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monday

- treadmill run 7.25 km in 36:07

- stretch

last night

- run x ABORT
immediately felt something wrong in right knee, medial posterior. no idea where it came from, hadn't been bothering me before. did not seem like the kind of thing that i could warm up through. got about 100m, stopped, and walked home.

i do still plan to race on saturday, having paid the entry fee and all. but i'll test the knee out again on friday just to see. if it's still wonky then no-go.

o shit. #1 OSU getting owned by WISC right now, in the big 10 champ.

yeah that didn't last. osu is the death star right now.

welcome. what are your goals, specifically? lose inches off the waistline? jump higher? get back into pickup ball or get better at it?

well, i fucking did it.



- 5k race in 19:55
splits: 3:55, 4:00, 3:58, 3:58, 4:03

 

ETA: didn't print out a barcode so i won't get an official time, but that's okay. watch time actually took me past the course finish, so official time would have been a few seconds faster. incidentally, mapmyrun has a weirdly big gap between km pace and km elapsed time splits. the latter gives a time of 19:37. dunno why that would be, usually elapsed time is longer, if anything, because it accounts for stopping for road crossings. garmin site says 19:55 as well so let's go with that.

felt the pain especially between 3.5-4.5 km. pace was slowest around 3.6-3.7 but managed to surge enough that when i died in the last few hundred meters i had enough buffer to make it under the 20:00 mark. a little disappointed that i faded so badly and was slowing down at the finish but, under the circumstances -- first race in more than a year, run at all-time PR pace, at 9 AM after <7 hours of sleep -- not THAT disappointed.

crippling headache again today, starting around lunchtime. took anti-migraine meds, much self-massage, a heat patch, and a nap and have been feeling fine the last hour or so. suspicious timing coincidence, leading up to a race. i wonder if i'm subconsciously so worked up about tomorrow that it's giving me a headache. consciously, i'm nervous and i will be sad and disappointed if i don't hit my goal tomorrow. so there is -- unusually for me -- some anticipatory anxiety on the surface. but it doesn't feel that bad. or maybe i'm fooling myself and have put myself under more pressure than i want to admit?

anyway, headache's gone and unless i'm fucking catatonic tomorrow i'm going to run. deep breaths.

yup. apparently he was adarq.org member number four. don't remember if he could ever dunk, at least while he was posting on here. http://www.adarq.org/profile/?u=4

amazing progress on the weight/fat loss. reminds me of maxent when he was cutting, although without the constant self-flagellation.

do you feel like the mobility/joint health work is making any difference? you've also been really consistent with that. couple weeks ago you mentioned that a shoulder pain had gone away. how about the knee stuff?

buying a house in south florida just seems like a crazy long-term investment to me. storms are gonna get worse (or bad storms more frequent; tomayto tomahto), sea level's going up. same goes for anywhere along the water on the east coast, especially in the southeast but even in places like the jersey shore. like, are flood and hurricane insurance even available anymore? if so, don't they cost an absolute mint?

what are people saying about it down there? the climate crisis and its impact on the area, i mean. really curious actually.