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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.
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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: August 07, 2025, 07:45:56 am »
+1
- 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.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6308 on: August 08, 2025, 06:28:14 pm »
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- climb x 75 mins
pretty okay.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6309 on: August 09, 2025, 10:42:13 am »
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- NSA-style tempo run 1:23:17, 16.00 km w/ 3 x 10 min @ MP (4:23, 4:28, 4:30) w/1 min rest
HR averaged about 155, 158, 162 on the reps. nice day, not too humid. obviously first rep was a little too fast but in my defense it was mostly downhill, and the third rep was mostly uphill. watch gives 166 as threshold so at least i kept them all underneath that.

right posterior knee "thickness" was back a little for the first 3 km, went away when i sped up for the first rep. frustrating. hope it's just a one-off, i'll stretch and do some additional activation this afternoon.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6310 on: August 10, 2025, 02:24:12 pm »
+1
- run 2:48:31, 28.02 km
T+DI 143, not too humid but getting hot. HR averaged 133, although it was creeping up into the 140s by the end. most of the uphill is in the back half of this route. did an "aid station" stop at the same point as last sunday, had to poop this time so it was a little longer, ~4:30. couple more brief stops to change out water bottles but none of them long enough to log, probably lost 2 mins total.

weekly mileage was 82.67, which is definitely a PR and my first time ever totaling more than 50 miles in a week.

knee felt okay, there's definitely something going on in there but it was not thick or uncomfortable in any way. that's a relief. will continue to stretch and activate and hope for the best.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6311 on: August 11, 2025, 06:41:50 am »
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migraine started about four hours after finishing the run. it built pretty slowly, wife and i were able to go out to dinner, but by 7:30 PM it was moderately bad, like a 6/10. tried a new medicine that the neurologist i saw recently gave me: no effect. tried my old medicine: no effect. got in bed at 8:30 and it actually got a shade worse, and added mild nausea, before i finally fell asleep.

i drank 1800mL of fluids during the run, which included ~2 tsp of salt (~4600mg sodium, including what's in the gatorade powder), plus basically chugged another 400mL of gatorade as soon as i got home and continued hydrating the rest of the afternoon. per the sweat test i took, i lose a little more than 1500mg of salt per hour, and should be aiming to replace ~800mL of fluids per hour when it's hot out. i met the salt target on this run, which goes in the "it's not hyponatremia" evidence column. realizing now that i fell a little short of the fluid replacement target. hm. on the other hand, not even a hint of headache after the run last week and it was only 2 km shorter. was substantially cooler, though. maybe i'll bring the bladder on my next long run and fill it just with water.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6312 on: August 12, 2025, 09:11:48 am »
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slept like 4-4.5 hours last night for some reason and woke up with a little plantar discomfort and a little thickness behind the right knee. decided not to run first thing. will do some stretching and activation throughout the day and try this afternoon if it's feeling good.
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Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« Reply #6313 on: August 14, 2025, 01:48:19 pm »
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did not end up running on tuesday, this is turning into a forced deload week. did manage to do the track workout yesterday, but was exhausted after spending the rest of the day moving and did not drag myself out of bed this morning.

yesterday

- track intervals
-- warm up
-- 4 x [3 min @ one-hour pace, 3 min @ sub-one-hour pace, 3 min @ jogging recovery]
-- cool down
ran these faster than i meant to, especially the "one-hour pace" reps, especially since it's humid as shit again. pretty hard as a result. HR climbed into the 170s on the third and fourth reps.
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