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adarqui · « **Reply #6075 on:** March 17, 2016, 01:00:52 am »

03/16/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = no idea, was tossing and turning alot.. tried to sleep at 1 AM
wakeup = 8 AM
bw = 154 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = none
aches = right tennis elbow slightly
injuries = toenails wrekt, right big toe blister slightly
feel = good

Food

8 AM

- 2 x wheat toast with peanut butter
- greek yogurt
- pure sugarless green tea

Session: Morning

11 AM

run:
- slow
- 4.72 mi in 35:33
- pace: 7:32 min/mi
- left calf got tight out of nowhere at 4.72 miles, so i stopped and walked for a bit.. resumed running a bit later, but just to get home. Felt fine then..
- actually worked on my stride a little bit as i ran home.. felt good

splits:
- first 3 miles low 7's, 4th & rest 8+,

Food

1 PM

- greek yogurt
- grape fruit juice

Food

5:30 PM

- got some dope smoothie at some vegan juice place.. some "cookies & cream" smoothie. was pretty good.

Session: Evening

7:30 PM
- decided to run again

run:
- 6.34 mi in 52:46
- mix of fast and slow
- calf felt good but i could feel some "thickness".
- worked on stride again on the 1st and 3rd mile

splits:
- mile 1: 6:39 min/mi (best pace: 5:41 min/mi)
- mile 2: 8+
- mile 3: 6:18 min/mi (best pace: 5:39 min/mi)
- mile 4: 8+
- mile 5: 9+
- mile 6: 9+
- mile rest: 9+

so I pushed it on mile 1 & 3. My wrecked-leg feels better running fast than when I do slow, go figure. When I run slow, eventually i can feel it get tighter (if it flares up). weird. could be me thinking about it or something too.

i think the fastest i hit was ~10.6 mph.. so that's the fastest i've gone since coming back from this injury.

Food

8:30 PM

- grilled chicken sandwich from boston market
- some zuccunni casserole ?
- a few chips

Food

from 8:30 on.. lots of water with lemon.. just can't stop drinking it.

Food

10 PM

- mint tea
- biscotti

Session: Recovery

12:20 AM - 12:45 AM

- iced my left calf/hamstring

probably just going to walk tomorrow.. might do a few sets of bodyweight stuff, but still trying to get my right elbow to improve more. It's not "that bad", just tired of feeling it nag me.

pc!

adarqui · « **Reply #6076 on:** March 18, 2016, 03:00:02 am »

Quote from: ghettoracer on March 16, 2016, 03:19:23 pm

hey adarq long time no see. i read the last 2 pages of this journal and didn't see any weight lifting. i could be mistaken but didn't you weight more 3-4 years ago?

ya i weightlifted basically every day when I dunked.

don't feel like lifting right now tbh.. just going the bodyweight + conditioning route for now. Seems like i'm trying to learn how to train without being psycho obsessed about it...

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i guess i could back track on your journal but i thought it wouldn't hurt to ask why for a short answer. seems like you've been running a lot.

ya that's basically my main goal right now. i've accumulated some injuries from doing stupid shit recently, so, my training frequency is alot lower than it was prior to Feb/March.

my goal is to improve my various running distances: 5k, 10k, half marathon.

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personally i hate running (i'm mentally weak about it, could play ball for hours, but not run).

ya running is tough. it's great for people who are able to repeat monotonous "things" for a long time.. that's me.. :F

pc man

adarqui · « **Reply #6077 on:** March 18, 2016, 03:06:20 am »

word. UM got a win in the tourney... nice!

03/17/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 10 hours
wakeup = 12:30 PM
bw = 149 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = calves slightly
aches = right tennis elbow slightly
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = good

Food

12:30 PM

- orange juice
- greek yogurt

Food

3 PM

- greek yogurt
- pure sugarless green tea

Food

8 PM

- 1.5 cups of israeli couscous, with grilled chicken & tons of olives, garlic, serrano peppers, red pepper, carrots, lemon, mixed nuts .. (ridiculously good)
- cara cara orange
- some blue corn chips
- water with lemon

Food

9 PM

- hot mint tea
- biscotti

Food

12 AM

- greek yogurt
- banana

rested today.. lots of programming/reading. got some stuff working nice on my kindle paperwhite, so i can study while I walk, in the day light, if I want.. few hours of studying while walking = win.

a couple of my wrecked toenails look alien-like. I don't even know how to clip them. The snd toe especially.. it's like a normal toenail with a big mass of toenail on top of it. wtf. might need to see a pro eventually about it.

tmw i'll probably run in the evening.

pc

adarqui · « **Reply #6078 on:** March 19, 2016, 04:26:05 am »

watched alot of ncaa basketball today & did tons of coding. NCAA was sick.

