketball courts. wonder how much i've lost. presumably a lot.
i'd love to be in.. but i think i'm out. lol.
i love the idea of a 2019 vert comp thread tho. a competitive thread is a great.
Mate I reckon a couple of sneaky jumps would see you do quite well...
tbh, i bet it would. that's what's crazy. all of this running has me feeling so springy/powerful. sometimes i jump up onto the curb and such, or over a small railing, or over that snake several months ago (lol), and i feel so good, almost dunk level. obviously don't have that peak power anymore, but running has definitely kept that spring going. getting some of that jump specific power back would just require actual jump sessions. would be cool to do long light runs with "strides" but instead, jumps. imagine slow quarter mile recovery laps with a L-SLRVJ every lap, going at a vertec (that sounds pretty fun lmao). all of this sounds kind of "steepler" ish.
for a while now, i've been interested in potentially jumping on grass..i wouldn't jump on hard courts anymore, or even indoor gyms. but i really do love springy grass. would be cool to buy a vertec and get some jumps in eventually. dragging it out there would suck tho. hah.
for now, i'll just spectate.
#2019vertcomp !!
Just out of interests sake maybe do a few tests. Once a month or something. Just to see where you are?
A few things i wanted to put into a separate post. Cadence. Cadence. Cadence!
Forget running for a second. I have really terrible cadence even for walking, I realised tonight. And ive always marvelled watching pros playing in the NBA, why their feet move so quickly when they're just doing normal movements around hte court. Bad cadence it turns out (from what i've been reading) plays a huge part in injury causation and good cadence helps to prevent injury. Something about taking the load of the joints and putting it more on the muscular system. After my first bball session in 6 months or so last weekend i felt my body was beaten up pretty good. Not as bad as it used to be in the past on the first game back mind you but still very noticeably.
But putting one and two together .. when playing pickup tonight i focused on cadence and just moving my feet quicker. They say you should think high knees .. and it felt comical at first but i could see it working.. i took my watch off and i doubt it cud track basketball anyway but now i wish i had some kind of footpod to track cadence just to see measurable improvements over time. The really interesting tho was afterwards i didn't feel beat up as i would normally .. and it's still just my 3rd session of the season so it's not like ive adapted to basketball already, just cadence seems to have helped a ton.
So im going to try to make some changes .. like walking out of the basketball court my normal cadence is so slow and leisurely but if i actively try to improve it then i scuttle along more purposely. I would like to see how that translates to basketball over time. I would like to see how it translates to life in general. Maybe it's the simple changes we make which have the most benefit.
I worry if lots of slow running is not just making me even slower as an athlete.
When i look down and see how my feet are moving glacially it just seems weird af ha..
i feel like im some old man jogger.
lol. But signs are promising i felt kinda quick in my first basketball session of the season last friday.
When I was last really active on here you were smashing 5ks. Now you're smashing running ultras!!
yea. definitely pretty cool!
now i'm looking for more potential ultras..QuoteThat's so awesome man. Certainly inspiring my new found love for running.
awesome man!
yea I remember you enjoyed it (trails etc), but IIRC also had some feet/calf issues as well?
i imagine trail running & even trail racing would be something you'd love.
with ultras especially, it seems like with such a crazy long race at a slower pace, might allow you to really take in the scenery/nature etc. that sounds pretty fun. not advising this for you at this point, just saying in general. marathon & shorter are fast, hard to really absorb if you're pushing it, at least from my experience. still very fun tho.
great to see that you're getting back into stuff!
peace!
You should definitely go for it, you clearly have a real talent for long endurance both from a physical and mental point of view.
Did you do anything specifically to slip into that mind set of being able to run for that long, like any psychological tips you used, meditation etc... Or did it just come kinda naturally?
I do really love trails and the scenery, there's something liberating about flying through nature so yeah, it definitely appeals. It is something I kind of have on my radar for some day, I'm still only like 24 so I'm not gonna rush into them but I'd love to do one one day. I have some plans this summer to run some of the mountains in the UK with some friends so that would be a nice intro into the longer distances.
The mental aspect of it appeals, even with the 10ks the kind of meditative state you go into is so enjoyable and I imagine with ultras it gets pretty intense. My supervisor through university was into ultras, think he did some pretty big ones like tour de mont blanc and he'd talk about the mental aspects of it.
Something I've always noticed about ultra is there's always a few jacked guys, likw the guy in that photo. What's behind that? Is it just because it's not so.. Max speed dependent? I feel like we may have talked about this before in fact haha.
Sorry that kinda turned into a long post!
i'd love to be in.. but i think i'm out. lol.
i love the idea of a 2019 vert comp thread tho. a competitive thread is a great.
Mate I reckon a couple of sneaky jumps would see you do quite well...
i wouldn't jump on hard courts anymore, or even indoor gyms. but i really do love springy grass. would be cool to buy a vertec and get some jumps in eventually. dragging it out there would suck tho. hah.
I'm in, haven't broken 32" in 6 months tho so wont be threatening anyone here. But love a good comp. Maybe we should have a hashtag and we can post updates on insta?
When I was last really active on here you were smashing 5ks. Now you're smashing running ultras!!
That's so awesome man. Certainly inspiring my new found love for running.
oooh.. some ultra stats.
https://ultrarunning.com/featured/ultrarunning-magazine-all-time-lists/
50 miles in under 5h etc.. damn!
the 24-hour world best is fucked up. translates to 4:46/7:40 pace; assuming the guy took some breaks then his average moving pace was faster than that. for 24 hours.
easily one of the great moments in adarq.org history.
and, i told you so.
ETA: a 3:30 marathon in the course of doing 42 miles is just incredible.
i think you're making a mistake that a lot of people do, myself included, which is assuming too direct a correlation between two different data points. you think "basketball is played at 160-180 bpm, jogging gets me to 140 bpm, therefore maybe jogging isn't an optimal way to train for basketball." but jogging and basketball are different activities, and jogging can absolutely help build physical capacities that improve your ability to do specific training for and to play basketball. it's GPP. same as squatting: there isn't a 1:1 relationship between squatting and basketball ability, to claim one would be silly. but getting a bigger squat has carryover into speed and jumping and boxing people out. jogging has carryover into not getting winded as easily during gameplay.
i'll stop just short of calling it nonsensical tho.
