I didn't traumatize anything with Wednesday's record-time treadmill session, but my inner thigh (adductors) sure felt it all day yesterday. Googling reveals that the adductor is the muscle involved in the sort of injury commonly known as a "pulled groin". I'm sure that's not as sexy as it sounds.
I'd been frustrated and feeling stuck on the wrong side of the 40-minute "wall". Intellectually, I knew my session times weren't a relevant measure of progress, because I'd been focusing on pushing through to h...
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session 59: 3.3mi / 38m06s, all 5.5mph except a 1-lap cooldown at 2mi.
dreamed little chris and somebody else and I were at a hotel party and we went outside for something - when we came back the hotel security were all up in our shit until we broke out the real estate and packed some bowls
Feeling irrationally anxious and not much I can do about it, so I popped in the gym for 3 sets on my machine circuit before lunch:
Session 58:
leg curls: 20x 50# easy
leg press: 20x 210# medium
overhead press: 15-20x 30# hard1
arm curls: 15-20x 30# v.hard
ab crunch: 12-15x 90# moderate2
arm extension: 20x 30# easy3
chest press: 16-20x 50# moderate
1. On the 3rd set on overhead press, I ran into that nasty sensation of something twanging or grinding in my right shoulder. I think I've figured o...
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