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I was having a great day this past Saturday until it turned to shit.
My plan was to attend time trials (parkour racing, basically) at 2pm, then meet friends at the track for evening sprints.
It would be the most dynamic movement I've done in one day in a long time. Years, in fact.
But I've been putting in work at the track all summer, plus I'd healed up from several injuries, big and small.
I wanted to test myself.
First was time trials, where I kept pace with Reed and Michael:
For context, Reed is 17 and his dad was a Division I track athlete.
Michael is 26 and has podiumed at international parkour racing competitions.
I'm 44 and had Achilles tendon ruptures less than five years ago.
I was pleased with this performance, and still had energy left over for sprints.
So far, so good.
Later at the track, I got warmed up fast and started pushing out sprints ahead of everyone else.
I wasn't trying to be competitive (we don't go to the track for that), I just felt good.
Then, unexpectedly, I ripped off maybe the best 100m dash of my life.
At 44 years old.
I wasn't expecting to go the whole distance, but at the halfway point I hit flow state and just kept going.
It felt amazing. I wish I had timed it.
I was, oh so briefly, genuinely happy...and that's always a problem.
I have a bad habit of pushing things too far, especially when I feel that good.
I always need ONE MORE.
So I went for one more...and pulled my hamstring.
Despite all the progress I've made this summer - evidenced by the scoreboard above - this is around the fourth time I've gotten hurt training sprints in the last three months.
It's frustrating because the rest of my practice is so much smarter.
I can do the right amount of weightlifting, mobility, rehab, plyometrics, etc.
Always enough to get stronger, not enough to hurt me.
That's the whole point of training.
But when it comes to my favorite movements - the ones I do all this training for - I get real dumb. Over and over.
And I've largely made peace with that.
After all, progress is never a straight line:
Besides, if it weren't for the things I "get dumb for" I wouldn't bother with the smart things in the first place.
The net result still puts me so far ahead of my peers that I can't imagine doing it any other way.
Don't stop being dumb, I say. Just be smarter about it ;)
Time to go train my hamstrings.
-Coach Seanobi, BS, CSCS, CEP, CPT
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