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Wow, your friend did great. You’re right it definitely sounds boring but when you’re in it you realize mentally its a wild ride. The logistics stuff you learn and mental and physical lessons are really phenomenal too. I’ve always thought one of the big advantages of women in these races seems to be that they walk more efficiently and at a brisker pace than a lot of guys did. I never did quite manage to master it but it seemed like the women in general jogged slightly slower but then hiked at like a 15 minute pace vs my leisurely 20 which would add up big time.
Let me know how your quads feel when you try to walk down steps tomorrow. Usually day T+2 is peak soreness.
Good point. Yeah I was thinking the same thing.
So to avoid this, I figure if I cycle tonight, then I won’t be sore tomorrow. It’s raining now though but I don’t care so no music and I don’t care. My importance on having music while working out is a lot less now after spending so much time with nature.
I’m definitely in a high endorphin state. All day. I think cycling might provide some balance to start the week, neurochemically.
I owe a lot of time to my MMA gyms this week and told my Muay Thai coach I want to fight in March and he hasn’t said yay/nay yet and probably won’t tell me until Feb, but he’s opening a new location too so it’s all complicated.
So I have only Mon Tue to hit up hopefully 10 classes between two gyms. I was planning on taking Mon morn off (no gi), but I really sucked last comp in no gi, so have to go tomorrow morning if I’m not dead. I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like my coaches don’t understand the effort I’m making to go to so many technical classes. Like when I miss a class it’s because I’m cycling or training for something else; it’s not like I’m sitting on the couch. But, if I’m not there, I’m not there.
100% max sched Mon / Tue:
mon
no gi (morning)
day - possible bagwork
night
gi drilling
gi advanced
boxing
sparring
tue
no gi / morning
day - possible bag work
night:
Muay Thai
boxing
sparring
Was planning on cycling too Mon/Tue, but who knows - my coaches know I did the trail run. Monday is somewhat optional for me as I specifically told my coaches it was optional for me. I said I might make it in/ I might not. Developing a bit clearer channels of communication with my MMA coaches and us being facebook friends and for them to see my schedule has has helped a lot. I wasn’t on Facebook for 2 yrs or something but had to come back on and this was one of the reasons. Multi sport athletes get a lot of shit I feel at MMA gyms, but I view the sports as helping my mind and body which is the heart of my potential as a fighter.
Wed morning I might be able to do a class or bagwork. I’m trying to make a small poker tournament at 7pm on Wed at Harrahs in NC, then another small tournament Thurs in Hollywood Casino St. Louis, then snowboarding Brek on Sunday for the open in CO Nov 11/12/13.
Really glad I can walk and stuff after that Ultra. Didn’t know what limits I wanted to put my body through…
This girl and I had a moment in the race. We chatted on FB messenger today and she recommended a good trail run to do in Jan - a 50K.
She said it is ‘muddy’ sometimes, but it looks fun to me and 31mi doesn’t sound that bad after yesterday…
Look into either the shoes brainwash or me recommended if you’re going to keep running trails and get either smartwool or darn tuff socks. Yeah, good point about the music, I alluded to that earlier in this thread I think. On really long stuff not having music can actually help retain some mental energy. A light cycle wouldn’t hurt, just be really careful about going hard for a couple days, good to let your body gradually come back.
This one girl wrote to me today:
”you do Ultra races for the community”
So, we are there for others as they are there for us. But, I noticed some people were intimately familiar with each other and it seems like 1/4 of that race was group of these Ultra hippies in a tight knit group just loving life meeting up and doing these races. It’s a vibe there in the spirit of what I see in the 70.3 races, but I would say a much higher level of oxytocin levels in the Ultra group. They are addicted to getting through these tough times with each other. I’m just very impressed with yesterday. I think I’m some way, BS you knew I was stepping into this community element. I’m sure you miss it. It is a time suck though in training.
Cool - yeah shoes are important.
I brought oversized headphones with me for 47mi - in some way, I didn’t want to leave them. When I was low on food or nutrients the headphones helped me to focus and just power through.
These tasted soooooo good. I brought the bag with me at 34mi or so…
Ohhh damn you pinned that down too!
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Luckily I just got a new phone - iPhone Xs and the battery is really good I feel. It lasted a long ass time.
I crossed I-17 looking like a lunatic holding my Pringle’s and I phone for light, peeking out the top. Dark ass night, cars whizzing by going like 80mph… what the fuck haha
Like honestly when you’re moving 2-4mph and have to cross an Interstate, it’s like freaking frogger. The cars are hauling hauling ass and your ability to do your normal lil jog across the street might not be there…
Yeah, BS, I don’t do anything in the ultra category, actually do very little racing. I just enjoy running and it so happened that I drove out to my folks and they took the kid to an alpaca farm so I had a few hours to enjoy the outdoors. I think I’ll do a shorter trail race when given the opportunity but logging regular miles doesn’t fit into my current lifestyle.
Congrats, Isaiah, sounds like you had fun and learned a lot. The remote feeling is great. One time I was out running on a trail and it was getting dark (was in Alabama for work, so it wasn’t a trail I knew) and so I was rushing home, running down hill. As I turned a corner, still pretty out in the woods, there was a big stag with massive antlers about 100 feet down trail. We regarded each other and then it slowly just walked off into the woods. That type of thing is why I like running, especially trails.
Awesome, perfect day out there.
My spinal column did some heavy adjustments in the 30s and 40s that were very fucked up, but it felt like my disks were all aligning in a way to be perfectly efficient for my run form and they stayed like that post race and right now. My spine hasn’t felt this medically ‘perfect’ ever. I’ve had scoliosis among a myriad of other things and just feel very balanced today, my spine hasn’t felt like this ever before. I wasn’t expecting this at all.
In a certain way in the mid 30s, my brain told my spine that it had to cooperate or face the consequences to the whole body. So the spine did work. I get weird shit on my right arm when it adjusts sometimes, but it feels completely gone now.
Like my spine would adjust and I’d have to pop it in, and one of the things is like a zap to the right arm. Feels like a wall socket.
All of that feel gone and my whole upper body is in tandem. I am like an efficiency machine now.