03/18/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup = 12 PM
bw = 151 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = none
aches = right tennis elbow slightly
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = good

Food

12 PM

- greek yogurt
- pure sugarless green tea
- 2 x wheat toast with peanut butter
- banana

Food

3 PM

- greek yogurt
- orange juice

Food

5 PM

- some berry/beet drink
- almond joy

Session: Evening

7 PM

run:
- 8.66 mi in 1h:08m:47s
- a mix of slow and fast.. did tons of short fast runs (heel->toe). most were close to 10mph. should have been faster but.. heel/toe i guess.. going to try and improve speed using my normal running style tho. was pretty brutal.
- pace: 7:56 min/mi
- speed: 7.6 mph
- decent for a mix of slow and fast.. was tough

splits:
- miles 1: 6:56
- miles 2,3,4: ~7
- miles 5,6,7,8,9: ~8+

hamstring/calf held up good.. happy about that.

Food

9 PM

- egg rolls
- lots of mixed nuts
- some chicken

Food

10 PM

- half pint haagen dazs
- 2% milk
- mint tea

Food

4 AM

- chocolate covered almonds
- 2 x 2% milk

leg feels decent, but i did feel it several times during the day, prior to my run. felt better during my run than it did during the day, eh.

gn!

adarqui · « **Reply #6079 on:** March 20, 2016, 03:20:11 am »

03/19/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup = 12 PM
bw = 151 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = calves (left moreso)
aches = right tennis elbow slightly but improving due to lack of activity
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = good

Food

12 PM

- greek yogurt
- banana

Food

3 PM

anthony's pizza!
- 3 slices of pizza: tomato, basil, mozzarella
- 5 chicken wings
- big salad

Food

5 PM

- small bowl ice cream

food coma.

Food

9 PM

- big bowl of cheerios with honey & 2% milk
- grape fruit juice
- banana

Food

3 AM

- greek yogurt

Food

5 AM

- 4 bananas

rested today.

adarqui · « **Reply #6080 on:** March 20, 2016, 03:29:30 am »

on a good note.. been coding ALOT. I've definitely been out of my "burnout stage" the last 2 months or so. Feels good..

one of my projects has been re-designing this forum in my own code.. actually making lots of progress with that. I've been ingesting all of the data from this forum into the new forum. I've got pretty much everything ingested. I also have it so that I can ingest multiple times per day, to get the new threads/posts etc. The stuff that's going to take more time is the web-app ui components. My goal right now is to make it a bare minimal, completely usable version of the existing forum. Then, I can start building out more cool stuff, like tools to get us data/analytics on our workouts, calculators, templates, different types of editors (raw, markdown, bbcode, ..), different types of posts, different styles of logging workouts (so that they are easier to sift through, track, analyze) etc.

Once I get the bare minimum forum completed, i'll open it up for people to test it out.. and if everything seems good, we could switch over.

No timeline yet but, been working on this every day for a few weeks now.. and things are coming along.

Finally, i'm also coupling it with some other ideas I have.. I always wanted this site to have some "educational features" (fitness + education/science + blog stuff). So i've been working on that also.. it's basically a separate app but i've just merged them together.

so needless to say, happy about that.

pc!!

maxent · « **Reply #6081 on:** March 20, 2016, 03:37:31 am »

@adarqui ^^ wicked! i woudl still love to do a joint project with you sometime. Feel free to drop into my log and we can discuss ideas without littering up your log!

adarqui · « **Reply #6082 on:** March 21, 2016, 03:50:25 am »

Quote from: maxent on March 20, 2016, 03:37:31 am

@adarqui ^^ wicked! i woudl still love to do a joint project with you sometime. Feel free to drop into my log and we can discuss ideas without littering up your log!

ya! going to need some time though, got lots of stuff to do/fix.

do you haz githubs?

pc

03/20/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup = 2 PM
bw = 152 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = none
aches = right tennis elbow barely
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = good

Food

2 PM

- greek yogurt
- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter
- beet juice + tart cherry juice
- pure sugarless green tea
- banana

Food

5 PM

- pure sugarless green tea
- greek yogurt

Session: Evening

7:30 PM

run:
- ~15 mi in ~2.5 hours
- don't have an exact time because I restarted my watch a few times, cramped up
- cramped (abdominal/stomach) up at mile 5.66 .. rested it for a bit, then ran through it for the rest of the mileage (was bad initially, but got better)
- the first 5.66 miles i did my jog & sprint.. definitely way better than last session
- used more midfoot during the sprints

some info for the first 5.66 mi:
- pace: 7:25 min/mi
- best pace: 5:37 min/mi
- speed:8.1 mph
- best speed: 10.7 mph
- first 3 miles sub-7 alternating jog and sprint

lots of run-sprints > 10 mph, which is much better than last session where I could barely hit 10 mph.. soo.. was able to produce some decent power without worrying about my leg much at all. felt good for the most part.

leg feels a little tight after the run, but nothing scary.

