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Post  nkrichards Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:04 pm

Looks like a smart plan to me Mark. Dialing back to a couple 50K's next year should give your body time to adapt to those nice strong calves and give you time to prepare for another 50 miler in the future.

Take care of that cough!
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Post  Mark B Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:53 pm

nkrichards wrote:Looks like a smart plan to me Mark.  Dialing back to a couple 50K's next year should give your body time to adapt to those nice strong calves and give you time to prepare for another 50 miler in the future.

Take care of that cough!

Thanks, Nancy! I'm getting better, bit by bit. I'll be happy when this has completely cleared my system. It was a bear.

And I think you're right on the strategy. There may never be a time where patience is more important for me.
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Post  Tom H Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:20 pm

nkrichards wrote:Looks like a smart plan to me Mark.  Dialing back to a couple 50K's next year should give your body time to adapt to those nice strong calves and give you time to prepare for another 50 miler in the future.
Hee, hee, hee.  Last race you and I actively obsessed over together was Eugene, a mere marathon now for you.  It warms the cockles of my heart to see that you are now 'dialing back to a couple of 50K's'.  Clearly, I've got some catching up to do Running
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Post  Mark B Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:10 pm

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nkrichards wrote:Looks like a smart plan to me Mark.  Dialing back to a couple 50K's next year should give your body time to adapt to those nice strong calves and give you time to prepare for another 50 miler in the future.
Hee, hee, hee.  Last race you and I actively obsessed over together was Eugene, a mere marathon now for you.  It warms the cockles of my heart to see that you are now 'dialing back to a couple of 50K's'.  Clearly, I've got some catching up to do Running

I've no doubt you'd have an absolutely blast scampering around the countryside. You should try it!

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Post  Mark B Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:12 pm

Stumbled upon a good blog post that suggests three very good strength and coordination drills for trail running.

Here's the link: 3 Must-Do Drills for Trail Runners

I can't help but notice just how important the calf muscles are to each of these movements. Hm...
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Post  nkrichards Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:45 pm

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nkrichards wrote:Looks like a smart plan to me Mark.  Dialing back to a couple 50K's next year should give your body time to adapt to those nice strong calves and give you time to prepare for another 50 miler in the future.
Hee, hee, hee.  Last race you and I actively obsessed over together was Eugene, a mere marathon now for you.  It warms the cockles of my heart to see that you are now 'dialing back to a couple of 50K's'.  Clearly, I've got some catching up to do Running

Say's Tom who recently completed an ironman!
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Post  nkrichards Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:56 pm

Mark B wrote:Stumbled upon a good blog post that suggests three very good strength and coordination drills for trail running.

Here's the link: 3 Must-Do Drills for Trail Runners

I can't help but notice just how important the calf muscles are to each of these movements.  Hm...

Thanks for the link Mark...I've been trying to figure out some drills to add to my weekly routine and these look like a great start.

One question though...when do I do them? Before a run? After a run? Completely separate from a run? I can see pros/cons to each option. Not sure I'd get dressed/motivated to do them at a separate time but maybe I could convince myself to do them on a cross training day(??). If I did them before a run would I then be to tired to accomplish the desired goals of the training run? If I did them after a run would I be to tired to complete the drills correctly?
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Post  Mark B Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:17 pm

nkrichards wrote:
Mark B wrote:Stumbled upon a good blog post that suggests three very good strength and coordination drills for trail running.

Here's the link: 3 Must-Do Drills for Trail Runners

I can't help but notice just how important the calf muscles are to each of these movements.  Hm...

Thanks for the link Mark...I've been trying to figure out some drills to add to my weekly routine and these look like a great start.  

One question though...when do I do them?  Before a run?  After a run?  Completely separate from a run?  I can see pros/cons to each option.  Not sure I'd get dressed/motivated to do them at a separate time but maybe I could convince myself to do them on a cross training day(??).  If I did them before a run would I then be to tired to accomplish the desired goals of the training run?  If I did them after a run would I be to tired to complete the drills correctly?

Good question. I really don't know. Maybe on a cross-training day?
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Post  Mark B Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:10 pm

Well, it's been 10 days since I started showing symptoms, and 9 days since I started hacking my lungs out (nothing like people at work speculating among themselves if you have walking pneumonia), and I'm still not totally over this cold/cough yet. I think the worst is over, but I'm still coughing enough to get everybody's attention. Sheesh.

