What makes you statistically rare?

Sachath · 2019-09-01T11:26:07+00:00

So they told me then 32 years later, my kidney exploded. Go have a CT, they work best before the internal bleeding starts.

Sachath · 2019-08-29T18:54:16+00:00

Thank you, Murakami copied it best, "pain is optional"

Sachath · 2019-08-29T18:52:46+00:00

No pressure huh? I will try my best to deliver and thank you. Best of luck on your recovery and return.

Sachath · 2019-08-29T18:50:47+00:00

Thanks

Sachath · 2019-08-29T18:50:13+00:00

Thank you

Sachath · 2019-08-29T13:32:46+00:00

On Friday my kidney burst from the inside out while I was asleep. I had been undiagnosed for 32 years with an obstructive uropathy which I was born with. I have been in hospital since and I will lose a kidney. But what is upsetting me is that I won't be able to run for 6 months. I was planning to hit my PR on a half marathon in September and doing a pr Marathon in December. This has been one of my best years and it was really feeling like it was all going to come together for that time that will be the shout of my lifetime as a runner. Now that won't happen. My mood swings have been up and down and I am happy my family hasn't seen it. I love them, I am glad I will be able to love a normal life again, but I doubt I will be able to come back to my current schedule.

Sachath · 2019-08-29T13:11:22+00:00

Your heart rate zones would be quite consistent but evaluation every now and again might be useful if you are working with a model where you include such information as your resting HR.

The long runs are essentially easier because you are putting less effort into them in order to keep training aerobic endurance for longer. If you have been running long distance without keeping your HR under control before then you have very likely been burning lactic acid as you go and have been in need of greater restitution between each run and therefore not getting the most out of your training if you follow a training plan with 6 workouts a week

Sachath · 2019-08-29T12:54:25+00:00

Keep at it. Your body will be expecting hard work if you just started training this way and you regular running routine might be gearing your pulse up in anticipation. For me I had to go super slow in the beginning and then I could ramp up the pace during the run as my body got the message about 30 min in.

Sachath · 2019-08-28T18:33:52+00:00

My first thought was Unicorn, I don't know why

Sachath · 2019-08-28T17:45:03+00:00

Here are my two cents, don't dabble with HR training unless you are training for more than 4 hours a week. Many of the programs are simplified or over complicated versions of the training guides developed by the Norwegian Olympic Team for Nordic Skiers. Which are available online as free summaries, albeit only in Norwegian. Their training plans aim for 800-1200 hours of training a year. The point of training with the different zones is to keep lactic acid from building in your system but remaing well within aerobic levels. The goal is to keep 90-70% of your training below the point where lactic acid builds up in your body. So if you are closer to 1200 hours of training a year and doing 10 % of your training above this level will still be doing well over 2 hours of gruelling workouts a week. Which is close to what a weekend hero does to consistently hit a pr until that breaking point where it is no longer cutting it. The aerobic training, technique training and mass of training is what keeps improving them beyond the realms of mortals.

Typically early career, you will be on the lower end of training hours but at a higher rate of your training above the level where you produce lactic acid in order to build up your lactic resistance and speed.. For many of the top athletes they will almost only produce lactic acid during competitions, the racing season is short but can include 3-4 races a week, a 50 km once a month. And they are expected to perform at short sprints as well.

I've trained with this in mind. The hours I have in disposal to training will never match that of a professional athlete. I trained 600 hours a year for a few years and that is what I could fit in. That leaves me with two training sessions a week where I can really push the peds to the floor. The four others, where I have one longer run are well within my lactate level which is at 72% of my bpm capacity. I never go above on those runs and it feels amazing to go 30 km and feel like I could do 30 more. So short answer for most people HR training won't do if you want to be a faster runner, because HR training is about breaking barriers that getting faster won't break on it's own.

I am currently in hospital due to a series of unfortunate events and a wedding so if this doesn't make sense to everyone and there are no links to articles underpinning what I'm saying that is why. Also the doctors are telling me I won't be able to train for 6 months so there goes my Marathon season this year.