Food

10 PM

- 2 x pizza
- 6 chicken wings

Food

12 AM

- orange
- banana
- greek yogurt
- green tea
- orange juice

Food

4 AM

- greek yogurt
- banana

having fun with the jog and sprint. need to keep focusing on getting my power back, but still put out these long runs. I really want to PR my distance soon, ~18+ mi.

pc

adarqui · « **Reply #6083 on:** March 22, 2016, 03:37:26 am »

feel pretty good today, especially my legs. good considering yesterdays volume.

03/21/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 7 hours
wakeup = 1 PM
bw = 151 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = quads slightly
aches = right tennis elbow barely
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = good

Food

1 PM

- greek yogurt
- orange juice
- 2 x wheat bread with peanut butter

Food

6 PM

- chocolate cookie
- rose green tea

Food

8 PM

- big bowl of beef + chili bean soup from whole foods (REALLY GOOD)
- some chipotle blue corn chips
- some mixed nuts
- banana
- small bit of ice cream

Food

3:15 AM

- 3 x banana
- greek yogurt
- blue corn chips
- 2% milk
- biscotti

spent all day coding, nonstop like a madman, mostly refactoring/code-janitor work.

adarqui · « **Reply #6084 on:** March 23, 2016, 04:07:26 am »

was up late last night.. but more so after terrorist attack news started flooding in. we have lots of members in europe, hope every is ok/stays safe.

apparently, dikembe mutombo was even at that brussels airport during the bombing....

03/22/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 7 hours
wakeup = 1 PM
bw = 150 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = none
aches = right tennis elbow barely
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = tired

Food

1 PM

- mint green tea
- banana
- 3 x wheat bread with peanut butter
- beet juice + tart cherry juice
- greek yogurt

figured i'd load up a bit more early, and not eat closer to when i run. I think this was a good idea. Though, I did start getting hungry towards the end of the run. But, I also smelled some nice food every lap, as I passed this one section.

Session: Evening

7:30 PM

run:
- 14.86 mi in 1h:55m:09s
- mix of medium and fast .. mostly medium, then some long fast sprints mixed in
- really good run

- actually could have PR'd my 15mi if I ran a bit longer.. my previous PR for 15.07 mi was 2h:07m:xx ... so definitely ran better for ~15 mi than I have. EDIT: Just looked it up, that 15.07 was 8:28 min/mi pace (7.1 mph), so nice improvement considering i'm still coming back from an injury filled feb/mar. i'll take it.

- pace: 7:46 min/mi
- best pace: 5:43 min/mi
- speed: 7.7 mph
- max speed: 10.5 mph

splits were decent.. first 9 miles, i hit 5:40+ to 6:xx as my "best pace" for each split.. that was basically the intention... well the intention was to do that for every mile but, after 9, I started hitting 7:xx for best pace, obviously losing some steam.

need to stick to what i'm doing right now.. without doing anything stupid. Felt pretty damn good tonight; lungs, legs, minds, etc.. Quads were a bit tight at times during the run, from fatigue i guess.

hamstring/calf issue didn't pop up :F

AELS AELS AERS AERS.

on a side note.. I run by this guy who walks fast.. really fast. I mean he must be walking 5+ mph.. it's impressive. Looks pretty weird too. He's this young dude with this big bone structure, walks like he's angry almost, but he's actually nice. anyway, just looks very odd, yet powerful.

Food

10 PM

- big bowl of chicken tortilla soup
- 2 x veggie egg rolls
- pure sugarless green tea with lemon
- some mixed nuts
- chipotle blue corn chips with guac

Food

11 PM

- hot mint green tea
- biscotti

Food

3 AM

- big bowl of cheerios with honey and milk
- orange juice
- banana
- greek yogurt

feel pretty good!

seifullaah73 · « **Reply #6085 on:** March 23, 2016, 06:06:31 pm »

hey

I decided to expand on my programming skills to increase chance of employability by learning different python frameworks, I have learned python itself but am going to try and learn 3 of the many frameworks django, flask and pyramid. any advice on making the learning easier, how to follow tutorials, so to learn instead of memorizing it. it is the first time I would be dwelling into web development. the things you have to do.