My hope is that maybe it'll be through with me by next week? Pretty please? This is getting old.
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Post  ounce Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:30 pm

Mark B wrote:Well, it's been 10 days since I started showing symptoms, and 9 days since I started hacking my lungs out (nothing like people at work speculating among themselves if you have walking pneumonia), and I'm still not totally over this cold/cough yet. I think the worst is over, but I'm still coughing enough to get everybody's attention. Sheesh.

My hope is that maybe it'll be through with me by next week? Pretty please? This is getting old.

If there's a pot going on when you go to the doctor, buy me a couple of squares for Monday.

And I wouldn't worry about the people at work.  That is, until they start taking inventory of your office supplies or personal effects that is guised as just a not-so-normal conversation at your cube.  Then, I would either worry or have a garage sale or both.
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Post  Mark B Thu Nov 06, 2014 2:34 pm

ounce wrote:
Mark B wrote:Well, it's been 10 days since I started showing symptoms, and 9 days since I started hacking my lungs out (nothing like people at work speculating among themselves if you have walking pneumonia), and I'm still not totally over this cold/cough yet. I think the worst is over, but I'm still coughing enough to get everybody's attention. Sheesh.

My hope is that maybe it'll be through with me by next week? Pretty please? This is getting old.

If there's a pot going on when you go to the doctor, buy me a couple of squares for Monday.

And I wouldn't worry about the people at work.  That is, until they start taking inventory of your office supplies or personal effects that is guised as just a not-so-normal conversation at your cube.  Then, I would either worry or have a garage sale or both.

Hahahaha-cough-cough-cough-hahaha-cough-cough-cough!

Thanks, Ounce. If I'm still coughing next Monday, I may visit the doc. But I've been to docs enough times to know that all they will say is that it's a virus, that it needs to work its way through the system, and that antibiotics are useless and ill-advised. Last time they told me that, I was hacking up crap for a month. They didn't care, and I haven't forgotten.
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Post  ounce Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:30 pm

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Mark B wrote:Well, it's been 10 days since I started showing symptoms, and 9 days since I started hacking my lungs out (nothing like people at work speculating among themselves if you have walking pneumonia), and I'm still not totally over this cold/cough yet. I think the worst is over, but I'm still coughing enough to get everybody's attention. Sheesh.

My hope is that maybe it'll be through with me by next week? Pretty please? This is getting old.

If there's a pot going on when you go to the doctor, buy me a couple of squares for Monday.

And I wouldn't worry about the people at work.  That is, until they start taking inventory of your office supplies or personal effects that is guised as just a not-so-normal conversation at your cube.  Then, I would either worry or have a garage sale or both.

Hahahaha-cough-cough-cough-hahaha-cough-cough-cough!

Thanks, Ounce. If I'm still coughing next Monday, I may visit the doc. But I've been to docs enough times to know that all they will say is that it's a virus, that it needs to work its way through the system, and that antibiotics are useless and ill-advised. Last time they told me that, I was hacking up crap for a month. They didn't care, and I haven't forgotten.

That is very true on the viruses.  And since you've rounded the corner (and presumably no one else has caught it at work), you know what works best (but has a lung-ectomy crossed your mind?).  If the Ebola stories hadn't been in play, I'd wear an auto body shop paint ventilator (mask) just to give you a hard time.  It's how I roll. Rolling Eyes

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Post  Mark B Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:45 pm

ounce wrote:
Mark B wrote:
ounce wrote:
Mark B wrote:Well, it's been 10 days since I started showing symptoms, and 9 days since I started hacking my lungs out (nothing like people at work speculating among themselves if you have walking pneumonia), and I'm still not totally over this cold/cough yet. I think the worst is over, but I'm still coughing enough to get everybody's attention. Sheesh.

My hope is that maybe it'll be through with me by next week? Pretty please? This is getting old.

If there's a pot going on when you go to the doctor, buy me a couple of squares for Monday.

And I wouldn't worry about the people at work.  That is, until they start taking inventory of your office supplies or personal effects that is guised as just a not-so-normal conversation at your cube.  Then, I would either worry or have a garage sale or both.

Hahahaha-cough-cough-cough-hahaha-cough-cough-cough!

Thanks, Ounce. If I'm still coughing next Monday, I may visit the doc. But I've been to docs enough times to know that all they will say is that it's a virus, that it needs to work its way through the system, and that antibiotics are useless and ill-advised. Last time they told me that, I was hacking up crap for a month. They didn't care, and I haven't forgotten.

That is very true on the viruses.  And since you've rounded the corner (and presumably no one else has caught it at work), you know what works best (but has a lung-ectomy crossed your mind?).  If the Ebola stories hadn't been in play, I'd wear an auto body shop paint ventilator (mask) just to give you a hard time.  It's how I roll. Rolling Eyes

Just don't stare at my avatar.  It'll make you verrrrrrrry sleeeeepy.