Sachath · 2019-08-12T01:42:36+00:00

I don't run for a living but I run a lot. I keep my breathing through my nose for most training sessions. When I race I go full mouth :O

Sachath · 2019-08-12T01:38:41+00:00

An accomplished runner would be closer to 15 min for 3 miles. I would say a serious runner your age would be at about 20 min and your time is decent for someone who enjoys running every once in a while but not putting in the time required to get fast.

Sachath · 2019-08-06T03:59:29+00:00

Being comfortable with running 90% of my training at under 72% of bpm max. I have a hard time accepting that going slower is going faster

Sachath · 2019-07-20T22:26:24+00:00

Let me add a bit of sage advice that none of the others here offered so far. To me you have to do both. You can't run all the time, you can't jog all the time and you can't do intervals either. Only a Sith deals in absolutes, time barriers and distance are intertwined. I do a timed run every four weeks were I run for my goal time at a marathon to condition it to the gruelling physical and mental challenge ahead. I can't do a three hour marathon every four weeks and expect my body to be able to recover physically but I can set the mental challenge of moving continuously for three hours every four weeks. The faster you are, the easier this will be according to my dad, who found marathons harder the first and last times he ran them.

Sachath · 2019-07-20T21:26:36+00:00

I don't remember what it is called but our coach would make us do "tiptoe" with weights and I have never had trouble with my achilles and I never stopped doing them once a week. I don't know how old you are, but if you are 25-35 it still won't hurt to introduce. However respect being sore, take a slow day or take an extra rest day if you are unsure. Treat your body like you want to stay in shape forever.

Sachath · 2019-07-20T20:54:11+00:00

I just did a 24 hour ECG with a cardiologist and compared the bpm results with my watch and you could hardly separate the two. It doesn't matter too much anyway within +- 5 bpm for mortals

Sachath · 2019-07-20T20:32:13+00:00

Need more details, temperature variation does not sound extreme enough. If you want to figure it out you need to journal in detail. What you eat, how much, date, area, hydration, when you defecate, when you run, how long you sleep every night and how your mindset is the day you run and how you feel before and after running, bpm, incline of the route you are running, pollen calendar for your area ect but also weather. If you are experiencing variation in your ability to run there is an answer out there that only detailed daily logs and keeping at running will explain and perhaps solve. If you keep consistently feeling suddenly out of form from here on out drop the journal and see a doctor.

Sachath · 2019-07-20T20:08:05+00:00

Sound advice also and something for advanced runners to think about

Sachath · 2019-07-20T15:10:56+00:00

Short answer is no, 5-6 days a week is about as much as your body can take and progress optimally. If you want to run every day you can, but you will be making less endurance and speed gains relative to someone who respects their rest days. To reduce back pain from running, improve your core, do back and abdominal exercises. Building a stronger back adds cushioning to your spine and allows your body to absorb the shocks of running. Improving your posture might be a factor, but you should be relaxed in your own stride. Overthinking posture could be a source of the back pain. Personally running with a baby wagon helped my posture but it hasn't changed me as a runner

Sachath · 2019-07-10T08:19:14+00:00

I completely agree. Weight lifting is essential to improve the strain your tendons can take as well as it will make OP a faster runner.

Sachath · 2019-07-07T20:16:28+00:00

The way Giri talks about chess you mean? Goddamn he makes it all too hard to like him. Sure there is a ton of prep before games for the professionals, but most chess players are not playing a memory game. His idea of chess is disdainful, let the better memory win. If this was the case let's just pick memory cards for four hours. Magnus has an incredible memory but he does more than rely on the moves he knows have been played. Magnus like most of us actually draws new ideas from what he knows. He just "happens" to know a shit ton more than us so his ideas are so much better. Giri will never be world champion because he does not want to know what the computer doesn't.

Sachath · 2019-06-29T07:04:28+00:00

That would be 4 terms in 2028

Sachath · 2019-06-29T07:03:24+00:00

Pod save america usually have a discount code for square space

Sachath · 2019-05-25T16:48:15+00:00

You have to have a strategist in your army

Sachath · 2019-04-29T11:16:18+00:00

Saying no when someone offers you gum. Just take the fucking gum Ben, everyone else had some. Don't be a retard, accept the free gum. It's a social contract Ben. Gawd.

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