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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 21, 2025, 07:56:53 pm »
- strength
-- jump rope
-- 2 x [toe walks forward/backward x 60s + heel walks forward/backward x 60s]
-- BSS x 60s/leg
-- 2 x [standing banded clam x 15 + SLRDL +20 x 10]
-- depth drop @20" x 5,5
-- SL pogo x 8,8/leg

- squat 195 x 5,5

- RDL 205 x 5,5

- climb x 45 mins

- pull up myo reps x 8+3+3+1

- dip myo reps x 10+3+3

right shoulder bothering me a little on squats and dips, otherwise felt okay.

ETA: also, i have a blister on my left big toe from sunday. first time in my life, or at least that i can remember, that i've gotten a blister on my foot. need to find a different trail shoe than speedgoats, or maybe just go up a half size?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 21, 2025, 08:01:12 am »
just found out there's an FKT for the route i did yesterday (well, minus the distance i got lost for). the record is 1:09! even with perfect weather and knowing the route, that's pretty impressive. might be fun to try down the line, even if i don't get there.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 20, 2025, 01:47:02 pm »
- run 1:51:56, 13.14 km
drove out to a trail about an hour away that's a mountain loop of 11.3 km. thought i'd set up a cooler in my car and do the loop twice, practicing switching water bottles and nutrition at an "aid station." turns out (extremely technical terrain + 595m of elevation gain + T+DI 160) = dose of humble pie. i got lost at least half a dozen times and the duration includes an unknown but not insignificant number of minutes of me standing still while i tried to figure out where to go. had to walk extended sections of uphill and downhill because of steepness and roots/rocks. bailed on second loop and will just run later to make up the distance.

lessons learned:
  • the navigation feature on my watch is not high-res enough to be useful at anything but the most obvious junctions. in new territory, bring phone.
  • raide belt is great, doesn't bounce at all and i easily could have carried more stuff.
  • 45m/km of elevation gain is a lot harder than 21m/km. it's on the high end of "very hilly," almost tipping into "mountainous" on one scale i saw.

later

- dreadmill x 1:00:03, 10.46 km
air conditioning good.

finished the week 290m shy of 70km. this coming week i'll drop back down to ~50km to deload.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 19, 2025, 11:01:40 am »
starting to think about doing a marathon in the spring, dreaming of qualifying for chicago or even boston by time. so my races over the next ~10 months could look something like:

september 2025: parks half marathon (registered)
october 2025: patapsco 50k (registered)
november 2025: JFK 50 miler (registered)
(february 2026: ~100km FKT attempt?)
april 2026: marathon (e.g., coast guard, delaware, coastal delaware)

to qualify for chicago at age 39, i'd need to run sub 3:00. at age 40 (which i'll turn in late 2026), it goes up to 3:05. boston times are the same on paper but in practice are faster, from what i've read. currently, VDOT calculator estimates i'm in ~3:09 shape, based on my HM time. coros estimates 3:12, but it doesn't know about the weather. either way, sub-3 seems ambitious but not out of the realm of possibility, with increased mileage and consistency. i ran the 1:30 half with only one week at 40 miles and only 6 weeks over 30 miles in the previous 4 months. much room to grow.

not gonna do anything about it right now, i've got the two ultras this year to get through and that's enough to plan for. but it's fun to think about.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 19, 2025, 10:30:55 am »
- run 1:03:17 w/ 6 x 30s @ 5k-->mile pace, rest = time for HR to come back under 140
mini-fartlek starting at 4km just to keep things fun. overall HR average 134. T+DI 157.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 17, 2025, 03:40:21 pm »
got results back from the sweat test. levelen has a pretty good reputation, from what i've read, but still taking these results with a grain of salt (no pun intended) because it's just a single test taken in a non-clinical setting.