John Stamos · « **Reply #6086 on:** March 23, 2016, 06:20:44 pm »

You have a very diverse range of food, some that I wouldn't expect to go together in the same meal sometimes haha. Are you on some kind of plan like a list of foods you can have or you just eat what your heart desires at a much smaller proportion than me? haha

adarqui · « **Reply #6087 on:** March 24, 2016, 03:45:12 am »

Quote from: seifullaah73 on March 23, 2016, 06:06:31 pm

hey

I decided to expand on my programming skills to increase chance of employability by learning different python frameworks, I have learned python itself but am going to try and learn 3 of the many frameworks django, flask and pyramid. any advice on making the learning easier, how to follow tutorials, so to learn instead of memorizing it. it is the first time I would be dwelling into web development. the things you have to do.

nice!

well, web stuff is my arch enemy.. i excel more at non-gui backend stuff. but i guess the same techniques apply.

one thing I like to do is find some simple code out there on github, download it, get it to run, then start to pick it apart. So, it could be some simple web app in flask for example. Now, instead of reading a tutorial and simply implementing it verbatim, you now have to do more investigative work. You can also go back through the commit history and "unravel it from the beginning". It's hard to do this with big apps, so find small tools/repositories and read the code, but also mess around with it, making tweaks and such.

I always have some project I implement when learning a new language, or in your case, framework. For most people it's a TODO app (TodoMvc) etc. For backend stuff it could be file parsers, irc bots, etc. As for TodoMVC, you'll probably be interested in this if you havn't found it already:

http://www.todobackend.com/

they have backend versions of todo apps written in the frameworks you mentioned. Those would be a good resources. Also, i've done that todo-backend exercise in a few languages, it's actually worth it. They have some nice test page where you give them the url to your app, and it piece by piece helps you code it in a TDD (test driven development) style. So they ask you to respond to a GET / with all todos, and you implement it. Then they give you the next task.

I guess the common theme in those two approaches is the "do/tinker" technique. Memorization is very important, it allows you to just fly through a project when you don't have to check the docs. But in the early stages, writing a small project from scratch where you can't "easily cheat yourself" by looking up the answers, is important imho.

Tutorials are good though too.. After you've messed around and completed some small projects, just going on a tutorial binge can open up all kinds of new ideas/techniques that would have taken you so much longer to find. So I like binging on tutorials, just spending all day going through tons of them and jotting down things I want to really look into.

Lastly, i'd watch/star a few active repositories in github that cover what you are trying to improve. That way you get email notifications and such when people accept pull requests etc. You want to read commits to those projects daily. Even if you don't understand the architecture of the project, you just want to read those commits to pick up on things people who are professional with those frameworks are doing (their style, comments, techniques, tricks, libraries they use etc).

let me know if that helps! that's my 2 cents on it.

pc!

adarqui · « **Reply #6088 on:** March 24, 2016, 03:50:57 am »

Quote from: Eric on March 23, 2016, 06:20:44 pm

You have a very diverse range of food, some that I wouldn't expect to go together in the same meal sometimes haha.

diverse? dno.. but, ya I agree on how I combine some of these foods into the same meal.

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Are you on some kind of plan like a list of foods you can have or you just eat what your heart desires at a much smaller proportion than me? haha

hah, ya smaller proportions.

whatever the heart desires.. though, it desires much more. my heart desires tubs of haagen dazs and anthony's pizza. ;f

I like eating lighter earlier, then heavier after I train. When I eat heavy early, even on off days, I get more lethargic & weak mentally. So eating light early keeps my mind sharp. Then I just eat whatever at night. That's why you see me eating larger/more at night than early/during the day.

My favorite meals right now, by far, are my spicy couscous meal with grilled chicken, and my lentil soup. Also that beef + chili bean soup from whole foods was ridiculous.. need to get some more of that.

pc!!

adarqui · « **Reply #6089 on:** March 24, 2016, 03:55:11 am »

did anyone see the @midnight fake presidential debate between fake-trump and fake-sanders on comedy central? epic!@$ was damn good.. 1 hour long fake debate, worth checking out.

woke up at 2PM.. crap.

03/23/2016

Bio: Morning

sleep = 8 hours
wakeup = 2 PM
bw = 151 lb.
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = quads slightly
aches = right tennis elbow barely
injuries = toenails wrekt
feel = tired

Food

2 PM

- greek yogurt
- orange juice
- banana

Food

4 PM

- chicken sandwich
- some squash medley
- hot mint tea
- biscotti

Food

8 PM

- 2 x veggie egg rolls from whole foods (solid)
- bunch of blue corn chips
- red kidney beans with serrano pepper + garlic (could have done without the garlic)
- water w/ lemon
- a few chocolates

Food

12 AM

- hot mint tea
- biscotti

Food

2 AM

- water w/ lemon
- greek yogurt

some stretching

Food

4:51 AM
- damn im starving

- banana
- 2 x wheat bread w/ butter

legs feel pretty good.. tired as hell today tho. trying to get better with this purescript-halogen framework, destroying my brain.

pc!

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