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moving in with gf in a new place in a couple of weeks. pretty excited about it. considering getting a set of monkey bars

whoa that's pretty big. awesome man!

pink sea salt ain't from the sea, it's from the himalayan foothills in pakistan. i've got a lamp made out of the stuff in my house.

true. dno why I call it that.

rest/hard walk

02/12/2018

bw = 143
bw before bed last night = ?
soreness = glutes moderate, hamstrings moderate
aches/injuries = top of right foot (bleh!!), bottom of left foot slightly (different spot than yesterday, probably from stepping on a rock)
cramping = none
morning quad flexibility = loose
morning hamstring flexibility = loose
morning calf flexibility = loose
feel = good
hours sleep: 7.5

wakeup = 04:50 AM

log:
05:00 AM: medicine
05:15 AM: food: oatmeal, water
05:58 AM: workout: morning speed walk (grass/dirt/rocks): legs sore (glutes/hamstrings): 5 miles @ {13:XX, moderate}, 1 mile @ {11:43, very hard, 5.2 mph?, PR!} ::: Huge PR - First sub 12 on soft surface, only 4s off all time PR of 11:39 (on concrete) ::: 6 miles in 1h:19m
07:30 AM: food: protein + almond milk, water
09:30 AM: food: 2 x eggs inside rye bread (one eye'd jacks), blueberries, water
11:00 AM: leg drain: 20 minutes
12:00 PM: nap: 1 hour
03:00 PM: food: whole foods: bunch of orange chicken with some sriracha, cashew chicken, lemon yellow rice, one yucca, water
03:30 PM: food: rxbar, prunes, water
05:00 PM: medicine
07:30 PM: medicine
07:30 PM: food: chicken soup, banana, water


left foot bugging me, an old spot I hurt on a rock way back .. didn't feel it during the walk but, might have landed on a hard one. Actually, I felt this when I was running (very slow) on the levee on Saturday, hit a few rocks right in that area and boom felt it.. probably aggravated it a bit then.

lame.

morning speed walk (grass/dirt/rocks): legs sore (glutes/hamstrings): 5 miles @ {13:XX, moderate}, 1 mile @ {11:43, very hard, 5.2 mph?, PR!} ::: Huge PR - First sub 12 on soft surface, only 4s off all time PR of 11:39 (on concrete) ::: 6 miles in 1h:19m
- https://www.strava.com/activities/1404012429

pretty happy with that 11:43 .. Haven't gone sub12 since my 11:39 -> hips feeling strong, lunges might be helping already.

on a sidewalk this would most likely have been an all-time PR, so many little "speed bumps" in the area I walked.

wasn't sweating too much on the 13:XX paces, but then when I pushed it hard on the last mile, sweat just pouring out .. lmao. Very fast walking is so intense.








feet stinging:

eh. feet stinging all day after that walk. probably crushed a bunch of rocks hard but was numb to it HEH.. annoying.

why don't I have caveman feet by now? fml.

will probably be fine by tomorrow.. still, annoying and always "worrisome".

hah. 60-49 cavs right now.. would be hilarious if they are incredible now.. LMFAO.

Lebron goes from trainwreck to mastermind GM (again).

deserves its own post:

after running today, shortly after getting home, had a weird pain in my right calf .. very tender to a slight touch .. Think a blood vessel got wrecked or something.

can barely feel it now but it was pretty intense after my run earlier.

right hamstring/calf feel a bit sore in general but, this was very different. interesting. hope it's nothing & doesn't reappear... barely any hard running this week should help though.

I do... what?

http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/adarq's-journal/msg128765/#msg128765

I think you're right about there being no good reason to support the meat industry. It's just what people do because it doesn't require going against the grain and taking on the personal burden of such a big issue.

It's definitely something I will consider more seriously when I'm older, living on my own and have sorted out other things in my life.

I like the idea of hunting. Giving an animal (what can be called) a natural life cycle death and hunting ethically where animals are in overpopulation, possibly damaging to the environment makes sense to me. Many animals hunt and I'm sure some previous generations of humans were really reliant on that too.

I could never hunt, but that's a great point.

Once in my life, I shot an animal (bird) with a pellet gun (when I was like 12?) .. Maybe I just wanted to see how it felt. I cried myself and still look back on it with shame. I never did anything like that ever again. Not an ounce of joy/fun from that moment. If I had to kill animals for food, I wouldn't. I can deal with unfertalized hen/chicken eggs and such, no problem. But killing an animal, impossible for me, except in self defense. But that's a completely different scenario.