  • i lost about 1.2L of sweat during the run, which is in line with what i already knew from previous weight tests. the recommendation to drink 26-30 oz of water per hour (770-890 mL) is also in line with what i'd already learned. turns out i'm in the 45th percentile for sweat rate, or what they call the "moderate" range. i'm not surprised to be in the fat part of the bell curve, but i am a little surprised to be below average. the more you know.
  • i lost 1568mg or about 3/4 tsp of salt (NaCl) during the run, which is in the 61st percentile, or "significant" range, per levelen. the report recommends including some carbs along with salt in exercise drink because your body doesn't absorb the salt as efficiently without the presence of carbs. that is interesting, hadn't read that before.
  • of course, levelen is a supplement company, so the report comes with recommendations for how to use their products to best replace what i'm losing. fortunately, it's not hard to extrapolate to a recipe i can make at home.


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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: DISTANCE RUNNING INDEX
« on: July 17, 2025, 03:18:59 pm »
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/nutrition/takes-to-run-and-recover-100-miles

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40239961/

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High total energy expenditure (TEE) and rate of water turnover (rH2O) using doubly labeled water (2H218O) have been reported during single-stage and multistage ultraendurance events. At the 161-km distance, less is known about the interaction of TEE, rH2O, and ad libitum energy/fluid intake. This is especially true during the postrace recovery window.

Purpose: To measure TEE, rH2O, and ad libitum energy/fluid intake during a 161-km ultramarathon while extending the TEE and rH2O measurement window to a 7-day postrace period.

Methods: Doubly labeled water was used to monitor TEE and rH2O in 2 male ultrarunners (R1, R2) during a 161-km ultramarathon. Self-reported energy/fluid intake was recorded at crew-accessible aid stations.

Results: Both runners completed the race in 32.8 hours, and TEE over this period was 65.8 MJ (6.5 × basal metabolic rate [BMR], 15,723 kcal, 11,225 kcal·24 h-1) in R1 and 66.5 MJ (7.4 ×BMR, 15,888 kcal, 11,293 kcal·24 h-1) in R2. Race energy intake for both runners approximated 50% of TEE, with reported fluid consumption of 21.8 L and 15.7 L for R1 and R2, respectively. rH2O during the race was 14.6 L in R1 and 15.5 L in R2. During the 7-day postrace period, total TEE and rH2O were 94.7 MJ (1.9 ×BMR, 22,634 kcal, 3245 kcal·d-1) and 41.8 L for R1 and 80.0 MJ (1.8 ×BMR, 19,116 kcal, 2721 kcal·d-1) and 24.0 L for R2, respectively.

Conclusion: These data illustrate the expected nutrient and fluid budgets for ultramarathons and describe the challenge of restoring acute negative energy balance following these events.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 17, 2025, 08:18:58 am »
- run 1:11:48, 12.36 km
T+DI 160, there was steam rising off the trees in the park. HR average 125. one thing that helps about the hard days being actually hard is that it's easier to keep it easy on easy days. body's just tired.

next week will deload.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 16, 2025, 07:44:32 am »
- track intervals
-- warm up
-- 1+2+3+4 mins @ ~5k pace, 1 min rest between reps
-- 1200m @ "faster" pace
-- 1+2+3+4 mins @ ~5k pace, 1 min rest between reps
-- cool down

T+DI 152. messed up the pace button on the first set of timed reps but the second set were all between 3:54-3:59, which i'm happy with given the humidity. did the 1200 in 4:26, which is ~5:48 mile pace. subjectively this was a hard workout but not a killer.

ETA: also, bit of DOMS today. not bad, though.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 15, 2025, 07:18:32 am »
- run 58:11, 10.08 km
legs not sore but felt pretty dead. T+DI 151; cooler but dew point still 73. HR average 129. successfully kept it easy.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 14, 2025, 05:26:51 pm »
- warm up
-- jump rope
-- joint mobilizations

- strength
-- 2 x [3-way calf raise x 10 + tib raise x 15]
-- 2 x [sideways band walk x 60s + standing clam x 10/leg]
-- 2 x [heel floating BSS x 30s + med ball ham curl x 12]
-- depth drop x 5,5

- squat 185 x 5,5

- RDL 185 x 5,5

- dip x 10+3+3+3

- climb x 45 mins

felt pretty good. i really need to be better about mobility/soft tissue work.