Sleep Sleep Sleep

Anyway... it seems to have plateaued and maybe mutated somewhat, because now I'm getting the start of more traditional cold symptoms. Still coughing, though, and still low on energy. Not surprised, because Alita's cold followed the same interminable path. She's really not over it yet, and she had it a week before I did. At least she was spared the aqualung experiment.
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Post  Tom H Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:23 pm

Well Mark, the best thing about the plague you've contracted is that there is a full state between you and me right now Smile
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Post  Mark B Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:13 pm

Tom H wrote:Well Mark, the best thing about the plague you've contracted is that there is a full state between you and me right now Smile

You are lucky. So far, three co-workers are now out sick with symptoms similar to mine, and one more has early symtoms but is roughing it out.

The term "Patient Zero" has been broached. pale
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Post  Tom H Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:40 am

Turning 'broached' into 'lynched' only requires a few letters be replaced, and I hear that the folks you work with are pretty good with words. Watch your back, cowboy.
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Post  Mark B Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:56 am

Tom H wrote:Turning 'broached' into 'lynched' only requires a few letters be replaced, and I hear that the folks you work with are pretty good with words. Watch your back, cowboy.

Thank goodness there's no emoticon for that...
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Post  Mike MacLellan Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:17 pm

Tom H wrote:Turning 'broached' into 'lynched' only requires a few letters be replaced, and I hear that the folks you work with are pretty good with words. Watch your back, cowboy.
This is poetry.
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Post  Tom H Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:30 pm

Mark B wrote:
Tom H wrote:Turning 'broached' into 'lynched' only requires a few letters be replaced, and I hear that the folks you work with are pretty good with words. Watch your back, cowboy.

Thank goodness there's no emoticon for that...

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Post  Mark B Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:59 pm

Mike MacLellan wrote:
Tom H wrote:Turning 'broached' into 'lynched' only requires a few letters be replaced, and I hear that the folks you work with are pretty good with words. Watch your back, cowboy.
This is poetry.

Indeed. We accept only the highest quality posts in this blog. Quality, after all.

Tom H wrote:
Mark B wrote:
Tom H wrote:Turning 'broached' into 'lynched' only requires a few letters be replaced, and I hear that the folks you work with are pretty good with words. Watch your back, cowboy.

Thank goodness there's no emoticon for that...

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Ahem. Well, sometimes things slip through the cracks.
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Post  Mark B Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:08 pm

I'm slowly feeling better, bit by bit, just in time for me to notice some achy feelings in the peroneal muscle that gave me so much trouble earlier this year. What the heck? I'm not running. Heck, I'm not even taking long walks. So what's stressing it?

One theory: My work shoes are getting worn out after nine years, and my foot is doing in them what it was doing in some defective Altras I had at the time. It could be torquing my ankle unnecessarily.

Second theory: I have long had a bad habit of trying to "ground" myself when I'm sitting in a chair. That often means grinding my foot into the floor without even realizing it. Or otherwise twisting and torquing that ankle.

Either way, its bothersome. But I'm trying to figure out how to counteract it. I did 5x10 calf raises this morning on each leg, trying to wake up the old calf muscles so they can start taking some of the abuse, and maybe that'll help. I also jogged a tiny bit in my Lunas as I came back from the mailbox, just to get the blood flowing a tiny bit. I'll also need to go shoe shopping, pronto.
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Post  ounce Fri Nov 07, 2014 5:37 pm

Mark B wrote:
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Tom H wrote:Turning 'broached' into 'lynched' only requires a few letters be replaced, and I hear that the folks you work with are pretty good with words. Watch your back, cowboy.
This is poetry.

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Post  Jim Lentz Sat Nov 08, 2014 6:44 pm

9 year old shoes, really?
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Post  Mark B Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:30 pm

Jim Lentz wrote:9 year old shoes, really?

Really! They're a pair of Ecco shoes -- can't remember the exact model, but they're similar to this one.:

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They've been very good for work -- nice enough for a newsroom without being too dressy, and very well-suited for taking walks at lunch. The uppers of the shoes I have are still holding up quite well -- it's the heel unit that's finally giving up the ghost.

When I go shoe shopping, I'll definitely consider that brand, but I'll also look at some of the other varieties, especially ones that offer a more barefoot feel. I never did like clunky shoes.
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Post  Jim Lentz Sun Nov 09, 2014 12:43 pm

That is great life out of those shoes.
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