So my max running distances for the past couple months has been something like this:
3 miles
6 miles
12 miles.
After conditioning my body with a good baseline strength/endurance (3 miles with good old SF hills), my body has been able to hit new milestones pretty easily. I've been doubling my distances, running the new distance a couple times to get my body over the shock, and then doubling my distance again.
And the Vibram 5s were the key to helping me reach this far. When I first hit the 6 mile milestone in regular shoes, my legs developed shin splints on every run after that. So when I switched over to wearing Vibrams, my shin splints went away but I started developing foot pains.
Foot pains are normal with new users of Vibrams because your feet isn't used to being able to flex all of its 26 bones and joints when it wore regular shoes, so it is as if my feet are still babies and learning to walk/run all over again. Every run so far, I've had foot pain in my ball and arch area from the foot springing and flexing (which it doesn't do in normal shoes).
My feet are now my limiting factor and the only obstacle to doubling my distance again. It's difficult though when I have to wear normal shoes most of the week and then only slip on the Vibrams for running. Every first mile, my feet have to relearn the technique all over again but sometimes it decides to sprain itself instead. There have been rare sightings in SF FiDi of businessmen wearing a suit and Vibrams on their way to work, but I think it will take time before I can do that at work.
Friday, July 30, 2010
New Chuckie, Shooting log #1
I am tired of politics. It's fun mocking the liberals who whine about the President they hate, but when it's conservatives doing the whining about the President, I want to facepalm myself. It's embarrassing... really.
I've learned one thing about myself that I improve on something a lot more when I am blogging about it. So now I will blog more about the sports I have been training in. I like to post progress logs, analyze deficiencies and talk strategies for getting better. So far, I've been training for swimming, running, biking and shooting. (Would make an awesome QUADTHLON!)
Today's range reports at 7 yards:
1) 88.75 (12.5% bulls eyes)
2) 94.76 (52.4% bulls eyes)
3) 96.8 (76% bulls eyes)
4) 94.66 (53.3% bulls eyes)
5) 79.54 (13.6% bulls eyes)
One notable achievement is that I got rid of my tendency to hit upper right. Last time I shot, all of my shots were grouping in the upper left area of the bulls eye, which meant that I was pushing the gun and anticipating recoil. This time, I followed some advice I found on the internet and mixed snap caps (fake bullets) with real bullets in my magazine before I shot. When you don't know if it's a real or fake bullet in the chamber, the motion of the gun on a fake bullet when you pull the trigger tells you a lot about how you are holding the gun.
So that technique helped me to keep the gun pretty steady. The first set you can still see me anticipating recoil, but my second through fourth sets I got rid of that bad habit.
On my last set, I rapidly fired 24 bullets to simulate how I would react to a home invasion situation. A lot of my shots went low, which means my fingers are tightening on the pistol and I am drooping my head. Only 22 bullets hit the paper, so that means 2 shots were off. It's a small piece of paper so I am not too worried about it. Lots of room for improvement, but not to the point where I maddeningly suck and would be a huge danger to bystanders. I am more worried about the people next to me today who were hitting the edges of a large paper!
I am most proud of this one, I connected 7 shots and 6 shots. If I got one more in between the two groups, that would be a 14 shot group. I deserve to have a hit rap song because I bet most rappers can't do this.
I've learned one thing about myself that I improve on something a lot more when I am blogging about it. So now I will blog more about the sports I have been training in. I like to post progress logs, analyze deficiencies and talk strategies for getting better. So far, I've been training for swimming, running, biking and shooting. (Would make an awesome QUADTHLON!)
Today's range reports at 7 yards:
1) 88.75 (12.5% bulls eyes)
2) 94.76 (52.4% bulls eyes)
3) 96.8 (76% bulls eyes)
4) 94.66 (53.3% bulls eyes)
5) 79.54 (13.6% bulls eyes)
One notable achievement is that I got rid of my tendency to hit upper right. Last time I shot, all of my shots were grouping in the upper left area of the bulls eye, which meant that I was pushing the gun and anticipating recoil. This time, I followed some advice I found on the internet and mixed snap caps (fake bullets) with real bullets in my magazine before I shot. When you don't know if it's a real or fake bullet in the chamber, the motion of the gun on a fake bullet when you pull the trigger tells you a lot about how you are holding the gun.
So that technique helped me to keep the gun pretty steady. The first set you can still see me anticipating recoil, but my second through fourth sets I got rid of that bad habit.
On my last set, I rapidly fired 24 bullets to simulate how I would react to a home invasion situation. A lot of my shots went low, which means my fingers are tightening on the pistol and I am drooping my head. Only 22 bullets hit the paper, so that means 2 shots were off. It's a small piece of paper so I am not too worried about it. Lots of room for improvement, but not to the point where I maddeningly suck and would be a huge danger to bystanders. I am more worried about the people next to me today who were hitting the edges of a large paper!
I am most proud of this one, I connected 7 shots and 6 shots. If I got one more in between the two groups, that would be a 14 shot group. I deserve to have a hit rap song because I bet most rappers can't do this.
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