Floris Gierman documents a week of marathon training after recovering from a punctured eardrum, cold, and leg injury. He logs runs around Costa Mesa, cross-training with his daughter, and a car accident mid-week, while juggling a house move and remodel. He shows how short runs lower cortisol and raise serotonin, and asks viewers what they think of the running diary format.
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Even a short run, 20 to 30 minutes, will already kickstart your metabolism and you already feel a lot better. Hey, what's up guys? My name is Floris Gierman from Extramileist, and this week I'm going to test a new video format. It's more going to be a running diary with some of my thoughts before, during, or after my training runs and some of my cross-training as well. I'm just gonna share some of my thoughts, some of the challenges, the good, the bad, some of the opportunities, and some of the things that I'm learning. And hopefully you can learn a few things along the way as well. Saturday night, I haven't really worked out in a full week. Eardrum got punctured, have a hole in it when I went surfing last week. I fell in the water. Kind of out of it this week, out of balance, was just having a hard time hearing, so took it very easy. Focused on sleep, focused on resting, and now after like a full week off, excited to go out for a slow little jog tonight. I don't have another race until April 2018, so I've got plenty of time. Just gonna slowly start building up the miles again. There's the full moon. Not sure if you can see it. It was a nice mellow 3-mile 5K run. It's funny how much better you can feel after just going out for a mellow run. I didn't work out all week. Both of the kids were sick, had a fever. I got my own cold going on this week as well, so that in combination with my leg and my ear Just really took it easy and started feeling slow in the head and a little bit down. And even this, just a 3-mile run, 5K, your stress hormones, your cortisol levels go down, your serotonin, your happiness hormones increase. And yeah, this is why I enjoy running, coming back and feeling all happy again. Can you tell the camera where are we right now? We're at the new house. Yay! We just got the key to the new house. Zoey's walking upstairs. Yeah, look, we got the key to the new house. Yay! We're gonna live here. Yeah. Nice and warm out. It's, uh, good weather to go for a jog without a shirt on, get some extra vitamin D going. I always start out with a few minutes of just walking just to kind of get the heart rate up slowly. Normally the heart rate in rest is about mid-40s, so once I start walking and start walking a bit faster, it will go up to probably 70-80 beats, and then from there on I start jogging slowly. The leg is actually starting to feel better. It's been 2 weeks since my slam and the scars are coming off. Not sure if you can see it. So yeah, leg is, uh, pretty much better now. The only thing that still needs to get sorted out is my ear. The ear should get back in the next few weeks over here. Let's do this, here we go! So lucky right now that it's October. You can still go outside running with just a shirt on. Try to always run against traffic because even over here there is no bike path or curb, so at least you see the cars coming. It's always hit or miss over here with the high water. If it's high tide from the ocean coming into the back bay, the path definitely gets really narrow. Yeah, I'm stuck. All right, we'll, uh, we'll go back, backtrack a little bit over here. I always like this trail. But, um, yeah, maybe not today. Such a fun path. No one out here. Super mellow. It's a lot of birds flying, so I kind of like to come here. Nice 4-mile jog done and done. Felt good. It's so nice to go out there by the Back Bay. I live in Orange County in Costa Mesa, gonna be here for another few weeks before I move to Irvine, but it's so nice to go to your local running trail over here and actually see some of the wildlife. Actually had a hawk, a few hawks come by pretty close. I was probably face to face with it within 10 foot, and I just stopped running and I just look for a minute and I just enjoy the vibe. I think it's all about having fun out there, and if you see something cool, just actually fully be present and enjoy it. So yeah, nice 4-miler at 7 miles total for the week. Not much at all, but at least happy to be out there running. Here's a little cross training, a 2-mile skate with my daughter to drop her off to school. Is it fun? Yeah. It's been a long time. Today Daddy's going to work in the new house. Right, want to say any last words? Nah, we are at the new house now. Look what they've done. We arrived in the skate park, right? Yay! We include influencer marketing. This is a photo of when we had the DJ Kaskade at Irvine Spectrum in California. We had about 500 people show up. Look at Scarf get wrecked! No running tonight, but some go-karting, which is good cross-training. It is Tuesday night. I was planning on going for a run tonight, but it's already 10 o'clock. Still gotta catch up on emails, so no run again today. Good morning, about 6:30, and the days are getting shorter. I gotta go up to LA again today for a conference. Busy days. Today I only have about 30 minutes to go for a run. That's alright, even a short run, 20 to 30 minutes, will already kickstart your metabolism. Such a good way to wake up. Nice morning run, 3.6 miles in 30 minutes. 8:17 minute mile pace. Kept it nice and mellow, kept the heart rate at 130, 135. Not in any hurry. No, that was a good beginning of the day. All right, I just got in a little car accident. Got hit from behind going about 20 miles an hour. Really didn't see that coming, so I did get a little jank on the neck. Hopefully everything is good. Typically you don't feel these things until the next day, so I'll probably be a bit sore tomorrow. Gonna keep an eye out for it. We went over to the side of the road, but luckily the damage is pretty minimal. We exchanged insurance, so now I'm on the road again. I'm waiting for my watch to get ready. It's taking a while today. Yeah, we're ready, let's go! It's very nice that the temperatures are getting lower again. Definitely, uh, makes running easier. 2 miles in, nicely warmed up right now, and I can run actually pretty fast at a decent heart rate. 7-minute miles at low 140s in heart rate. Nice to get a little faster miles in on the back side of the Back Bay. No lights over here except for the light on my phone, and there's absolutely no one Every now and then hear a little coyote or another wild animal making some noise, but so nice. 5 miles in 37 minutes 38, 7:31 minute mile. It was a nice 5-miler, 2-mile warm-up, and a few miles a little bit faster. With a little bit faster, I was actually still at a max heart rate of 145. The miles are definitely very low this week, but that's all right. There's a lot of other things happening at this point. Moving into a new place, remodeling. I got in a car accident this week, and I'm very happy that I don't feel anything. So it was very minor, but still, I was somewhat worried that I was going to have some slight whiplash or something going on. But overall, all good and well. A lot on my mind. Didn't even have enough time to meditate this week. Only meditated 2 times, and then I already noticed that I have a bit more chaos going on in the mind. So then going outside for a run definitely feels very good. This is just a test of a new video format. It's purely whatever I run into on the day to give you a bit of a 360 view of my daily life. And my training and my adjustments to training as well. I'm very curious to hear what you think of the new format. Would you like to see more of these videos? Obviously there's going to be more running involved as I, uh, pick up my training miles again soon. Um, or would you like to see other videos? Please let me know in the comments below. All right, you guys have a good one. Later.
