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rest.

felt good today.

well.. tomorrow i have a half marathon race. odds aren't in my favor that i'll be able to race the whole thing.. but who knows. we'll find out shortly. 6 AM race with a blood orange moon out, so if my hamstring is feeling ok i should run fast. i still feel like i'm in great shape. don't think i've lost much fitness at all.

i came in 3rd last year with 1:21-ish. it was one of my favorite races. i love all coral springs race, it's basically my back yard.

anyway. it's a race for people battling cancer etc.. so how I end up racing it, isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

also: this week & last week's race I signed up for several months ago.. so, if my hamstring re-tweaks tmw, I don't have any races i've signed up for. I hope it doesn't tweak.. if it tweaks, i'm stopping immediately, no problem. If it doesn't tweak, i'm running hard. simple formula.

03/22/2019
- sacral spine tender/achy (not as much as yesterday)
- legs felt really good all day

yo!

157 is a big jump, no?

been slowly drifting up for a while now. so nah, not a big jump. but def heavy for me.

last i remember you were in the 140s. was the gain on purpose?

ya 147-149 in December probably. slow drift upwards. too many milkshakes

nope not on purpose. I eat alot but usually my activity negates it. I've put in a ton of activity this year so, not sure why it's drifting up so consistently. I actually feel kinda "fat" right now. I mean compared to kenya-darq (139) and boxing/dunking physique.

i stopped looking at the scale a while ago .. only recently did it just because i felt heavy and wanted to see. Maybe not looking at the scale helps creep the weight up.

also i feel like there was a weight-surge after I started lunging. glutes/thighs def got bigger, but so did fat areas.

I like not looking at the scale, even if it potentially has some weight-related drawbacks. It's just another thing I don't want to obsess about.

I'm pretty sure those 10k PR's, 12k PR, and 12k+5k (total) happened w/ a bodyweight over 150. So i've been running ok with some more bodyweight on me. My 5k PR is still when I was 139-141 though (i forget, but it was low).

pc!

yesterday:

abort-but-finished another race.

3 out of the last 3 races have been wrecked.


body felt really banged up afterwards.

post-race shower was insanely painful (nip/chafe wreckage).


03/23/2019

diet:
- ate light
- body felt ok pre-race. 5 hours sleep. sacral spine achy.



06:00 AM: race abort + slow long run /// the wheelchair racer was *blind*: a guide behind her told her how to adjust, it was incredible
- https://www.strava.com/activities/2234072319
- https://www.endomondo.com/profile/26420622
- http://accuchip.racetecresults.com/Results.aspx?CId=16337&RId=280
- 6th OA @ 10km (with 4 pull-back miles)
- 42nd OA at the end
- lol.

left hamstring/glute/low back tweaked but not as bad as in the 5k 2 weeks ago, so some healing progress at least.
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mile 1 was actually pretty decent. then stuff slowly started tightening up until i had to pull back at mile 3 or so. then around mile 9 had to shut it way down.
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hard for me to actually care about my small injuries when this is a race for people battling cancer.
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all good.







felt really good the first mile.. a miracle looked like a possibility.

a few really fast people showed up. one of them pulled his hamstring in the first quarter mile, sucks. watched him start falling apart and then shut it down and go to the ground and start stretching - DNF. I know the guy he's cool.




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footer stats:

top3 finishes:
2019: 6/9/2
2018: 30/45
2017: 6/12
2016: 4/10
2015: 0/2
2006: 0/1
format: top3-finishes/races/abort

sub5 mi's, sub3 1k's:
2019: 0, 0
2018: 12, 15
2017: 1, 1
2016: 0, 0
2015: 0, 0

id just like to point out that, had i not been forced to slow down in this race, i wouldn't have witnessed the "blind wheelchair racer", who finished the entire half marathon with a guide (on bike) behind her, telling her small adjustments such as: "slight left", "stay straight" etc.

they passed me at mile 11 or so.. and my jaw literally dropped once i realized what was going on.

that's absolutely incredible. props to that lady (the wheelchair racer) and the guide.

i've never seen a "blind" athlete before.. always respect it so much when I see it on tv. i've only seen blind runners before, running with guides, and some of them can really fly.. it's remarkable.

(writing this on 03/26, regarding stretching the night prior):

stretching: did tons of stretching, hamstrings/glutes/calves/upper back/lats/chest etc.. nothing made me feel any better UNTIL I did some more intense glute/hip stretches at night before bed. I was getting annoyed and basically just started becoming a pretzel, putting whatever bodyweight I could onto my hip/glute (via internal rot etc), and just staying in that position for minutes at a time. I was trying to be careful too, because some of those positions were making my knees feel it a bit, positions i never get in.

the difference was "night and day". I probably spent 30 minutes total stretching, including some intense lying hamstring stretches. but the glute/hip stuff I did got something to relax and my back/hip/glute/hamstring felt "fixed". I wondered if upon waking up i'd be back to "normal" (wrecked) -> felt just like I did last night, even an hour or so after getting up.

I eased my way into the stretches, got some crazy ROM at the end (hamstrings & glutes/hips).

TLDR: think I found something to relax some of the stuff that's tweaked in my back/hip/glute. The biggest difference so far is actually my back.. feels "released" of something tugging on it. Just feeling this good again is making me happy, just hoping to get back to running slow - completely pain free. That's the real goal.

03/25/2019

diet:
- ate light with a cauliflower/broccoli stir fry for dinner

soreness:
- quads/calves destroyed
- hamstrings/glutes a bit sore

aches/injuries:
- sacral spine achy, back achy

stretching:
- morning: lots of light stretching, especially back/hip mobility to try and loosen up my back.
- evening: intense hamstring, glute/hip stretches

can you post a vid of the stretches you're talking about? can't picture what you mean.

rest + occasional (intense) stretching + a few slow sessions.

03/28/2019

very light: 1h10m ::: grass
- https://www.strava.com/activities/2246970913
- legs were wrecked



03/31/2019

very light: 2h14m ::: grass/overheat
- https://www.strava.com/activities/2255447541
- felt pretty good. also felt decent afterwards.
- surprisingly good slow run considering i did the overheat stuff, sweatshirt + windbreaker pants & hot af out.

04/06/2019

10:20 AM: jump rope: 30 min

light stretch:
- hamstrings, lots of hips

04/07/2019

10:00 AM: very light: 1h50m ::: (light hill path, overheat, lost 8 lb water)
- https://www.strava.com/activities/2272601982

died hard at the end there. it was real hot out and i had my hoody on, was brutal at the end. felt ok up until then. just bam, wrecked.



performance condition -19 at the end lmao. was probably on the verge of heat stroke i actually started to get a bad headache until i got fluids in me. then it lessened.. but was still there. then i got an oreo blizzard from DQ and it disappeared.


light stretch:
- hamstrings, glutes