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i do like the idea of being on the move for a while, seeing different places, living unconventionally. of course covid has put the kibosh on that for the immediate future but it'd be cool to be able to travel around, working for a month at a stretch and then exploring, volunteering, learning new stuff just for the hell of it. i wouldn't be working in the field i'm in without some sense of wanderlust.

ah nice. yea i can see how it would be exciting/fun. even though i usually run the same paths, i love running in new places.. but then i love coming back home to the same spot. hah. i'm nomad by foot, but not by car/plane etc. if i didn't have dogs, i'd run up the east coast or something. thought about it several times. stuff like that gets my mind wandering.

absolutely sucks that it's not really feasible right now, or for the next year or so.

but not forever, and i genuinely don't know if she'd ever be happy really making a home somewhere, which is something i know i want.

tbh the last time she and i talked, it felt like we're pulling apart, that the physical separation is confirming that breaking up was really inevitable. i don't want to feel that way, or to feel like she feels that way, but there it is. idk, maybe i'm just feeling morose and lonely up here in my childhood bedroom.

damn.

- run 18.02 km in 1:41:42
brutally hot, hardest run i've done in a long time despite also being the slowest (5:39 average pace). T+DI 170 (98F/36.7C temp, dew point 72/22.2). by the time i got home i'd overheated to the point where i was breathing hard and had to ice my neck and chug cold water, and i feel slightly out of it. i pushed too hard today. should have dialed the target distance back given the conditions. not dizzy or faint and i wasn't getting chills or anything, but very fatigued and slightly out of it. lesson learned.

- stretch

ETA: 5:39, adjusted for T+DI, equates to 5:14 pace. perfectly alright for a long run. 

regarding the heavy breathing thing, sounds like you pushed just a bit too far beyond the extreme fatigue sweet spot, into the danger zone.

without the heavy breathing symptom, that fatigue + chugging a gallon of cold water can make you feel so good the next day.

never saw this before

1990 mj dunk contest for a bball camp or something. 3 ~free throw line dunks.

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

quick journal.

built a 4 ft x 4 ft chicken wire enclosure today, with my dad (to protect some plants). going to start building more enclosures etc.. get good at building simple stuff to protect my plants & such.

will drop some photos in a few days.



two days ago: saturday

2020-07-18

bw = 147?
aches/injuries = calves tight after run

run:
- 1.5 hr, light but fast-light
- felt really good
- both calves (soleus) tight afterwards




2020-07-19

aches/injuries = calves (soleus) tight



feeling ok though. will probably run tuesday.

2020-07-16

bw = 143
aches/injuries = right soleus tight (improving)

it's improving. still tightness in the area it cramped up on sunday.

probably no run until sat or sun. hopefully not later but will back off until my tightness test passes.

this happened a week or so ago. crazy fast.

houlihan (14:23 american record), schweizer (14:26, also goes under houlihan's previous AR)

moh ahmed 12:47 (canadian record), lomong 12:58 (one of the few americans under 13)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GP3A-e4ByU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GP3A-e4ByU</a>

I can't believe it's been this long since I posted in my own journal . It's been a turbulent year and a half life-wise. Obviously covid-19 has been totally disruptive to everything, and I've had a bunch of other demands on top of that: two kids now, terrible first job out of PhD, better second job but required a relocation (luckily we just moved in time before Covid shut down everything for the first time in Victoria, Aus).

I have been exercising but not seriously training. Every stat is obviously very low. I am eternally inspired by Coges training at a high level into his 40s with kids, and I want to get back into some form of regimented training, but I have no idea what. Considering doing more running but I am not naturally good at longer stuff, and it would be a time-intensive activity to get near the levels of adarq, LBSS, vag, and the other runners (you're all very impressive btw), which I think would make it more motivating. No gym time either at the moment, but that could be something - I am wary about gyms now though, even once we're out of lockdown #2 in Victoria (the only Aus state to relapse so far). I'm posting just to make sure I keep pushing forward with ideas, otherwise I will definitely slip even more. I'd like to be an active dad with whatever sports the kids want to do eventually (I'm praying it's not soccer), so staying fit is a priority.

whoa awesome. congrats on the kids man!

you made some big life changes lol. nice!



as for training during covid.. ya, running is great. whether it be endurance or sprints etc, getting fresh air (hopefully away from people) and putting in some work is the way to go. so many more people running now than before covid, it's funny & cool.

forget going into gyms for a long while.. 

just get consistent w/ something u enjoy & have fun.

pc!

Quote from: adarqui on July 12, 2020, 10:26:58 pm

Quote from: LBSS on July 12, 2020, 02:24:31 pm

- run 19.6 km in 1:42:16
accidental distance PR, first time over 12 miles. ran a mile longer than intended because my mom (who biked along with me) and i got separated just before the halfway/turnaround point and i looped around to look for her. waited for ten minutes at the fork where we must have gotten split up and then came back. we just missed each other and ended up arriving home within ten minutes of each other. so also a lot faster cumulatively than last week (5:13 average pace), thanks in no small part to my being worried/irritated that i'd lost my mom, lol.

- stretch

tired.

nice!

and damn lol. stuff like that can be nerve-racking. brings back nightmares of losing my mom in the mall as a kid growing up hah. 8|

pc!

lol, reminds me of the old level 7 training ideas thread.

lool.

hahahah level 7: WHERE'S MY MOMMY?!?!?!?!

yea exactly, lmao.

2020-07-12

bw = 146

feel good


run:
- 3 hours mixed surfaces (dirt/grass/sand/rocks/asphalt), 1 hour walk
- a few stops mixed in, in the 3 hours (call from co-worker, taking photos, etc)

- ran in an area i'm looking at houses .. ~1 hour from me, ~45 min from work. more north, more farmy. lots of state parks, tons of trails, pretty nice

- when i get there, some cyclist (Bill) likes me running in my cowboy hat, so he says "nice running hat!", so instead of him just keep going, we talk a bit as i was running and him cycling. talked for like 5 min then separate ways. cool tho, nice guy. lol.

- ran passed this dude selling watermelons (William) a few times. He'd always give me the thumbs up and say something positive.. so at the end im actually walking back and i was dehydrated as fu*k. he saw me and offered me an unopened bottle of water. so i took it, we spoke for a bit, then i told him i'd be back to get a watermelon.

- about 30 min later i come back w/ my car and buy a watermelon. he was cracking up, here we are in the pouring rain, me w/ a cowboy hat & eating the watermelon w/ a combat knife. he took a photo of it, probably posted it on his fb or something. anyway was funny. good dude.

- mostly very positive experiences when i run in "country folk" areas. lots of polite people. always enjoy that.

picture of the watermelon:



i ate half of it. was good. just what i needed. ears were completely "popped" from lack of fluids, and throat was dry as fuck. lost > 10 lb water. eeeeh.

feel good now, other than calves/feet cramping randomly.

ate a ton of salt/sugar/rehydrated almost completely etc.



pc!