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gnats ruined my mile PR run.. fml

I was inhaling gnats, they were going in my eyes etc.. At the end of the run I had like 1,000 black dots (gnats) all over my shirt/skin/face/hair lmao.

still tied my 1KM PR and was 3s off of my 1mile PR.
- 1KM: 0 mi to 0.62 mi was 10.83 mph (5:32 min/mi)
- feels SOOO much different than my similar PR going heel->toe.. i'm working waay less hard using this midfoot/forefoot style.. ie, I can push some more. Using heel->toe, i'm busting ass to achieve that speed, it's basically max effort.

actually felt very good AND my calves weren't 100% recovered.. good sign.

also was able to breathe in through my nose and out through mouth for most of the entire run.. I think (not sure if true) I feel I have more power when I breathe in through my nose.

wouldn't inhaling gnats effect your body, it sounds like its a natural occurence there.

Is it something like this but instead of locusts its gnats

ya that's basically what it felt like, lmao. non-stop gnat-fest.

Quote from: adarqui on May 19, 2016, 05:29:45 pm

gnats ruined my mile PR run.. fml

I was inhaling gnats, they were going in my eyes etc.. At the end of the run I had like 1,000 black dots (gnats) all over my shirt/skin/face/hair lmao.

still tied my 1KM PR and was 3s off of my 1mile PR.
- 1KM: 0 mi to 0.62 mi was 10.83 mph (5:32 min/mi)
- feels SOOO much different than my similar PR going heel->toe.. i'm working waay less hard using this midfoot/forefoot style.. ie, I can push some more. Using heel->toe, i'm busting ass to achieve that speed, it's basically max effort.

actually felt very good AND my calves weren't 100% recovered.. good sign.

also was able to breathe in through my nose and out through mouth for most of the entire run.. I think (not sure if true) I feel I have more power when I breathe in through my nose.

Damn, rough. I always sweat a lot so gnats love me too. 

I can't believe you almost PR'ed breathing through the nose.. Didn't you post an article that said the best way to breathe during running was deep breathing through the mouth?

ya, I did.. but, i've deleted everything i've read on the internet, from my brain. That article (and some studies) helped convince me I should be breathing in through my mouth, so I just switched to it completely.. but I feel weaker breathing in through my mouth; I feel like I don't get enough oxygen, I take more breaths, and it just feels weak.

When I breathe through my nose, I get into this 'rhythm' which is slower (but seemingly deeper) breathing than when I breathe in through my mouth. Mouth is more rapid yet shallower.. This is how it feels at least.

So i'm still not sure whether or not I should go with breathing in through the nose or mouth, but, historically, i've always breathed in through my nose when running.. It's only this recent stint that i've been breathing through my mouth. Without getting any advice, or reading how the 'pros' do it, i've just naturally breathed in through my nose. The only pitfall is when my nose is clogged.. It's rarely clogged enough to bug me when running, but it does happen.. so that could impact me.. but not going to let that alone steer me towards mouth breathing (that's what got me researching it in the first place, nose clogged during a 5k race I did last November).

So i'm trying to remove everything from my brain and investigate/experiment based on my ideas.

If I had taken popular advice regarding vertical jump training, I probably would have been doing lots of lame/ineffective/mediocre training. So i'm starting to realize I could have been "duped" a bit by all of the popular running articles/information online etc.. Lots of "fluff". Most of the information online isn't aimed at transforming you from normal-american-runner into elite-kenyan-runner, right? My goal is to run like an elite, even if it's not producing elite times, times should still be impressive - but the form/grace/power is more of the goal than the times.

It's just like what I did with dunking.. I didn't simply want to dunk.. I wanted to hit my head on the rim. Had I just wanted to dunk, I wouldn't have analyzed things the way I did, nor would I have squatted several times per day/every day etc.. So I just need to think "bigger".

The biggest problem I have right now is technique & power (and accumulated injuries/aches).. I run like a novice (weak form, incomplete hip extension) and lack of speed, which both go together. Then there are other things I need to figure out; body weight, breathing, foot strike, soft-tissue work, 'stim', nutrition etc.

and I want to improve my hops more.. :F

pc man!

Adarq Grylls

05/19/2016

Bio: Morning

last night's sleep: ~8.5 hours
last night fell asleep: ~4 AM
wakeup = 12:30 PM
bw = 149
morning resting heart rate = didn't measure
soreness = calves barely but still noticeable
aches = none
injuries = toenails slightly wrekt, left heel slightly, right hip flexor slightly (~tendonitis), right hip slightly
standing desk (when on computer): none
feel = good
water = ALOT



Food

12:30 PM

- beet + tart cherry juice
- green tea
- greek yogurt



Session: Afternoon

3:30 PM
- total minutes of running: ~11
- temperature: 84F @ 66% humidity

runs:

1. 0.14 mi in ~44s

2. 0.22 mi in ~1m:09s

3. 0.14 mi in ~50s

4. 0.10 mi in ~33s

5. 1.01 mi in 5m50s
- 1 mi in 5m47s
- speed: 10.38 mph
- 1 km TIES PR: 3m26s (10.83 mph, 5:32 min/mi, 0.0 mi to 0.62 mi)
- right hip flexor started to tighten up after that run


jumping:
- L-SLRVJ max: ~10'4"
- R-SLRVJ backboard touches - actually felt great jumping off of my right leg today though
- felt weak


runs: ran these hard

6. 0.1 mi in 29s
- 12.68 mph / 4:44 min/mi

7. 0.1 mi in 31s
- 11.75 mph / 5:06 min/mi

8. 0.1 mi in 26s
- 13.84 mph / 4:20 min/mi

9. 0.1 mi in 27s
- 13.73 mph / 4:22 min/mi

the difference between #8 and #9 is interesting.. for #8 I kept focusing on stride length and felt much better at the end of the sprint.. for #9 I turned up stride freq halfway and felt beat at the end of the sprint.

0.1 mi = ~160m

overall, decent session.

right pinky toenail hurts.



Food

5 PM

- 2% milk



Food

8 PM

- scorpion fest WTF
- big stir fry: broccoli, carrots, olives, garlic, mixed nuts, olive oil, jalapeno pepper
- 4 eggs + 2 wheat toast
- extra mixed nuts



Session: Recovery

11 PM - 1 AM

- tennis ball deep tissue, tons
- hit lower body HARD: glutes, tfl, itb, quads, calves, adductors, hamstrings
- for hamstrings and adductors, sat on a stool:
-- for hamstrings: sat on the tennis ball
-- for adductors: placed tennis ball on adductor, small pillow on tennis ball, leaned on it with my weight and dug in directly on the tennis ball.. got my adductors pretty good

felt really good after.. I need to fix my right adductors/hip flexors.



Food

1:30 AM

- red wine (to relax + heart .. dno)
- greek yogurt


tmw will probably be deep tissue + walking, then activation stuff at night. forcing myself not to train hard on consecutive days, ie, ratio of 1:1 work/rest.. but even allowing myself to do 1:2 work/rest.

pc!

It's hard for me to imagine breathing "deeply" through my mouth for a long time while running, I would probably get tired like crazy.

.....Well I've been running wrong for idk forever haha

Are you still into dunking, but off one foot now? I'm also curious to see what height you need to be touching to be able to put down lobs. I think i'm touching around 10'6 right now, but doesn't feel like I'm even close to being able dunk a lob.

I see. Well that's probably gonna take me more than a year I guess. I wish we had a vertec at my gym too though, 10'6 is just a rough estimate.