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race day, again!

felt good waking up, but heavy. didn't weigh myself, was probably like 148 or something (retaining alot of water/food etc).

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That milkshake was SO. DAMN. GOOD. especially after a 3 hour run. One of the best things about running for such a long time, is the sugar flood afterwards.. everything tastes incredible.

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05/13/2018

bw = ?
bw before bed last night = ?
soreness = none
aches/injuries = right big toe barely
cramping = none
morning quad flexibility = loose
morning hamstring flexibility = loose
morning calf flexibility = loose
morning adductor flexibility = loose
feel = good/tired
hours sleep: 7

wakeup = 06:00 AM

data collected throughout the day when I have my watch on:
HR low: 41? after long run
HR high: 170's?

log:
06:10 AM: food: GU with 20mg caffeine, oatmeal + tons of pink salt + tons of honey, water
07:15+AM: ice cold water while warming up
07:30 AM: race: Mother's Day 5k: 3rd OA - 18:40 official (3.2mi) / 18:17 watch, felt great, died around 1.5 up the hill. weak!
08:30 AM: food: rxbar, water
09:20 AM: workout: after 5k race: 3 hours @ 19.2 miles on the hilly mulch trail ::: legs toast ::: OH, jumped over what looked to be a rattle snake!!
- GU @ ~10:45 AM?
12:00 PM: food: rxbar, water
12:30 PM: food: cold stone: oreo milkshake with whipped cream!
03:00 PM: food: banana, rxbar, coconut water
06:00 PM: food: mcdonald's LMAO - someone insisted I try their fresh beef quarterpounder because it's "amazing", so I did.. was ok lol.
09:00 PM: light stretch
09:30 PM: toasted sourdough avocado toast, water


workout: Mother's Day 5k: 3rd OA - 18:40 official (3.2mi) / 18:17 watch, felt great, died around 1.5 up the hill. weak!
- https://www.strava.com/activities/1569253376
- http://www.splitsecondtiming.com/results/2018/mother2018.php
- 3rd OA
- 18:40 official (3.2), 18:17 watch

felt really good in the first mile. actually tried reigning it back a bit. still hit 5:22/5:24 one of the two. tried holding back a bit in anticipation of the hill coming up @ 1.5 and I just got dropped. They went up pretty strong, and down very fast. I was basically toast at this point. lol.

Did this course a few months ago @ 18:05 official / 17:40ish watch. I crushed the hill that day. Only thing i'm annoyed with today is how sh*t I went up/down the hill







workout: after 5k race: 3 hours @ 19.2 miles on the hilly mulch trail ::: legs toast ::: OH, jumped over what looked to be a rattle snake!!
- https://www.strava.com/activities/1569903232

Saw a snake and freaked out & jumped over it, Then it scurried off. It was on the trail. Looked scary. hah.







^^ alot of loops.. lool!



resting tomorrow. tuesday is going to be hard speed. wed/thur = rest as well! friday = track meet, saturday = rest, sunday = mile race!!

nice.

Anyway, an exhausting workout but full of PRs again. Being a noob runner is cool, so easy and fast to improve!

yup! and being intermediate/advanced, harder to improve but SO MUCH stuff to improve. the amount of stuff you can attack/try to PR is endless.

damn CLE got owned.

don't expect that to happen in game 2 but, given how solid CLE was playing in TOR, major win for BOS, so dominant.

crazy how Solinsky only has one entry on the top100 for US Men's 10k, yet he set an American Record that day:

https://www.iaaf.org/records/all-time-toplists/middlelong/10000-metres/outdoor/men/senior?regionType=countries&region=usa&page=1&bestResultsOnly=false&firstDay=1899-12-31&lastDay=2018-05-12

all time men's marathon list:

https://www.iaaf.org/records/all-time-toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior

can go through the other events easily as well.

by country (US):

https://www.iaaf.org/records/all-time-toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior?regionType=countries&region=usa&drop=regular&fiftyPercentRule=regular&page=1&bestResultsOnly=false&firstDay=1899-12-31&lastDay=2018-05-12

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzljrUrwKE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzljrUrwKE</a>

thanks adarq! didn't go quite as well as i'd hoped but i'm so happy right now. just proud of myself for following through under the circumstances.

- warm up slow jog 1.5 km, strides

- race 5k in 20:49 (watch)

- cool down slow jog 1 km

- stretch

weather was good: overcast and mid-60s although very humid. it rained all night and stopped just in time for the sign-in period to start. smallish race, i'd guess around 100 or maybe 150 people, and i started right at the front. i went out much too fast, 3:39 for the first kilometer, although the leaders shot out in front and i did not try to keep up. faster race than last year. course was hilly the entire time, very few flat stretches. second km was 4:07, then 4:11, then 4:22 and 4:22. managed a wee little kick for the last 50-75m but i had a headache for the final 1+ km. that was a bit of a drag. the winner finished in 18:24, i think i was fifth or sixth.

disappointed that i didn't go faster but i didn't hold back much. need to figure out what to do to avoid headache because in retrospect my legs had more to give, especially in the last km. what a great learning experience, felt very happy as soon as i'd cooled down and was hurting less.

awesome. seems like it went pretty well though, especially given the humidity and course, that's a solid time. 5th or 6th, dope!!! congrats!! great that you feel so happy about it afterwards.

really sucks about the headache though.. i feel similar when I cramp, just really bums me out.

I got owned by the humidity today too. it's rough.

how'd your mom do? she ran it too right?