Tools of the trade (1)
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Post training today. Spring in the air. Spring on the ground. Barefoot 15K in the dunes and on the beach. Only one thorn. Sometimes none. Most severe 'injuries' happen at home. Small pieces of glass are worst. Thorns or glass, a sharp scalpel, such as the knife bought at the local art-material shop, are best to remove them. Thin and sharp. Small thorns need to be removed after the training. They can and will cause trouble. However small, they cause pain that seems out of tune to their size (sometimes very small, causing sharp pain during walking). The foot must be full of nerves. Which is a miracle. It allows to run over all these different surfaces (stones, asphalt, shells). Giving protection. While remaining sensitive. Tough and sensitive at the same time.
See also:
https://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/238-flow-on-demand
https://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/240-muscles
https://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/15-viewer-discretion-advised-frostbite-7th-update-02-05
https://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/39-getting-2-thorns-out-after-30k-training
Training
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Consumed by the effort.
"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."
Shunryu Suzuki
Portable parkour
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Haarlem, today. It is fear that leads to injury. It is courage that leads to recovery.
The benefit of trail running in the open is the rhythm, the experience, the 'consumption' of the landscape. The benefit of the treadmill lies in injury control and recovery. Running on a machine is a reversed system of running. Creating a landscape digitally by consciously adjusting the speed and the inclination of the running surface by remote control. Bringing in essential variation. It is an excellent tool to support controlled recovery from an injury. Driving it out of the system. Designing the responsibility to heal.
The landing gear
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Today, after dusk (T8, 800ASA, 15 seconds exposure). Air + fat + carbohydrates + protein = the rocket fuel of endurance training.
Keep moving. Though the first minutes of training generally SUCK, we (the living) train because of:
1) A GOOD REASON. The benefit is bigger than the suffering, it is self medication;
2) THERE IS NO GLORY, NO EASY WAY. There is nowhere to hide;
3) IT IS PART OF BIGGER/LARGER LIFESTYLE. It is part of A WAY. A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE. It is not just the training, it is an attitude. Food, rest, relaxation are all part of the mix;
4) TROUGH TRAINING WE FORGET; transforming, redirecting, reframing, reprogramming the brain. FLOW ON DEMAND. Unity.
Through that we built endurance.
See also: "The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the [...] mind is to get an old one out."
Fight or flight
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Start easy. Finish strong. We can learn a lot from the sport-psychologists and mental toughness coaches. Control the breath, set short-term (achieveable) goals, maintain a positive attitude and create the appropriate imagery of achieving what you want to achieve.
See also: "At a physical level, physical training will grow your brain. And that has been proven, science is behind that, backs it up. Physical training, when you get into more complicated things, like gymnastics or learning the olympic lifts or learning new and different things […] training [with ] constantly varied functional movements, done in a unique way, every single day, with the big four skills of mental toughness placed into that; develop things like Courage, and Honour, and Discipline; that will develop mental toughness" https://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/210-why-train
