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- run 45:22, 7.32 km

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signed up for a 5k race on 23 march and a 10k on 14 april. i think one of the problems with my training last summer was a lack of races to practice really pushing myself. the latter is two weeks out from the 10-miler that's my main target race at the moment, so i will not absolutely kill myself in it, but it'll be good to at least shoot for a pace that's under my target 10-mile pace.

the 5k will be a good gauge of how fit i actually am, as well. based on that, i'll see how realistic my imagined target time of <1:10 is for the 10-miler. we'll see if i'm still in sub-20:00 shape.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs VO2max
« on: March 01, 2024, 09:04:52 am »
SAID principle, man. gotta stress your body. add distance or add speed or both. pick a race and a goal time that seem slightly out of reach. hell, i had a race and a goal time last year and barely improved from march to september, in large part because i didn't adjust my training enough. (suboptimal conditions did play a role, in fairness to myself.) you know this already, of course. but do it!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: March 01, 2024, 07:48:21 am »
agree with joe, and also why not try swimming? hard to imagine a better activity to get you moving your shoulders through a big range of motion. also repeating the suggestion of feldenkrais. these people might have suggestions about where you could take a class near yourself: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469132926443860/. there are lots of free resources online, as well.

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- "easy" run 39:14, 7.67 km; km 3 and 5 @ ~10 mile pace (4:22, 4:21)

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Reboot - get lean, get hops
« on: February 29, 2024, 09:29:02 am »
happy belated birthday!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: February 29, 2024, 09:15:20 am »
after we moved in together my wife started having pain in her neck and getting frozen, where she couldn't turn her head very far to either side. this coincided with her starting to use a big armchair that i inherited as a primary desk, sitting with her body facing forward and the laptop balanced on the left arm of the chair. once she changed her position in the chair so that she is facing the arm with her legs tucked under, the neck pain went away.

also, i get tension headaches from time to time, which are referred pain from my upper back when i'm stressed out by something. i don't notice the extra tension in my back but it is obviously there, i end up with big knots. moving my shoulders, thoracic spine, and neck through their full range of motion - carefully, as in through feldenkrais - helps a lot. e.g., https://nickellson.com.au/2020/04/06/feldenkrais-shoulder-spine-integrator/.

point is, sounds like it might be good to find a different position for your racing game, and spend some time moving your shoulders deliberately.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: February 28, 2024, 07:22:37 am »
damn man that sounds terrifying, thanks for sharing. maybe try coming clean with the neurologist about this part, if you haven't already: 

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don't have much hope - the problem is complex, with a lot of details, and these people are there to just make an opinion in 15 minutes and come up with something and most of the time they don't care, they simply say "you're imagining, it's a psychiatric thing" etc. It's been going on for two years, already, and I don't even know its nature, its ethiology - is it nervous? Is it mental? Is it exhaustion? Is it circulatory? I even went as far to assume that the vaccine might be involved, as there is a lack of explanation for these weird symptoms.

just throw it on the doc as a challenge? like, "you gonna be one of these 15 minute assholes or you gonna try to help me?" idk, hope it goes well tomorrow, good luck.

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- 10k pace repeats
-- warm up
-- 5 x 1 km (4:11, 4:09, 4:11, 4:11, 4:06)
-- cool down
legs felt heavy.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Raptor's log
« on: February 26, 2024, 04:50:22 pm »
have you been to the doctor?

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- run 39:42, 6.39 km
freaking beautiful outside today. weird for late february.

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- run 1:40:34, 16.02 km
with wife, nice and easy pace.

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wednesday

- treadmill tempo
-- warm up
-- 5 x (2 mins @ 3:52, 1 min @ 6:00)
-- cool down

today

- run ~4.5 miles
got home yesterday afternoon after 28 hours in transit. woof. watch didn't charge overnight so it was dead, so just an estimate based on knowing the route. was probably a little more than 4.5.

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- treadmill whatever
-- warm up
-- run x 5 mins @ 4:00, 5 mins @ 3:52
-- cool down
work meant this had to be really short. better than nothing. guts still a little off but pretty much okay.

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was in siem reap from saturday-monday, working and maxing out the time i had for tourism. no running. also got the shits yesterday, after a week-plus in the country with no issues. go figure. got back last night and tried to run but felt bad so stopped after five minutes.

trips like this were more fun when i was in my 20s. it's cool to be out here, i'm learning a lot and that's great. but i'm tired and i miss my wife and i want to be able to train consistently for something for once in my life. last year was an anomaly with the lack of work travel. this year is looking more typical: strong likelihood that i'll have to come back out to cambodia in a couple of months. kyrgyzstan and bangladesh are possibilities for later in the year, maybe sri lanka, maybe vietnam. starting to think again what it'd look like to change careers.

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