I’m with Dave, not a fun game at all. It sounds more like a ‘tempting fate’ game

100% not participating in this "game".  Regardless of how long one's list might or might not be, it's never going to get any shorter.

Thanks for the answers to my training question. My marathon training (16 weeks out) plan starts officially on August 6th I think, but I wanted to finish a summer race series which has its last race on August 4th, and it's an 8k. I might just start base training soon and let the chips fall where they may regarding my next 3 races (6k, 4 miler, 8k).

flavio: It might be easier if I saw a PR progression, but I'll take a stab and say 2017 based on the dramatic difference in missed weeks from 2016 to 2017, but maybe that's a trap lol.

Wow Flavio I didn't realize you cracked 2K miles last year. That's amazing.

 

100% not participating in this "game".  Regardless of how long one's list might or might not be, it's never going to get any shorter.

I'm gonna be that annoying pedantic person.   JMAC specified last 5 years.  So....if you manage to string together 5 injury free years, you have a clean slate....

Flavio- that certainly is a testament to strengthwork.

When you refer to "weeks missed" does that mean weeks where you did nothing?  Or weeks where you did not run?  The two are very different, I think.

 

I'm gonna be that annoying pedantic person.   JMAC specified last 5 years.  So....if you manage to string together 5 injury free years, you have a clean slate....

 

Not quite but I'm still not going to jinx it!  And even if the list was 0... it still couldn't get any shorter 

 

I'm gonna be that annoying pedantic person.   JMAC specified last 5 years.  So....if you manage to string together 5 injury free years, you have a clean slate you’re a freak. 

 

FYP

DW - Prior to 2017 I’d just stop running. After I started strength training I rarely get injuries. I did strength training through the lockdown, but had to do mostly bodyweight and geared towards endurance and cardio, since no equipment and I wanted some form of cardio to keep myself sane.

And when I got the nasty cold bouts there’s not much I can do but rest and wait the clock.

I used to catch many colds due to overexerting myself. Think doing a 7x1000@5k pace instead of usual 5x, just a tiny bit more.

Then I took the flu shot back in 2019 and those sort of disappeared until late last year.

I suppose I was way behind in the software updates 😁

Mark - you are right, the last time we spoke about being injury free I jinxed you 😈

me - My week completed. We moved to a different apartment this week. I'm exhausted both mentally and physically and that is considering all we have fit in 4 Uber rides.

The plan for today was 90' E.

First there was some lightning in the horizon, but I counted the seconds between the flash and the thunder and it was over 10s so I figured I was fine.

Then on the way back I got accosted by a stray dog. Mofo wouldn't let me run it would jump on my legs, it wanted me to walk. So I walked while trying to think of a solution. I was trying to see if any of the fences could potentially be open so I could try to shove it in that front yard.

But nothing seemed to work. So I thought to try and catch a ride, but no cards passing in that direction.

Then I made into a gas station store, there the little f****r couldn't follow me.

I could tell the store clerk was immensely pissed off at me, but whatever, what could I do.

So I waited and waited. The dog was not going away and was harassing the gas station clients.

At desperate times, the stupid ideas come.

I started asking the customers if any of them would give me a 300m lift so I could get rid of the dog. But I was in short shorts and sweaty, that was never going to work, I know I would not give me a lift in that situation.

I had no money on me (stupid mistake) or else I could wait for the bus and get onboard, then jump off on the next stop.

No phone either to hail an Uber or the like.

After a very long time (40 minutes) some other poor soul walked past that street and the dog started following them. I waited a bit, then got out, but they were going in the only direction I could go.

Of course I forgot completely that I could try to navigate and use Garmin maps.

So I jumped on a side street and tried to catch the parallel street (mind you this is the suburbs), hoping to somehow merge back into the main street eventually. Either that or I would end up somewhere 10 miles away from home.

But it worked.

I was so pissed off the whole time. Portugal is relative civilized and clear of off the leash dogs (Unlike Italy)

I'm sure I will not be taking that road again.

Weekly for period: From: 27/06/2022 To 03/07/2022

Total distance: 59.92km / 196587 feet if you have really bit feet, fewer if you have gigantic feet

_{37 miles}

58 miles/93 of those smaller things, 3 hours pool-running, and 1500 ~yards swimming.

M: 90 minutes pool-running and streaming yoga.
T: 11 miles, including 4x1200, 2x400 in 5:09, 5:01, 4:58, 4:56, 93, and 95. Recoveries were 2:3x-2:5x between the 1200s and full recovery between the 400s. Followed with leg strengthwork, and 500 yards recovery swimming.
W: Streaming yoga, 11 miles (9:44) and drills/strides.
Th: 90 minutes pool-running and upper body weights/core.
F: 12 miles, including a mixed workout of 3x10 seconds hard on a 6% hill, then 2x2K on the track with 3 minutes jog (splits 8:50 and 8:42), jogged back to hill for 6 hill repeats, each lasting 45 seconds, with two sets of easy effort, moderate effort, hard effort, before returning to track for 2K, 400m, with 3:10 jog between the two (splits 8:42 and 1:37). Followed with leg strengthwork and 500 meters recovery swimming.
Sa: 10 miles (9:55), drills/strides, and streaming yoga.
Su: 10 miles, including 2400m in 10:51, 5 minutes jog, and 2x8x200m with 200m jog after each and 400m jog between sets. Most of these were around 50-51 seconds. Later did another 4 miles very easy (10:10). Followed with leg strengthwork, and 500 yards recovery swimming.

The weekday runs all felt so much better (this was my first set of track workouts on Artane). Not 100% better, but I was definitely more stable and loose and able to extend my stride a bit more.

Per the doctor's instructions, I experimented with upping the dose this weekend, going from a half tablet (1mg) to a full tablet (2mg) on both Saturday and Sunday. The result was that I didn't feel any more improvement on the higher dose, but my legs did feel weaker. I ran a set of 200m repeats that were all slower than some of my 1200m repeats on Tuesday, and then went to the gym where I deadlifted 30 pounds less than I usually do. So I think I need to stick with 1mg.