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At 27 I should be at the peak of my athletic abilities but poor lifestyle choices along with relatively poor strength levels have avoided me from doing so (as well as not training for sprinting at all apart from a couple of months in 2013 where I ran a 11.37 before tearing my hamstring). My motivation is that a lot of 100m sprinters run PRs in their early-mid 30's.

My old coach was convinced that, in a vacuum, all sprinters would hit their PR between 30-32 after 10-15 years of training. There probably isn't a significant loss of fast twitch capabilities until much older. The trouble is that most sprinters quit between age 21-25 due to lack of opportunities/enjoyment, or have bad injuries and lose blocks of training. So yeah, plenty of time left for you mate. If you can master the technique of surreptitiously nursing a beer at a pub, you'll be golden.

lmfao. wreckage.

http://www.splitsecondtiming.com/results/2017/tamarac2017.php

top 3 = 16:32, 16:39, 16:43

two "old dudes" finished top 2.. beasts.



https://www.strava.com/activities/1287198087

Tamarac Turkey Trot 5k: stomach cramp life, wrecked. official = 19:17 I think? watch = 19:08, other than stomach - body/legs felt GREAT

was cramping up during light warmup strides, never a good sign. sucks. For the next race on Saturday, i'm going to try a new nutritional strategy: very light eating the day before, and only coffee the morning of.. Need to figure this shit out.

Last 5k race, where I got 17:51 watch, I felt my stomach acting up before the race, but didn't cramp. So I lucked out there. BUT, having that same bubbly feeling in my stomach two races in a row, seems i'm doing something to aggravate it.

all good. don't give a fuck. need to figure out how to make my stomach feel very flat, with nothing in it, yet still strong. Going to try to achieve that on Saturday, which is another fast 5k.


edit: for reference, 1k split was ~5:18 pace. Solid 1k.





edit: never posted my data!!

Are you guys chasing that banana guy or is that banana guy the pace maker 

Damn. My stomach keeps getting worse, not better. This is kind of weird.

Quote from: adarqui on November 23, 2017, 03:09:07 pm

found a clip online, this is ~300m into the race maybe.

Leading the pack 

Hah yup. Lead for like 0.8.. had 3 people try to overrtake me and lead, including a former olympian lol, but did what i planned on amd surged out in front of them back into the front. Then system failure.

I love this surge style, it's pretty fun.

Stomach is alot better this morning, but I still feel like shit. Yesterday was very scary.

skipping 11/23, wrecked.

11/24/2017

bw = ?138?
bw before bed last night = ?
soreness = none
aches/injuries = none
cramping = none
morning quad flexibility = loose
morning hamstring flexibility = loose
morning calf flexibility = moderate
feel = dead (body/stomach)

wakeup = 7:30 AM

log:
07:30 AM: food: coconut water w/ pulp, chocolate muffin from whole foods
- stomach felt nasty
10:00 AM: workout: bw
- 3-5sec dead hang ng pullups: BW x 8
- full dips: BW x 10
11:00 AM: food: whole foods: orange chicken, yellow rice + chicken, veggie fried rice, 5 fried yucca, sweet green tea
- decent sized plate
02:00 PM: food: water w/ 1 whole lemon
03:00 PM: nap: 2 hours
05:15 PM: food: heated up black tea with almond milk / 3 tspn cane sugar / pink sea salt / black pepper
- settled my stomach quite a bit
06:30 PM: leg drain: 20 minutes
07:00 PM: food: heated up black tea with almond milk / 3 tspn cane sugar / pink sea salt / black pepper
07:30 PM: contrast shower
08:00 PM: stretch: everything light
10:00 PM: food: water w/ 1 whole lemon, almond milk


stretch:
08:00 PM: stretch: everything light

icing:

self massage:
leg drain:
06:30 PM: leg drain: 20 minutes

contrast showers:
07:30 PM: contrast shower

naps:
03:00 PM: nap: 2 hours

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Monthly Tracker: 2017

November (11) 2017

TODO:

