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Dust, chemicals,cows, horses, bulls
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antracing
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15 August 2012
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The start of the week was not too promising for running because of a totally random situation at work. I milk cows and Monday and Tuesday the boss decided to get all the old feed out of his feed silo. It all sits inside the conical shape and the layers near the outside refuse to fall , so effectively their is about a ton of feed sitting on the outside of the silo and cows get fed the central core over and over again with refills every few weeks. It is a tribute to his lungs that he can withstand getting into the silo and belting the crap out of the stuff sitting up against the walls a couple of times per milkiing and coming out looking like a snowman. But for at cups on, the feed is powdery crap and I spent a couple of hours each time in a cloud of fine grain dust, hell for an asthmatic with permanent lung damage. I was surprised I wasn't allergic, but still got the lungs mechanically full of bad dust and had to cough it out and take extra medication eg ventolin. Will get some dust masks and keep in car in future.
The same sort of situation occurs at the other place when that boss decides to worm the cows with shots of pour on drench fired by a drench gun, from the outside of the herringbone over the cows backs toward the pit (where I am milking and also getting wormed). Neither situation would look good in a report to Workcare.
I am going to really try to do a good time this Thursday 5 km Harriers run.
So Monday I did 8 km slowly, 8.34 km , pace= 8.49, av speed 7.4; and on Tuesday 5 km in 45:38, pace= 9.05; speed = 6.6.
Today no milking in am but busy so did a short 2 km run in 16 mins, with 1 stride 210m in 48 secs; pace=3.47; speed=15.8. So the lungs are clearing.
Last week I did 15.33 km, YTD = 1000.67 km.
The book Born to Run discusses the nuchal ligament which is a feature of running animals like humans, horses and dogs. The nuchal ligament stabilises the head and neck while running. Non running animals don't have them eg cows. So it seems to me that that is why cows canter "disunited" , they need to cross gait to improve stability while moving faster than a trot. Then I thought about bulls and their reputation for being very fast when chasing humans etc. I wonder if their heavy neck muscle development acts as a nuchal ligament "mimic" and they are more stable while running thus able to speed more. I wonder if they even fall into the true/horse canter when charging. Must look if I ever come across footage of a charging bull.
The same sort of situation occurs at the other place when that boss decides to worm the cows with shots of pour on drench fired by a drench gun, from the outside of the herringbone over the cows backs toward the pit (where I am milking and also getting wormed). Neither situation would look good in a report to Workcare.
I am going to really try to do a good time this Thursday 5 km Harriers run.
So Monday I did 8 km slowly, 8.34 km , pace= 8.49, av speed 7.4; and on Tuesday 5 km in 45:38, pace= 9.05; speed = 6.6.
Today no milking in am but busy so did a short 2 km run in 16 mins, with 1 stride 210m in 48 secs; pace=3.47; speed=15.8. So the lungs are clearing.
Last week I did 15.33 km, YTD = 1000.67 km.
The book Born to Run discusses the nuchal ligament which is a feature of running animals like humans, horses and dogs. The nuchal ligament stabilises the head and neck while running. Non running animals don't have them eg cows. So it seems to me that that is why cows canter "disunited" , they need to cross gait to improve stability while moving faster than a trot. Then I thought about bulls and their reputation for being very fast when chasing humans etc. I wonder if their heavy neck muscle development acts as a nuchal ligament "mimic" and they are more stable while running thus able to speed more. I wonder if they even fall into the true/horse canter when charging. Must look if I ever come across footage of a charging bull.
