Think about your motivation!

Answer from internet:

• You chance of meeting interesting people doubles!
• You have a new way to understand this world. in turn you have a new way to understand yourself.

krashen second language acquisition. (http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_908bfc350101fhm3.html)

language acquisition is different from language learning. Only with language acquisition can develop the inner language mechanism. (environment matters)

language learning is the way to ‘monitor’ language acquisition. to formalize the result of language acquisition. (focus on form)

Need to read and listen to language material, and the material need to exceed the learner’s capability a litter bit. Comprehensive input with i+1 level. level i => current level, level i+1 => the level exceeds the learner’s capability a little bit. The characteristic of the input: comprehensibility, interesting and relevant, not grammatically sequenced,  sufficient input. incomprehensible input is just noise.

Do not expect to output immediately, there is a silent period to have sufficient input.

The grammar involved in a certain sentence has less impact on the meaning of this sentence than the context and the word choice. Consequently, reduce the emphasis on grammar correction.

update: 10/25/2020

语言学习初期：grammar，basic vocabular

词汇期：不贪心，快速提高单词量，贵多不贵精，不要奢求记住或者会用单词，争取到见到某个单词曾经背过就好，贵多不贵精，再后期寻找单词规律再加上big foundation再通过例句辅助记忆，记忆起来更顺一些。此阶段加入泛读泛听，有助于单词接触和记忆。某个单词需要达到的程度就是知道见过就好。

这次学日语，同时总结语言学习的规律。

#每天进步一点点

may need a ‘long/tough run’ day for every skill I am practicing.

to push you to a new level.

• stage 1: 20201114
• time: till 20201114
• material: minasann nihongo, beginner lesson 1-25, deeply understand the grammar
• N5 vocabulary second round.
• N4 vocabulary first round (almost finished)
• start to use http://watanoc.com
• took 15 italki lessons.

plan for stage 3:

• third round N5 and second round N4
• slowly on minasann nihongo, 26-50, deeply understand the grammar
• http://watanoc.com N5 level reading
• start to write diary, use what you learn from N5 reading and minasann nihongo.
• read other’s grammar summary, try to use it in diary
• keep using italki.

• stage 1: 20200708
• time: 6.9~6.24
• material: minasann nihongo, beginner lesson 1-50
• method:
  • go through lessons vocabulary, examples, lessons, with app
  • go through grammar, focused on verb conjugation
  • go through N5 vocabulary

plan for stage 2:

• verb/adjective/particle of N5 vocabulary
• japanese to chinese translation minasann nihongo (examples, lessons), beginner lesson 1-50
• try to memorize words in examples and lessons
• try to read examples and lessons
• pay more attention on verb conjugation
• pay attention to particles
• still no repeating
• takes about 25 days

When train for full marathon:

• what is the optimal weekly training load?
• time-wise, what is the optimal training time for 1 run? 30 mins? 40? 45?
• For one day train (not tough/long day train), is 2 x 4mi run better than 1 x 8mi run? for slow speed

Eat the food you like!

maintaining: 100% (14~16 calories/lb body weight)

• protein: 30% of total calories, about 1g/lb body weight
• carb: 45%, 1.6g
• fat: 25%, 0.4g

bulking: 110% (16~18)

• protein: 25%, 1g
• carb: 55%, 2.2g
• fat: 20%, 0.35g

cutting: 75% (10~12)

• protein: 40% 1.1g
• carb: 40%, 1.1g
• fat: 20%, 0.25g

update: 20200708

Marathon training period: 5.17~6.27 (6.27 race day, Jackson River, flat course, last 2 weeks for tapering)

Before 5.17, average 25 mile per weeks for about 10 weeks

Weight: around 130lbs.

series training: 4weeks

• week 1: 32.6 mi, no long run
• week 2: 51.2 mi, 9 mi steady-speed for Saturday / 11 mi long for Sunday,
• week 3: 56.4 mi, 9 mi / 14 mi
• week 4: 56.5 mi, 9 mi / 17 mi
• week 5: 38 mi, 8 mi slow for both Saturday and Sunday
• week 6: 40 mi, race included.

Training target: 6:40 for mp (marathon pace), 2:50 finish time. slow speed (7:30~8:00)

Training strategy:

• Monday: rest
• Tuesday: am (jump + hurdle training + 4mi slow), pm (4mi slow)
• Wednesday: steady speed/hill/speed for 1 hr (wu and cd included)
• Thursday: am (squat + leg strength training + 4mi slow), pm (4mi slow)
• Friday: pm (4mi slow)
• Saturday: steady speed for 1hr (wu and cd included), purpose to exhaust leg for Sunday’s long run
• Sunday: long run

• Before each run: dynamic stretch (3~5mins)
• After each run: static stretch (5mins)
• Every night: foam rolling for 20mins

Race day:

Food: 1 banana, 2 bread slice with peanut butter, oatmeal with milk, 3 stickers bar (80 cal each), 2 cup of coffee, 6 gu gel during the run. (in total 1400 cal, maybe a little more?)

Temperature: 68-79F

mile split:

1. 6:26
2. 6:19
3. 6:24
4. 6:23
5. 6:21
6. 6:23
7. 6:22
8. 6:19
9. 6:27
10. 6:20
11. 6:25
12. 6:18
13. 6:24
14. 6:26
15. 6:29
16. 6:29
17. 6:23
18. 6:30
19. 6:32
20. 7:04
21. 6:30
22. 6:54
23. 7:08
24. 7:09
25. 7:15
26. 7:40
27. 8:00

Summary:

• The overall training plan is hard enough, but not long enough. 8 week should be minimum, 10 week could be optimal. (not sure, check next time).
• Training time: including stretch, around 2 hrs/day.
• Stretch is important, but can I do it more efficient?
• 2 week tapering seems work well for me.
• Saturday exhausting/Sunday long seems work, but the long run is still too short. May extend the longest run to 20~22miles (ideally for twice to three times).
• Should have a better mile split plan, the split plan should be negative split.
• No need to follow others, keep your pace. Stick to your plan.
• Not sure about for the pace for slow run. According to the pace, add 1:30~2:00, but according to the feeling, add around 1:00
• Try nike vaporfly next per

Next race (possible):

• Charlottesville, 10.24
• Richmond, 11.14
• Philadelphia, 11.22

update 20200708:

still unfinished recovery: probably need full 2 weeks to recover

did one 0.2mi and one 0.4 mi today (after 11 days), a little slower than prime. Could not speed up at last 100m of the 0.4mi. May not be able to finish a tough Wednesday train at this moment.

Questions to ask my self:

• Is my turkish learning so far efficient?
• How can I improve?
• Should I do any change?
• What is the next plan?

To be honest, what I have done is not very efficient for 2 reasons: 1. no language environment, 2. no learning guides. So what I can do so far is by trial and error, which could be very slow.

For now, I plan to stick with learnturkish101.com. Finish the tutorial till advanced level, then start to memorize words again. Then add intensive reading/listening activities.

Possible way to improve:

• memorize words: not now. Already have enough vocabulary for now. This is the bottleneck
• Intensive reading/listening: maybe helpful
• Translation Turkish->English: have done so.
• Translation English->Turkish: could be demanding
• a little diary? Problem: no correction, maybe later.

Plan starting this week:

• 5 mins word
• 5 mins culture learning
• 10 mins lessons
• 10 mins translation

For the next 2 weeks, translation T->E, after that 4 weeks E->T.

Estimate again after one and half months.