No running past two days as part of study protocol in prep for testing this morning. Surprise surprise, sprinter boy has some of the strongest quads he's tested so far (mostly skinny white distance guys), but I came up a couple points shy of his lower cutoff for VO2max - bummer. He showed me an age-grade chart with my 52.1 being in the top category for 45-49 years old ( >48, Excellent), but he is trying to keep to his protocol of 54-55 minimum at this point. It was really pretty cool, except for the whole breathing through a snorkel and not being able to swallow deal - 5 min warmup walk/jog on the massive treadmill that looked like a tank, then 2 minutes each at 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5 and 9.5 mph with no incline - no problem at all through any of that. He left it at 9.5 and then bumped incline to 2% for 2 minutes - no biggie. Then kicked it up to 4% and I started struggling after 4 minutes, then he pushed it to 5% and I had to bail after another 30 seconds or so. My VO2max had peaked at about 20 minutes and then plateaued through the last 90 seconds or so. I shall frame the printout that he gave me. I'm most pleased with my killer 21 inch vertical leap! Will run a few easy miles later - the resistance test has my right quad a bit tweaky. Walked/ran a little bit with the dog late this evening. Legs a bit sore from the effort this morning. Onward and upward.
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