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Quote from: adarqui on June 02, 2019, 05:58:40 pm

^^ long story short, I might have worked some magic on myself. I got really annoyed at the injury and just tried to stretch the living fu*k out of it - which I knew could be a very bad idea. This was up there with the longest & most intense i’ve ever stretched.

holding stretch positions for 5-10 minutes and such is very difficult. you have to focus so hard on just staying relaxed & calm. really controlling your breathing, trying to just melt into it, and then hold with no protective tension.

could be a David Goggins moment lol. He’s well known for 2-3 hour stretch sessions every night. I def don’t want to get into that… But sometimes your body is just urging you to do some intense stretching, it feels like an instinct. Apparently he fixed his jacked up body (from stress/training) by really committing to stretching.

when I was stretching yesterday, I wasn’t thinking about the injured area actually healing… I just wanted it to release it’s grip for a while and fucking relax.

would be amazing if it’s fixed now.

pc!

Sometimes when I do this it feels amazing and fixes me, occasionally it just makes it worse though. Guess you just gotta play it by feel!

ya.

need to really try not to force it. i think that's where it falls apart.

stretching has wrecked me probably more than it's helped. but there's got to be something i'm missing. hehe.

So many gems to find in those stats:
So after having run 20K at ~14:45 per 5K  , Kiphoge goes 'meh, i feel fresh, let's pick it up' and he does 20->25 in 14:14 , a time which until 1939 was WR.
Kipsang's slowest km pace was 3'18'' , i dont think i'll ever in my life be be able to do 3'18'' in an all out 1km sprint lol.
Kiphoge never went above 3m/km.
Inhuman.

i have absolutely no ability to comprehend it.

i've run a 2:49 km, all out effort. it gives me no perspective of how someone can hold 2:5X per km, for 42+ km.

very quick log.

this morning's run.... legs felt insanely loose/relaxed. in fact, i was going as slow as possible and still hit 10:0X min/mi. That's actually pretty nuts. Recent sessions at the same effort were > 11 easily. Evening session wasn't as good, legs felt heavier, 11:0X.. but that morning session, legs were crazy loose. I love that feeling. Need to figure out how to always have that "snappy loose feeling". I imagine lots of elite runners, jumpers, sprinters etc experience that often.



06/03/2019:
- hamstrings sore
- morning "looseness" was amazing

09:15 AM: run + bw + light stretch

run: light: 25 min ::: (grass/dirt/rocks)
- https://www.strava.com/activities/2420103805
- 2.44 mi 10:10 /mi 24m 51s

bw:
- strong
- 3-5 sec paused dead hang chinups: BW x 7
- full dips: BW x 8
- dead hang ng pullup holds: BW x failure
- dip holds at the top: BW x failure

light stretch:
- very relaxed, loose, fairly quick tho
- also got some pulsating



08:30 PM: very light: 39 min ::: (concrete)
- https://www.strava.com/activities/2421642881
- 3.48 mi 11:07 /mi 38m 47s



12:30 AM: stretch
- havent done it yet.. plan on doing 30-45 min tho.
- up way too late but whatever :<

gn!

kawahi lenard just showed why you shouldn't skip leg day too much....

the guy looked like he was walking on stilts or ice skates tbh some times.....


all upper no lower

he hasn't looked the same since he hurt his leg against MIL.. eh.

Game 2 GSW.

Iggy comes through again.

GSW really beat up tho.. if they get Durant back, TOR is in serious trouble. If they don't have Looney, Klay, or Durant in game 3.. could be bad.

TOR gave it away.

in no professional bball league should a team ever give up 18 straight points.

insane.

Realised I logged in km yesterday rather than miles, lol. I have my watch in km and strava in miles so that I can finally build an inuitive sense of how to convert them.

hah. i have a good grasp on pace km to min/mi conversions for <= 3:05 only. distance conversions are decent across the board.





you going to night of the 10k pb's this year?

last year's results are so crazy.

world lead 10k this year, prior to Rhonex dropping 26:50, was like 27:30.. and a dude dropped 27:35 at no10kpbs last year, several 27:XX's.

https://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=234742&pagenum=1#10000

crazy.

Yeah those lunges left me sore lol. Probably stupid to expect to pb 2 days after that

loool.

I did run though, 21.27. Paced it all wrong, had loads in the tank, was going full out for the last 50m and overtook quite a few people (I'm a considerably better sprinter than I am distance runner lol, just purely from basketball and lifting)

nice!

if you can go full out like that, def more in the tank. good stuff on sore legs.

Do they have park run in the US? I think it's the best thing ever, there are at least 5+ in my city alone. There were over 500 people there today with the winner running a serious time of 16:05 and the slowest people coming in at 60mins, pushchairs, dogs etc, is great. I was chasing this little kid who was probably about 10 the whole way round, blew past him in the last 30m tho lol 

ya that's cool.

no park runs around here that i know of. i think in some cities there are, like NY etc. but around here, it's just (non-free, promoted) races every weekend. most don't get 500 people either.

big races get 500-1000+ but that's the minority of races.