Bodyweight: [(01,139),(02,138),(03,140),(04,140),(05,139),(06,140),(07,140),(08,138),(09,138),(10,140),(11,140),(12,139),(13,139),(14,138),(15,137),(16,137),(17,138),(18,139),(19,137),(20,138),(21,139),(22,138),(23,138),(24,?138?)]
- FORMAT: (day, weight in lbs)

Total Jumps per leg: []
- FORMAT: (day, # of jumps per leg)
- per leg total:

Max SLRVJ Touch: []
- FORMAT: (day, touch height in ft'inches")
- L-SLRVJ:
- R-SLRVJ:

Total speed interval distance: []
- FORMAT: (day, total speed interval distance in meters)
- total:

Max run speed (mph)/pace (min/mi): [(01,15.8,3:40),(07,14.8,4:12),(10,15.8,3:40),(12,13.7,4:20),(15,14.3,4:12),(20,16.6,3:30?)]
- FORMAT: (day, mph max, pace max in minutes per mile)

Resting HR: []
- FORMAT: (day, minutes for this test, average hr, minimum hr)

PR's: [(18,"official 5k (18:05), watch 5k (17:51), 3 x sub 6 splits, cooper's (2.10), 3 mile (17:18))]

Races: [(04,5k,18:52,18:37),(18,5k,18:05,17:51),(23,5k,19:17,19:08)]
- FORMAT: (day, distance, official, watch)

Soreness: [(01,"none"),(02,"hamstrings slightly, quads moderately, shoulders moderately"),(03,"hamstrings slightly, quads moderately, shoulders moderately, calves slightly"),(04,"quads barely, calves barely"),(05,"quads barely, calves barely"),(06,"none"),(07,"none"),(08,"calves slightly"),(09,"none"),(10,"calves barely"),(11,"quads slightly as the day went on, hamstrings slightly as the day went on"),(12,"quads slightly"),(13,"quads slightly"),(14,"none"),(15,"none"),(16,"none"),(17,"none"),(18,"none"),(19,"none"),(20,"none"),(21,"none"),(22,"none")]
- FORMAT: (day, overall soreness, specifics)

Aches/Injuries: [(01,"none"),(02,"left hamstring tendon slightly, right back of knee slightly, left heel slightly"),(03,"left hamstring tendon slightly, right back of knee slightly, left heel slightly"),(04,"none"),(05,"left ankle slightly (weird prickly thing on my left ankle, feels skin related, very odd)"),(06,"none"),(07,"none"),(08,"right foot slightly"),(09,"right foot slightly"),(10,"none"),(11,"none"),(12,"none"),(13,"left calf slightly"),(14,"none"),(15,"none"),(16,"none"),(17,"right shin/foot slightly, right calf slightly, right hamstring tendon slightly, right illiac crest slightly, feet slightly from walking around out back barefoot too long"),(18,"none"),(19,"top of left foot slightly, right tib ant & left ham tendon as the day went on"),(20,"left hamstring tendon"),(21,"none"),(22,"ankles/achilles somewhat - random achy")]
- FORMAT: (day, specifics)

Morning Quad Flexibility: [(01,"loose"),(02,"tight"),(03,"tight"),(04,"loose"),(05,"loose"),(06,"loose"),(07,"loose"),(08,"loose"),(09,"loose"),(10,"loose"),(11,"tight"),(12,"tight"),(13,"loose"),(14,"loose"),(15,"loose"),(16,"loose"),(17,"loose"),(18,"loose"),(19,"loose"),(20,"loose"),(21,"loose"),(22,"loose")]
- FORMAT: (day, general flexibility)

