Tue 27 Jan 26: Wow -- almost closing out January. Eleven more to go --- Knee were a bit stiff today -- guess two days of rest were finally catching up to it -- next two of course will be relative R&R. Lap 1: 4:01 - nothing to see here. Pretty stiff tho, most of any since doing fast and slow laps Lap 2: 3:44 - still nothing of note. Stiffness still causing wobbly tracking but not pain Lap 3: 3:04 - shuffled half that lap; times commensurate. Relatively fast if not quite most-effortless lap Lap 4: 2:37 - jogged entire lap. Noticing my lung capacity is now an upper limit to lap performance, not the knee Lap 5: 2:20 - only 17 secs diff between 4 & 5, despite the 150-ft sprint (and only 5 secs quicker than yesterday). Down to pure exhaustion, methinks -- add'l stiffness in knee didn't seem to hold back progression at first... but lack of it 4 & 5 shows any stored energy were spent in 1 - 3. And as yesterday, they were done w/ attn to staying relaxed. After I'd reported someone stacking a 12-pk of Heinie bottles atop one of the retaining pillars on the top of the parking structure, right over the entrance to the ramps (stop cables go thru them to prevent cars driving off and nosediving 4 stories into asphalt) -- a slight gust of wind would've pushed several of them right thru some old lady's windshield. Took them down, stood them next to a parking stop, and had mgmt alerted to that and add'l shens going on up there (like dog feces left for months). Was cordoned off, stairwells and all -- I don't blame them one bit. People can suck steaming moos c**k, and now they've taken away my fave outside lap area to cooldown after the laps. What's more infuriating... is the same urchin who owns the dog(s) who crap on the parking structure, regularly leaves it in the mall upper level too. Turds on the drains, left to the cleaning staff to deal with -- like it's their f***ing right. Non-pet-responsible pieces of s**t need to take longs walks off short cliffs (w/o the pets, of course)
Wed 28 Jan 26: Knee were meh, but not as sore as yesterday. Tbh, can't remember if I took Mg last night... tho did sleep well which usually results from it. Well today wasn't going to be a push day, so not as crucial... Lap 1: 4:17 - boy these sandals really slow me down, even on the warmup. The ASICS are wider than typical cross-trainers but still compress the muscles between my 1st & 2nd + 3rd & 4th toe metatarsals (dorsal and plantar interosseous muscles), which eventually works itself out w/ endorphins but obvi feet are far more used to sandals, not wearing shoes save spl occasions 16y now. Lap 2: 4:09 - have noticed a sharp delineation between gait in shoes (raised heel ~15mm) and sandals. Obvi harder to step off and land on ball of foot, esp with the bad side. But this means the muscles have to contract net 15mm higher on these rest days... which tbh, isn't much of a rest. Both may eventually compromise towards a middle ground, which is why I'm noodling with the amt of push vs. rest days. Lap 3: 4:00 - am now sweating. Didn't used to sweat this early... but could be due to not having enough stored Mg (same thing happened the other day forgetting it as well). Not a drenched sweat like I'm dying, but the break of one. Lap 4: 4:03 - okay so ~4 mins is basically the warmed-up time for walking-in-sandals laps. Not aiming to get faster, just interesting to see how healing of the knee contributes if anything to the lap times. As of now, a comfy 4 mins (barring any rain or workers mopping slippery tiles in front of me or urchins on their f***ing phones w/ earbuds in not making a hole as I call out 'on your left / on your right')... Lap 5: 3:57 - QED --- The mgmt's opened up the top floor of the parking structure again -- apparently after some of the 'guards' there got a dressing down by Aunty Office Lady to stop seeing stuff on their little golf cart rounds and doing / saying 0 about it. The chicken leg left up there by some ne'er-do-good several weeks ago? Still there bleaching in the goddamned sun... so not all that confident the advice hasn't already exited their far-side torn-up ears
