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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6300 on: August 03, 2025, 08:23:05 am »
+1
- run 1:31:08, 16.23 km
T+DI 138, praise holy jeebus. it's down into great running weather yet but so much nicer than it's been. HR averaged 130 and pace was a solid 10-20s quicker per km than recent runs. nice to be able to run an easy 10 miles and feel like nothing's happened.

also, my destination today was notable. recently, my parents had a bench installed in a park near their house, dedicated to my brother's memory. it's off by itself, facing the creek and away from passersby on the trail, as he would have liked to sit. there's a plaque on the back rest. it's very beautiful and i sat on it for a few minutes about halfway through the run. won't be the last time i do that. i miss him.

that's really beautiful, man. i'm really glad you have that and that it can be part of your own outdoors life
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6301 on: August 03, 2025, 12:15:40 pm »
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me, too.

- run 2:33:00, 26.02 km
T+DI 130, a little warmer than yesterday but dryer. warm in the sun and not much breeze but overall pretty nice out. kept it chill and also kept a running clock for a couple of "aid stations" - one where i took a bathroom break and one where i just changed over water bottles from back to front of pack. lost about 5 minutes between those two stops, not too bad.

ETA: ran an easy-pace marathon over the past two days: total of 42.4 km in 4:04:08. total distance this week 76.54 km, total time on feet 7:40, both clear lifetime PRs.
« Last Edit: August 04, 2025, 07:07:19 am by LBSS »
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6302 on: August 04, 2025, 07:06:53 am »
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have been having faint whispers of plantar fasciitis when i first wake up in the morning, for the past few days or maybe as long as a week. need to stretch calves and be more vigilant about activating glute medius as a pre-running warm up.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6303 on: August 04, 2025, 03:44:33 pm »
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me, too.

- run 2:33:00, 26.02 km
T+DI 130, a little warmer than yesterday but dryer. warm in the sun and not much breeze but overall pretty nice out. kept it chill and also kept a running clock for a couple of "aid stations" - one where i took a bathroom break and one where i just changed over water bottles from back to front of pack. lost about 5 minutes between those two stops, not too bad.

ETA: ran an easy-pace marathon over the past two days: total of 42.4 km in 4:04:08. total distance this week 76.54 km, total time on feet 7:40, both clear lifetime PRs.

baller. that was a huge weekend of training.

have been having faint whispers of plantar fasciitis when i first wake up in the morning, for the past few days or maybe as long as a week. need to stretch calves and be more vigilant about activating glute medius as a pre-running warm up.

i think i mentioned it in my own log at some point, but for glute-med this is 100% the best exercise i have ever done for those:


also, re calves, do you have access to a calf machine or a leg press? b/c doing low-rep straight leg calf stuff where you hold the stretched position for 3+ seconds is (a) great for running-specific strength and (b) the best way to stretch your calves b/c you're gonna get way deeper than you can with bodyweight alone
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6304 on: August 05, 2025, 08:01:18 am »
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it was! plan is for this weekend to be even huger.

that is a wild-looking exercise. i've been doing banded sideways walking, standing banded wall clamshells (like this but trying to keep my upper body more upright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7IuESLoPs), and strict SLRDLs, all of which activate it in different ways, but i'll give that a shot! am i right that he's leaning his knee pretty heavily into the bench?

and sadly, no access to a leg press or calf machine. best i could do would be weighted calf raises on a step. which would probably be a good thing to add.

- run 1:13:45, 12.44 km w/ 4x100m strides
strides all in 16.xx. if i didn't know any better i'd say i almost took it too easy, HR average 123. no plantar feeling this morning. did some gentle dynamic stretching of calves before leaving and right calf was a little tight when i first started out, which i wonder if that's a reaction to the stretching.

evening

- warm up

- circuit
-- paused SL deficit calf raise +25 x 3,3/leg
-- SLRDL +25 x 8,8/leg
-- floating heel ISO BSS x 60s/leg
-- hamstring/sciatic nerve flossing x 10/leg

- squat 205 x 5,5

- climb x 30 mins
fingers on left handed started to hurt, stopped.

- pull up myo reps x 10+3+3+1

- dip myo reps +20 x 10+3+3+1

- suitcase carry +55 x two laps/side
« Last Edit: August 06, 2025, 07:53:24 am by LBSS »
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6305 on: August 05, 2025, 03:50:07 pm »
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it was! plan is for this weekend to be even huger.

that is a wild-looking exercise. i've been doing banded sideways walking, standing banded wall clamshells (like this but trying to keep my upper body more upright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7IuESLoPs), and strict SLRDLs, all of which activate it in different ways, but i'll give that a shot! am i right that he's leaning his knee pretty heavily into the bench?

and sadly, no access to a leg press or calf machine. best i could do would be weighted calf raises on a step. which would probably be a good thing to add.

- run 1:13:45, 12.44 km w/ 4x100m strides
strides all in 16.xx. if i didn't know any better i'd say i almost took it too easy, HR average 123. no plantar feeling this morning. did some gentle dynamic stretching of calves before leaving and right calf was a little tight when i first started out, which i wonder if that's a reaction to the stretching.

yeah it's a silly looking exercise, but nothing else i've done felt like it loaded glute med in as stretched and targeted a way as that one. You don't need to lean too heavily into the bench, it's mostly just there for stability!

oh yeah, one-leg calf raises off a step are great too, of course!
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6306 on: August 06, 2025, 07:48:37 am »
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alright, you've convinced me. i'll try it.

- track workout
-- warm up
-- 5 min @ HM pace + 120s jogging rest
-- 2 x [4 min @ 10k, 3 min @ 5k, 2 min @ 3k, 1 min @ mile] + 90/60/30s jogging rest; water break between sets
-- cool down
fun workout. HM rep averaged 4:14, then 4:04, 3:55, 3:47, 3:35 for the first set and almost exactly the same splits (within 1s) for the second set. T+DI 140, it's still not hot but humidity is creeping back up.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6307 on: Today at 07:45:56 am »
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- run 1:11:31, 12.25 km w/ 5x100m strides
16,16,16,17,16 on the strides. felt slow but i guess they weren't much different from usual. first ~5k run with a buddy who did never summer 60k a week and a half ago and is still in recovery mode. was cool to hear a bit about that race. T+DI 135.
« Last Edit: Today at 07:47:28 am by LBSS »
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