I’m in need of some extra recovery. I ran a little over 26 miles last week. Went out for a tempo run Tuesday morning and my legs had nothing to them it seemed.
I’m not always good at enforcing rest and recovery though.
Got curious yesterday. Back in late May, I deadlifted 250 lbs for a PR. [...]
So you went out to sing
and there was the willow
down at the creek. What’s
a dead body going to do?
The eels come out and it’s
getting dark, they swim
in a way like what you see
when you close your eyes.
There was this song you used
to breathe, it was this way
your hair smelled to me
and all I knew was [...]
I ran 3.5 yesterday and it was about as miserable of a short run as possible. Lower 70s, near 100% humidity. When I finished, I was drenched in sweat. But the weather is supposed to become more normal and September like this week so it’s just time to move on and be glad that I [...]
I’m not sure how to evaluate this one.
Got a real bad draw on the weather, after a couple weeks of lots of cooler weather in the mornings to run, this morning was like summer again.
It rained yesterday and overnight. The air mass is saturated and the sun came out this morning. By 9 AM, it [...]
Weird how things can change and the feel of things can be so different. Last week I went probing at where my one rep maxes might be about — I didn’t actually go after a one rep max, I would do the lift and feel how it felt to judge an estimate on where I [...]
So I experimented a bit. At some point I had come across this thing called German Volume Training (GVT). The scheme is fairly simple, with a lighter weight try to do 10 sets of 10 reps with 1 minute rest intervals. So I settled in a routine like this — overhead press and barbell rows, [...]
I got back up and running 8 weeks ago as the fatigue problem finally went away. I started off with 14 miles and 3 runs that first week where I stopped feeling sleepy tired after a period of strenuous exertion. The next week saw me go 16 miles, then I cut back to 11 miles [...]
I had a couple of good race photos taken of me back at the half-marathon last year. The photographer got me from the side though, I was spotted late. Also he didn’t have the greatest spot to take the photos from, he was back in the stands. The ones taken by the photography company weren’t [...]
Yesterday was the last day to get in on cheaper rates for the Philadelphia marathon, half-marathon, and 8K on November 23. So I registered for the HM.
To celebrate, I ran hill repeats yesterday afternoon. I ran a different hill than I’ve run the 3 prior weeks, this one’s shorter with steeper sides, I could run [...]
I hadn’t planned on it, but on Friday I learned of a 4-mile race being held and a person who was organizing it was someone at the dinner a bunch of us had back in November before all of our respective runs at the Philadelphia marathon. So I decided I could run it, I wouldn’t [...]
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