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RACE DAY!!!!!

feel great. right hamstring slightly sore but nothing to worry about. that improved fast. thankfully.

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04/17/2018

bw = 143
bw before bed last night = ?
soreness = right hamstring slightly
aches/injuries = left adductor still achy
cramping = none
morning quad flexibility = loose
morning hamstring flexibility = loose
morning calf flexibility = loose
morning adductor flexibility = loose
feel = great
hours sleep: 8

wakeup = 07:30 AM (slept in)

data collected throughout the day when I have my watch on:
HR low: 44?
HR high: dno

log:
08:00 AM: food: 4 x eggs, beet juice, oatmeal + pink salt + honey, water
12:00 PM: food: work: rxbar, banana, peanutbutter trail bar, tons of water
04:00 PM: food: oatmeal + tons of pink salt + tons of honey, water
05:00 PM - 06:15 PM: off and on water .. cramped up a bit during warmups, drank a bottle of water 10 minutes before the race .. was worried
06:30 PM: race: FICPA 5K: 1st OA in a nice battle! 17:35 official! (NO WATCH). No estimated time: 3.06 course instead of 3.1 (perhaps). We got confused approaching mile 2, slowed down. eeh.
08:30 PM: food: anthony's! roast beef sandwich, lunch sized tomato basil mozzarella pizza, some salad with gorgonzola, bunch of water

race: FICPA 5K: 1st OA in a nice battle! 17:35 official! (NO WATCH). No estimated time: 3.06 course instead of 3.1 (perhaps). We got confused approaching mile 2, slowed down. eeh.
- https://www.strava.com/activities/1515039736
- http://www.splitsecondtiming.com/results/2018/ficpa5k2018.php

I passed the mile 1 marker at 4.58 lmfao, but it was short (or my watch was wrong, i'll go with it being short). I was like holy shit. i didnt know it was short, wasnt looking at my watch during the race. figured id finally transformed into a Kenyan... lol. not yet.

Saw someone I knew who was pretty fast, but I had beaten fairly easy a year ago. He went out really fast, so I was wondering if he was going out way too hard, or if he was in better shape. After 400m or so, I correctly analyzed that he was in better shape! haha. He ran a really good race. He pushed it hard. I separated a little by mile 2, and then started to push it harder by 2.5, which got me some space. He finished with 17:55. It was fun, he's a really great dude.

As for the confusion: there was a huge bus blocking our view up ahead for the rest of the course, and a car erroneously coming down our way with cops trying to stop it etc, and our "pacer/leader" on the bike disappeared. So we were like wtf? discussing if either knew if we had to keep going or turn etc. seems like this kind of stuff happens alot hehe. Stuff like that does suck though, definitely ruins your rhythm. Need to get better at handling stuff like that, without breaking my stride. Seems almost impossible though. Confusion makes you slow.

On to mile race prep!

I have a big mile race on April 26!!! Going to try and be as fresh/fast as possible for it. It's 4 hours away sooooo... Can't go out there wasting my time. Need to bring it.

nice quick read

running in japan.

https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/why-japan-is-the-most-running-obsessed-culture-in-the-world-w209376/

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will update journal tmw, but 1st OA @ 5k PR (17:35 official) !!

https://www.strava.com/activities/1515039736

http://www.splitsecondtiming.com/results/2018/ficpa5k2018.php

Man Jean pascal is tough. I watched this after watching his fight with hopkins part 2. He did well in this fight against kovalev, mabe ref jumped in too early as he didn't give him a chance to try defend himself but he probably would have lost any way later on in the fight.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dalmo1T5__A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dalmo1T5__A</a>

ya that was an exciting fight. Pascal always does better when he gets hurt, he's a warrior. I think it was a good stop though, he looked lifeless.

Quote from: adarqui on April 17, 2018, 08:53:03 am

Quote from: Joe on April 17, 2018, 06:50:59 am

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdDJrEhzCmw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdDJrEhzCmw</a>

The poet Auden narrated this documentary about the runner Bruce Kidd. It's a pretty gorgeous film.

how did you find this gem? that was excellent.

reading old posts on a lit website, haha! was shocked to see it there

crazy man. that's a sick find. surprised I haven't seen that. you'd think that would be more popular, beautiful video.

Damn. The lady in the interview in the video you posted said she was feeling terrible and wanted to drop out when she was around 3rd or 4th and yet she was able to push through that but difference is that when I did the 1200m timed and I ran the first lap when heading towards the start of my second lap I wanted to give up as I was tired as I had probably run a little hard at the start but I wouldn't give my body the chance to stop and just kept going the remaining two laps; running zombie and it is just a feeling you want to get over and done with but she has the ability to keep pushing and someone get past the terrible feeling. Props.

ya

i think it was the conditions more than anything else. the women went out very safe/conservative, slow pace. so i think the battle was really intense regarding the external factors. obviously external conditions bring about internal challenges bu

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been wanting to respond but keep getting distracted at work F it. hah