1hr bike ride to and from the city. Hot and hilly.
TRACK:
10min warm up jog
10 x single hop MB throws
8 x double hop MB throws
5 x triple hop MB throws
200 MB abs
120m running A’s, walk 100m
100m running A’s, walk 100m
100m running A’s, walk 100m
100m running A’s
200 MB abs
120m running A’s, walk 100m
100m running A’s, walk 100m
100m running A’s, walk 100m
100m running A’s
100 MB abs + 100 non-MB abs
(I wonder if I’m exaggerating with the running A’s, but no harm done whatsoever…Let me do my thing.)
Short bike ride home cool down.
Overall day’s temper: :mad: with a pumped up tone…
Quote for the day (or night):
“The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go”. (Indian monk).
Note to myself:
[i]Do NOT get influenced by people around you… (came across a trackie - that is at my level-, and she was talking about track, transfers, money, training, coaches… I really don’t need any of that overload of information processing in my head right now on a personal level).
As a wise friend says, “Training supersedes everything”. I train, I’m healthy, I compete. I know what I want. Whatever happens, happens. I hope it’s what I want.
Training supersedes everything. It’s the story I base my life on. [/i]
Tried tamfb’s workout on the most recent pool workout thread, it was tiring:
10 x 45" runs w/15" rests
(rest: 3 x 50m easy breast stroke)
10 x 45" runs w/15" rests
(rest: 3 x 50m easy back kicking)
10 x 45" runs w/15" rests
(cool down: 3 x 50m easy brast stroke)
LIFE:
Bike back home.
30min bike to the downtown track to meet someone
Jogged a little (3 laps it must have been… it felt awful, I was wearing wrong shoes too)
30min bike home
[i]Note: I hate going to the central track… Nobody minds their business, everybody stares, with the look of: “who are you and why do you keep showing up here at random moments?”
Coaches are the worst.
If you have something to tell me, go ahead, I won’t kick you, I swear.
I eventually went to talk to a coach that I know, and this other annoying one took the chance and started asking me questions (just because he was sitting right next to us), wanting to know my events (like I know what my events are), and asking to recruit me in his club.
… Like I’m willing to go get coached by a stranger… At this stage of my physical well being… :rolleyes: Pulease. [/i]
Pool Note: I love blue…
LIFE AGAIN:
Going to Florence to paint for a week, this coming Sunday I’ll train there too. I’m very much looking forward.
1 hr biking. I’m tired of that hill to get home. Oh well.
HILLS:
I did something “daring” today. When I got to my hill, there were 8 stray dogs that had conquered it, laying lazily under the tree shades. I thought about changing a hill, but I didn’t have any nice second options, so just ignored all the dogs (they soon became 9), and practiced among them . They were watching at first interested, and soon with indifference. Some fell asleep. Pfew.
5 x 30m, 2’ rests
5’ rest
5 x 30m, 2’ rests
5’ rest
1 x 40m
There was more on paper, but I don’t want to talk about it… :mad: (nothing to do with the stray dogs).
I’ll just say that I was in knee-pain when I got to the track, and as soon as I made my quads hurt from all the MB hop throws and running A’s, the knee stopped hurting.
Probably a dumb question, but how is your calf flexibility, gastroc and soleus? On the same note, what is your injury history with your knees or other joints?
Sorry for the questions, but I want to try and get an idea of what’s going on.
Calves have always been tight, although better due to isos the past 6 months or so.
Knee history: chondromalacia, plica syndrome, and the most recent is a kneecap vertical fracture.
Of course shin splint history.
Left calf was experiencing frequent minor 1st degree tears last year.
Stefanie
Do you think that your knees are ready to do a 1 hour bike ride up hills; thats putting quite a bit of strain on those knees. Also there is a product out called “CeytlPure” by Natrol which is a naturally occuring fatty acid for joint health and helps nourish cartilage. You may want to take a look into it; I have had good success with it because I to have a bad knee. GOOD LUCK!
Do you do much direct stretching for your calves? How about deep tissue massage on them? From the sound of things it would seem your overly tight calves are at the root of all your problems.
Hopefully my trip to Florence does me some psychosomatic good. …
rj24, thanks as well, I’ve been fighting with my calves since eternity, and as I said, they are looser with isometrics nowadays. I’ve been massaging them with tennis ball and all that.
I just quit writing about therapy in my journal, to perhaps shift my luck.
Today was the “alternative day”, but somehow ended up to the TRACK:
30min easy jog
15min MB abs
KICKBOXING:
one hour medium intensity of various drills (still sweating profusely…kickboxing does that). I loved teeping today, and my cross is coming back stronger than before.
I am back home again, after a very adventurous and interesting week in Florence… playing the tourist, the wandering artist, the thinking philosopher, the track athlete…
I lived in a hostel, so I met a dozen of solitary and interesting backpackers travelling around Europe, and befriended a few.
Important lesson learned from a couple: “It’s OK to spend money that you don’t have”. :rolleyes:
A number of them took out bank loans just to travel all around the globe, and they are enjoying every minute of it, of course. Backpackers came, and backpackers left, sharing experiences, exchanging pictures, drawings and sketches… many left home for weeks at a time to “Find their true selves”, and what they really want to do in life upon their returns home. Some had been to more than 30 cities, with a couple left to go, still searching for their answers. I am sure they will find them hidden along the way, reaching back to transparent messages and life’s connections that tell beautiful long stories… as long as they listen close enough, of course.
And all this surrounding uncertainty, certainly left me comforted with the fact that my life is in complete self-oblivion and unresolution. A state that perhaps we always want to be in… offering ourselves daily painful enlightment!
Pakewi was there for the second half of my trip, and whatever I type is trifling concerning another such experience, on various levels.
Training-wise, I am going off my started September pattern until I resolve some issues of mine that are stubbornly making me track-miserable, to say the least.
Stef, I think you need some good ole’ fashioned-back to the Hartford Glory Days-only people at Weaver at 5am-Lifting with impunity-Running without fear-Ice Cream only on Saturdays-running with Chris and I, training!!!
Remember, sometimes less is more-and when you don’t think you can lift it, just do what I do-laugh and add another 5lbs!
I miss you back in the states-training is not the same without you!!!
Last time I laughed at pain, I did some more and cracked a bone. By the way, that is controversial with your less is more statement, don’t you think? =)
It’s so annoying here, people don’t know me at all track-wise, and yesterday I heard this absurd comment because I am not training: “you are not determined enough”. I hung up the phone. I am not going to try and explain myself to anyone, besides, only people like you would know about the kind of athlete I am.
(I am going to Amsterdam on Thursday to watch an ARP seminar. Ben, you would love the ARP. )
I’ll train there too. I’m very much looking forward.
. They were watching at first interested, and soon with indifference. Some fell asleep. Pfew.
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