Happy birthday! Hope you had a great weekend.
I must join the club of a sort-of sumo-er who uses her back. Ahh, well. I’m just starting to accept it and doing additional work to strengthen my back.
happy bday!!! looking younger every year. training is looking great. props on running for 2 hours straight, and not wanting to hang yourself. lol. i get bored after 15 seconds…
Ooh you has a birthday? Hope you had fun!
Koffea: Thanks for the info. I think I have some imbalances with respect to my flexibility that contribute to my problem. I’m working on fixing that and doing a shit ton of other corrective stuff and I seem to be getting a handle on managing the sciatica. Hopefully, someday it will be a thing of the past.
Masch: After that night of full sleep it took me hours to feel “normal” again. I was in a fog. NOt sleeping feels better. That must be wrong…but it is true. I’ve been up since three am today. Feel great!
Kimba: I know that Harry Selkow @ elitefts has his athletes pull both ways up to a certain point. I’m going to try that for awhile. You should try conventional. It seems so much simpler to me.
Mim: Birthday was good. The puking was done by my kid, of course. Barf on my b-day. Oh thank you honey! There was no excessive partying by me. But it was fun pretending…
Thanks frenchie!
Snap: A strong back sounds like a plan to me. Thanks for the wishes.
Koub: I love the distance running. I don’t know why. Surely, there is something or many things wrong with me.
Cal: I did have fun. Not that I’m happy about the rapid passage of another year, but I haven’t yet found a way to beat time.
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So, I’m deloading. Again. Shit this log is full of nothingness lately. Resting to help the sciatica, tapering for the half, now tapering for the pullups. I’m eager to start TRAINING for something again.
I don’t know what my focus is going to be or if I’ll carry on in the same do whatever manner that I have. Regardless, I’m excited to begin again.
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Diet: BW 117.7 I’m happy with that. At this rate, I don’t expect to hit 115. If I can keep it here, I’ll be good I think. I don’t see a difference btw 119 and 117.7, of course, but I’ll post pics for the fun of it anyway. THis log needs something.
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Running: 6 miles today. My sciatica is improving. It’s not always great, but I now know how to make it better when it flares. Today, it took me a full 20 minutes to get that full range of motion back in my hamstring… but such is life.
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A back shot for brute. Fuck these are hard to take…
Edited to add: oh great it’s giant.
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I have learned that lighting is key to seeing my abs…
Looking fabulous, Ms Nadia. And yeah, the only way I can see my abs is to stand under my bathroom light. They don’t show otherwise. Of course, you are a lot leaner than I am.
Thanks Cal: I’m actually feeling pretty good being this lean–and unfamiliarly vain.
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Gymnastics yesterday: front walkovers on the low beam for the first time in a long while…holy left hip flexor stretch…I’m not sure that was good for me. I’m still not sure what I’m doing there. Gymnastics is a tough sport to dabble in on a just once a week basis. Do I feel about it like I do the running? Where I enjoy the process more than I care about any result? I’m not sure. Gymnastics hurts.
5 mile run this am. I run like an old car–slow to warm. Still, I always feel better for the effort. A morning run is one of my favorite ways to start a day.
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I won that case yesterday that tortured me so. I figured I would but people were surprised. D made some unhelpful admissions. Fortunately, i was able to clarify that he didn’t say he did the criminal act; he said the 5 year old was a dirty, curious little whore… yeah me.
Hey, a win is a WIN. Few and far between, so I celebrate on your behalf.
I read your log to hear your distinctive and entertaining voice, primarily. You make even deloading interesting.
Sounds to me like you are getting somewhat attached to the vanity-leanness situation. Welcome to my world. 
BTW, very impressive quad sweep, along with the rest of the delicious.
You should train for a powerlifting meet. You have the raw talent to be very, very good.
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Thanks!! BOOTY! And a LOVELY one at that !
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might I also thank you for being a good lawyer–> You are few and far between!! Congratulations on the successful case!
gratz on the case. though, that’s a fucked up thing to say about a 5 year old…
Nadia, simply incredible physique. Seriously everything I strive for. Love the abs, and those delts and quads are thing of beauty. Congrats! And more inspiration for me, thank you
Also congrats on the win! You got a tough job, but someone has to do it.
And man, I used to love the morning runs too. 6 miles over the bridge and back…soon.
congrats on the case Nadia, sounds like it was a tough one.
lovely hip creases
Thanks Kimba. It was a good win–as far as the development of the harmless error standard–so I’m happy with that.
Snap: I’m going to try a powerlifting meet next year. I’m just not sure how I’m going to train for it.
Thanks brute.
Kube: The dirty whore comment is just me being jaded. D didn’t say that. He said the kid liked to get into bed with him and grab at him. I argued that his statements described “the innocent touches of a curious child” not an act of SA. But, in doing that (and in making the other arguments I had to make) I felt a lot like I was blaming the victim. Not an argument I like making. But, my job is easy. See, I’m not responsible for figuring out what is true and what is not. I only advocate.
Thanks Masch. Can’t wait to hear about your first bridge run!
Thanks frenchie.
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So, I cheated on my pullup guy and fucked up my deload by not following his advice. Fear of halloween candy and choking on Tuesday left me going for the 25 pullups yesterday. A dress rehearsal? It’s so me. And this is why when I used to be a real athlete, I always overtrained and underperformed.
I didn’t get the 25. I doubt he’ll let me pull again on Tuesday. I’ll post the video later.
24 pullups.
Pullup guy doesn’t care if I try to go again on Tuesday or not. Of course, that’s fair. And I feel terrible about that. This is worse than if I had just choked on Tuesday.
Amazing deadlift especially at your size!
and omg nice pullups too! lol
Hitting 24 out of 25 is “choking?”
You’re worse than me. And I’m pretty bad.
Thanks dani!
Snap, I don’t think I choked. I think I panicked. I wasn’t supposed to do my pullups until Tuesday. I was supposed to be following a specific deload plan for the pullups-- 3 pullups a day–spaced out. I was supposed to give myself more of a meet like experience–perform on a set day.
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Training: I’m up early,so I’m going to run some distance this morning. I need to figure out what I’m going to do next.
With respect to the pullups, I haven’t cheated on my diet. So, that tells me something. I really did commit to that Nov 2, day. I’m just the kind of person who want to race the distance in her warmup. That tendency probably doesn’t help me perform any better, but it does make me feel better. or more confident. and stupid.
And I guess I didn’t say this, but I’m not unhappy with the 24. It’s not the goal though. And I would like to reach that. Still.