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Re: Building A Better Bumblebee
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!
Take care of that cough!
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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.
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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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 donkrichards 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.
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Tom H wrote: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 donkrichards 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.
I've no doubt you'd have an absolutely blast scampering around the countryside. You should try it!
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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...
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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Tom H wrote: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 donkrichards 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.
Say's Tom who recently completed an ironman!
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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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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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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.
My hope is that maybe it'll be through with me by next week? Pretty please? This is getting old.
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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.
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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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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.
Just don't stare at my avatar. It'll make you verrrrrrrry sleeeeepy.
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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.
Just don't stare at my avatar. It'll make you verrrrrrrry sleeeeepy.
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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Well Mark, the best thing about the plague you've contracted is that there is a full state between you and me right now
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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
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.
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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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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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This is poetry.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.
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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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Mike MacLellan wrote:This is poetry.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.
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...
Ahem. Well, sometimes things slip through the cracks.
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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.
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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Durn tootin'!Mark B wrote:Mike MacLellan wrote:This is poetry.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.
Indeed. We accept only the highest quality posts in this blog. Quality, after all.
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9 year old shoes, really?
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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.:
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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That is great life out of those shoes.
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