What do you all think about the argument that the individual cannot make any real change with such a big issue? This is the argument I would make normally against going vegan, but lately I feel a need to be responsible for things I care about even if it doesn't make a huge difference.

I also don't want to be overwhelmed with the amount of things I do that support activities I don't agree with. Shopping at walmart, eating mcdonalds, not picking up trash etc. This girl I know literally takes it upon herself to pick up trash in the city on the way home from work. I can't dedicate my whole life to avoiding contributing to big problems..

that girl is a boss.

my Mom used to do stuff like that. She also taught me early not to litter and such, just simple things. Then, when you're with coworkers or friends and they litter, it's like a "bombshell", or at least that's how it feels to me. I mean I try to be nice about it, like no dude i'll throw that out etc.. but it's interesting what kind of feelings it creates, almost like a little "stab". That's probably how people feel when they grow up with parents who teach them how to eat "more ethically" (or vegan) etc. ie, it's hard to acquire that kind of "visceral reaction" to something late in life, i've found. When it's engrained in you since a young age, it's a completely different experience.

And where would I draw the line? I don't think killing rats is morally wrong. I'm not sure how I feel about killing a rabbit.

uh, nice thread.

i've been vegetarian (lacto/ovo) for years now. I think one day i'll make the switch to vegan. I became a vegetarian because I believed animals were sentinent and it was selfish of me to endorse the suffering that meat comes along with AND i figured I could meet all my nutritional needs being veggie easily - which i can. Now the jumpt  veganism is a lot more difficult in terms of organising your nutrition, getting adequate protein, b12, iron etc but its 100% possible. So thus now my laziness (and love of cheese) is more important to me than animal suffering.

You introduced me to the whole lacto-ovo stuff a while back, I haven't done much research in this area. I'm trying to become more ovo-vegan but, it's rough. I definitely have to cut out milk/cheese as much as possible, it definitely impacts how I feel/cramp for running. 100%.

As for chicken, I just still crave it. I've had it several times recently and it feels like it "really helps".

As for whey, I don't feel like it helps at all. Eggs/Chicken yes, Whey no. There's just a major difference in how I feel/think when I cut out animal products. I literally become more depressed etc, it's interesting -> I also get erm.. ED & such. Once I add back eggs or chicken, boom i'm ok again.

So, right now i'm trying to cut out meat completely, and chicken for the most part. As for eggs, i'm trying to make those my "main source", ie ~4 eggs ~5d/wk. It's incredible how strong I feel when I eat eggs. Which is something I also noticed back when I dunked. I used to eat LOTS of eggs & bananas. Just seems to work great for me.

I also feel very strong when I eat red meat/steak & such too .. but, sometimes it can wreck my stomach similar to milk/dairy, just weighs me down. AND, i'd like to cut that source out so..

octo-(occasional-poultry)-vegan :/

also i was so obsessed with eating meat to get my protein a few years back but even if you couldn't meet your 'protein requirements' for the physique/athletic ability you desire....you're still putting your ability to be strong or jump higher or look good and get girls above animal suffering...kinda fucked.

ya that's an interesting thought, which I got several times recently & it bugged me. I thought about it alot after I ate those full rack of ribs basically two days in a row after my ultra relay. It really bothered me.

I'm SUPER excited for lab grown meat, its gonna revolutionise this whole thing. SURELY it's easier to make lab grown milk/whey than it is to make meat though?

I know there are lots of vegan options out there now. maybe when I will have more money and can convince myself through that I will go vegan or at least consume way less/more ethical dairy.

The US definitely seems worse than the UK/eu in terms of mass production farming too.

if you're gunna eat meat hunting wild meat is the most ethical, but thats just not gonna become mainstream anytime soon and the numbers just dont work

As far as I can see it there is literally no ethical argument for eating meat... unless you truly believe animals are not sentinent...I think future humans will look back on what we've done to animals the last few 100 (1000?) years in disgust, they won't be able to even fathom how we could be so cruel and selfish.


gah no hate to all the meat eaters on here hahaha --- that got pretty ranty, but just been thinking about this a lot recently

good stuff!

also as far as strength/power/physique go, you've proven lacto-ovo-vegan works well!