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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 28, 2023, 06:43:16 pm »
- run 35:28, 6.51 km
legs felt like wet concrete.
legs felt like wet concrete.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 27, 2023, 10:48:29 am »
yesterday
- run 51:43, 9.76 km
ran the three km of continuous uphill in the park around 4:55 pace, just for fun. obviously rest of run was more relaxed. watch says HR averaged 180 for the whole run, which seems improbable.
- run 51:43, 9.76 km
ran the three km of continuous uphill in the park around 4:55 pace, just for fun. obviously rest of run was more relaxed. watch says HR averaged 180 for the whole run, which seems improbable.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 26, 2023, 10:21:02 am »
i mean, overall cost of living is probably much higher where i live than where you live, so i'd expect some gap in cost. but still, $200 is highway robbery.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 25, 2023, 11:09:26 am »
went to charlotte last weekend to visit my grandmother, didn't end up running at all. motivation has cratered since we decided that my fiancée was set back too far by her illness to make the 50 miler possible. i'm not interested in training for it by myself, part of the point was to spend all those training hours running together and she's only barely able to do slow 5ks right now, which is barely more than a brisk walk for me. i need a new race, or maybe to switch focus for a while. wish there were a gym in my neighborhood that didn't cost $200/month.
monday
- run 37:38, 5.83 km
glacial until the final half km or so, when i kicked it up to around half marathon pace (~4:19).
monday
- run 37:38, 5.83 km
glacial until the final half km or so, when i kicked it up to around half marathon pace (~4:19).
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 17, 2023, 08:36:33 pm »
- run 42:03, 7.56 km
felt weirdly sluggish, pace reflects that. not sure why, maybe didn't eat enough yesterday?
felt weirdly sluggish, pace reflects that. not sure why, maybe didn't eat enough yesterday?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 15, 2023, 07:07:12 pm »
- run 1:32:54, 16.36 km
not long enough to be a real training run. on the bright side, it's nice that i'm in good enough shape that a ten mile run is flat-out easy for me now. it should be, i kept pace down and watch HR reading averaged 130. but it felt short and i have no fatigue.
not long enough to be a real training run. on the bright side, it's nice that i'm in good enough shape that a ten mile run is flat-out easy for me now. it should be, i kept pace down and watch HR reading averaged 130. but it felt short and i have no fatigue.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 13, 2023, 04:59:16 pm »
just need adarq to get back on youtube with his bowie knife, keep everyone hyped up 
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 13, 2023, 01:09:10 pm »
i'm sure you would, you were always a much better leaper than i am. no idea about kcal intake, i haven't tracked it in a long time. i have no trouble maintaining a constant bodyweight and bf%. i have had to put some effort into planning for and bringing enough calories with me on long runs, which is a work in progress. i am a little lighter and less muscular than my internal idea of an "ideal" body for myself - although my soon-to-be-wife disagrees 
- so someday i'll get back on the lifting train and probably have to put some thought into diet again. for now, cruising.
- so someday i'll get back on the lifting train and probably have to put some thought into diet again. for now, cruising.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 12, 2023, 08:11:42 pm »
- intervals
-- warm up
-- 2 x (8 x 1 min 4:00-4:10 pace, 1 min slow jog) w/ 5 min jog between sets
-- cool down
a little faster than last time, still not hard to finish. was covering about 240-250m per interval but sped up just a bit for the last one and covered 280m. will keep ratcheting down the target pace a little at a time.
-- warm up
-- 2 x (8 x 1 min 4:00-4:10 pace, 1 min slow jog) w/ 5 min jog between sets
-- cool down
a little faster than last time, still not hard to finish. was covering about 240-250m per interval but sped up just a bit for the last one and covered 280m. will keep ratcheting down the target pace a little at a time.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 12, 2023, 09:14:36 am »
yesterday
- run 47:26, 9.24 km
cruising
- run 47:26, 9.24 km
cruising
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Loopie's Log
« on: October 11, 2023, 10:38:40 am »
digging ditches just for fun?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: October 11, 2023, 10:37:52 am »
pretty strong! why'd you stop squatting?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 10, 2023, 03:43:16 pm »
~170 pounds/77 kg, i think. maybe a little less.
also, to answer the question you asked vag in his journal: for now i'm completely on the running train. but i'll get tired of it eventually and need to change things up, and at that point i think the likeliest thing will be to shift back toward a focus on strength and explosiveness. i don't think i'll ever dunk again -- i'm 36 and only ever managed to do it, like, twice, at the peak of my original dunk journey seven (!) years ago -- but it'd be nice to get back to being able to grab rim at will, at least. and squat 2x bw again.
incidentally, this journal turned 14 years old last month.
also, to answer the question you asked vag in his journal: for now i'm completely on the running train. but i'll get tired of it eventually and need to change things up, and at that point i think the likeliest thing will be to shift back toward a focus on strength and explosiveness. i don't think i'll ever dunk again -- i'm 36 and only ever managed to do it, like, twice, at the peak of my original dunk journey seven (!) years ago -- but it'd be nice to get back to being able to grab rim at will, at least. and squat 2x bw again.
incidentally, this journal turned 14 years old last month.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 10, 2023, 10:23:03 am »
back in DC as of yesterday evening. what a weekend.
- run 8:00, 1.27 km
started to get a hint of that weird posterior left knee thing i developed in BA back in august. maybe it has something to do with trying to run so soon after getting off a long flight. cut myself off this time instead of trying to push through and see if it would go away.
- run 8:00, 1.27 km
started to get a hint of that weird posterior left knee thing i developed in BA back in august. maybe it has something to do with trying to run so soon after getting off a long flight. cut myself off this time instead of trying to push through and see if it would go away.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: October 09, 2023, 02:58:45 am »
hello from denmark. week ended in an unexpected way: my fiancée called me on friday morning from copenhagen, in tears, asking me to call a doctor to her hotel room. she'd had a recurrence of the gastritis that knocked her out for two weeks in july 2022 and was freaking out. she ended up in the hospital, and i ended up on a plane over here to take care of her until she's well enough to travel. we're flying back today, so that's good. but anyway running plans (all plans) got disrupted. i did manage to get a treadmill workout in yesterday, which felt great.
- mixed tempo
-- warm up
-- 5 x (2 min @15kph, 2 min @9kph)
-- 10 min @ 14 kph
-- cool down
- GMB warm-up sequence
basic calisthenics to loosen up joints. got to commit to doing at least this every day.
- mixed tempo
-- warm up
-- 5 x (2 min @15kph, 2 min @9kph)
-- 10 min @ 14 kph
-- cool down
- GMB warm-up sequence
basic calisthenics to loosen up joints. got to commit to doing at least this every day.