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800m+ Running and/or Conditioning / Re: DISTANCE RUNNING INDEX
« on: July 14, 2025, 01:32:29 pm »
rather than make a new thread, i'm just going to start aggregating some stuff i want to refer back to in here.

"A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Overuse Running-Related Injuries: Findings From the Garmin-RUNSAFE Study Point to a Sudden Not Gradual Onset." https://www.ucviden.dk/da/publications/a-paradigm-shift-in-understanding-overuse-running-related-injurie

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the proportion of running-related injuries that can be classified as (i) being based on overload with an acute mechanism with a sudden onset, (ii) being overuse in the sense they are based on a repetitive mechanism with a sudden onset; and (iii) being overuse in the sense that runners gradually develop problems that lead to an injury.

DESIGN: Cohort study with an 18-month follow-up.

METHODS: English-speaking runners aged at least 18 years who were tracking running activities were included. Running-related injury during follow-up categorized into three groups: (i) those with overload injury; (ii) those with a running-related problem 7 to 28 days prior to reporting a running-related injury and (iii) those sustaining a running-related injury without any preceding problems.

RESULTS: Overload injury accounted for 467 of 1,666 injuries (28%), while 1,199 injuries were overuse (72%). Among overuse injuries, the proportion of runners having a problem prior to injury occurrence was 6.9% [9.4%; 13.0%] 28 days prior to injury.

CONCLUSION: Most of the overuse injuries occurring in adult runners may be classified as sudden repetitive overuse injuries rather than injuries that are based on a gradual onset.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 13, 2025, 12:27:15 pm »
the vibes were great, very supportive. big spread of ages (the youngest was a 9 year old who set the maryland state age group record in the squat and bench and qualified for junior nationals, very cute/cool; oldest were in their 60s), about 60/40 men/women. there was a mother/daughter duo competing in their first meet together, both really strong. queer friendly. nobody being a gatekeeping dick as far as i could tell. no grime to speak of, although the gym didn't have a/c so it was a little warm.

- run 2:25:28, 22.00 km
T+DI 166, dew point 76 which is about as high as it's been all year. about 18km of this was on trails. 467m/1532' of elevation gain and equal descent, plus lots of roots and rocks and a bit of mud, so my quads and calves are a bit tired. should stretch later just for the relaxation of it. HR averaged 144. this definitely qualifies as a hard workout. pace chart looks insane, lol. like an earthquake on the seismometer.

average pace was 6:37, which confirms that my watch was out to lunch yesterday, there's no way i was slower yesterday than today. conditions added probably ~15 minutes to my total time, per that chart joe and i were discussing recently. mid-run i started fantasizing about running in the snow. it was hot.

ETA: extrapolating to the distance of the 50k race course loop i'll be doing in october, this route is pretty much dead-on in terms of elevation gain. that's interesting. assuming decent conditions and that i'm able to keep building fitness (i.e., not get hurt), that means sub-5 hour is not unrealistic.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: July 12, 2025, 02:51:18 pm »
- run 57:06, ??km
ran on a trail in some pretty dense woods near where my wife had her first power lifting competition today*. watch seemed to have gotten confused about distance, told me i covered just over 8 km, which would mean a ~7:00/km pace. i was running relaxed and easy but i know how fast i was going. i never, ever run that slow. i'd say this was more like 9-9.5 km. but whatever, doesn't matter in the long run.

*she did great, i'm so proud of her! only missed one lift (her second bench) and she felt really good during and after. top lifts were 75kg squat, 47.5 bench, and 90 DL for a 212.5 total at 58kg bw.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: warpspeed to the new scenario
« on: July 11, 2025, 07:46:49 am »
makes sense. don't discount the benefits of acute relief, though!

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