Morning Hamstring Flexibility: [(01,"loose"),(02,"tight"),(03,"tight"),(04,"loose"),(05,"loose"),(06,"loose"),(07,"loose"),(08,"loose"),(09,"loose"),(10,"loose"),(11,"tight"),(12,"loose"),(13,"loose"),(14,"loose"),(15,"loose"),(16,"loose"),(17,"loose"),(18,"loose"),(19,"loose"),(20,"loose"),(21,"loose"),(22,"loose")]
- FORMAT: (day, general flexibility)

Morning Calf Flexibility: [(01,"loose"),(02,"tight"),(03,"tight"),(04,"loose"),(05,"loose"),(06,"loose"),(07,"loose"),(08,"loose"),(09,"loose"),(10,"loose"),(11,"tight"),(12,"loose"),(13,"loose"),(14,"loose"),(15,"loose"),(16,"loose"),(17,"tight"),(18,"loose"),(19,"loose"),(20,"loose"),(21,"tight"),(22,"moderate")]
- FORMAT: (day, general flexibility)

Self Massage: []
- FORMAT: (day, area)

Cramping: [(01,"stomach + abdominal during morning 1 mile interval, after 2 mile interval"),(03,"very slight at the end of my morning run"),(12,"slight cramp after my 2nd 400, during my evening light long run - MAJOR"),(20,"very slight during my last 800"),(23,"major during 5k race")]
- FORMAT: (day, symptom)

Wakeup: [(01,06:50 AM,9.5),(02,06:00AM,8),(03,06:00AM,7),(04,05:00AM,7),(05,06:00AM,8),(06,05:30AM,7.5),(07,05:30AM,7.5),(08,05:30AM,7),(09,05:30AM,7),(10,05:30AM,7.5),(11,05:00AM,7),(12,05:30AM,7),(13,07:00AM,8),(14,05:30AM,7.5),(15,05:30AM,7),(16,05:15AM,7),(17,08:00AM,10),(18,05:00AM,7),(19,05:00AM,6),(20,05:00AM,7.5),(21,05:30AM,7),(22,07:00AM,8.5),(23,05:00AM,6.5),(24,07:30AM,7)]
- FORMAT: (day, wakeup time, hours slept)

weird about stomach. have you thought about talking to a dietician? you're freestyling these adjustments. pro might be able to get some explanation for what types of foods make you feel good and bad and give you a little more structure.

Thanks for the suggestion and ya I have been thinking about that actually. I need to pull the trigger on it maybe towards the end of December or in January etc.

I haven't started researching who to talk to, but I need to find someone who has lots of experience with runners.

Definitely weird about the stomach. Yesterday & last night, I felt like I was going to throw up - often. And my stomach was bloated to fu*k.

Today after both meals (light breakfast & moderate lunch), felt "throw up ish" afterwards. The thing that helped the most today, has been that tea concoction I drank a little bit ago. That had a substantial impact on my stomach, it's interesting.

As for today's freestyle, it's more of a "let's just try not eating as much" approach. Man I really do eat alot, even though i'm so light. If you think about what I ate on Wednesday, prior to Thursday's race, it really is a fuckton of food. So today's approach is to do pretty much the opposite of that, hardly any food, so that in the morning my stomach feels very "flat" and basically empty.

I'm lying down right now as I type this. Last night, while lying down, my stomach was very bloated where, you could see it popping through my shirt and just touching it, it felt "hard". Right now, my stomach is flat and mushy. I can just poke it and it's mushy, compared to feeling like a basketball yesterday/last night.

That kind of sh*t is crazy to me.. and it's such a major issue that I need to figure out.

This experiment i'm doing for tomorrow's race, might not end well, because i'm already wrecked from Thursday. So it's not a true experiment because there's definitely some residual damage from Thursday's melt down. However, if my stomach is flat, empty, and 1) doesn't cramp and 2) doesn't sound like it has fluid jiggling around in it when i'm warming up/running, i'll take that as a success for now.

So in a nutshell, experiment = the day before & the morning before a race, very light eating. Let's not have lots of digestive processes going on in there, or lots of food/fluid/stomach acids in there.

peace!!