Training Log Archive: AnnaIn the 31 days ending Aug 14, 2007:
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Tuesday Aug 14, 2007 #
strength 17:10 [0]
I did my knee exercises with weights, and I looked at the relay map from Lithuania and a Finnish map with a wide variety of contour features.
swimming 41:00 [3]
500 choice
500 lifeguard strokes (alternating between different variations of normal free and head-out-of-the-water free, and also sidestroke)
500 kick, last 25 of each 100 hard of whatever stroke I was doing.
500 lifeguard strokes (alternating between different variations of normal free and head-out-of-the-water free, and also sidestroke)
500 kick, last 25 of each 100 hard of whatever stroke I was doing.
aqua-jogging 52:00 [3]
No tightness. I stretched between swimming and aqua-jogging, and after aqua-jogging.
When my legs got tired, I mixed in some of the "hill" version of aqua-jogging.
When my legs got tired, I mixed in some of the "hill" version of aqua-jogging.
Monday Aug 13, 2007 #
aqua-jogging 1:11:00 [3]
At the Y.
strength 6:30 [0]
just core exercises
Sunday Aug 12, 2007 #
strength 17:10 [0]
Did some courses in Orienteering Today.
Knee exercises w/o weights.
Knee exercises w/o weights.
aqua-jogging 1:01:00 [3]
Got to stay in the pool after everyone else left. It was peaceful.
swimming 31:00 [3]
500 warmup
kick until it was time to leave.
kick until it was time to leave.
Saturday Aug 11, 2007 #
swimming 47:00 [3]
800 SKiPS
9x100 drill
4x100 down hard, back easy
100 easy
Total: 2200 yards
9x100 drill
4x100 down hard, back easy
100 easy
Total: 2200 yards
aqua-jogging 45:00 [3]
Watched my high school team's Alumni Run from the pool. It was a 2-mile run, which I didn't know at the time, and they passed by twice. Brian led throughout, with Andy finishing about 30 seconds behind him. Brian's been doing 2-a-days and is part of a high-mileage college program, and Andy finds it harder to hold himself back on easy days and says high mileage isn't good for him. Next was Tom, I think, an about-to-be junior that we stole from the soccer and baseball teams last year; he's beaten Andy and Brian's times from their sophomore years and was only a little behind Andy.
Poor Ali had nobody to run against and ran 7-plus minute miles. She didn't look like she was physically straining when I saw her, but I don't know what point of the race that was. If she's smart, she won't read too much into it.
I stretched well after my workout, which wasn't all that high intensity. I need to remember to do that consistently.
Poor Ali had nobody to run against and ran 7-plus minute miles. She didn't look like she was physically straining when I saw her, but I don't know what point of the race that was. If she's smart, she won't read too much into it.
I stretched well after my workout, which wasn't all that high intensity. I need to remember to do that consistently.
Thursday Aug 9, 2007 #
aqua-jogging 1:00:00 [3]
swimming 30:00 [3]
Wednesday Aug 8, 2007 #
swimming 45:00 [3]
aqua-jogging 50:00 [3]
Tuesday Aug 7, 2007 #
Note
Today is a bad day for my foot. Yesterday I forgot to take my medicine, and last night my night splint was cutting off my circulation so I took it off after sleeping for 2 hours. So today I had some morning pain, but it was mostly later in the day I was having problems. I had definite arch pain in both feet while walking to class which hasn't happened in a long time, and it was more persistent than normal. It doesn't hurt in my heel, it hurt in the middle of my arch, and once it even hurt to the inside of the ball of my left foot.
So the conclusion I'm coming to is that it was my 2 walks that did it. After the first one I had milder symptoms of the same type, without having missed my medicine. I've missed taking my medicine for one day before, and I've taken off the night splint in the middle of the night, too, so I don't think it's that.
The moral of this story is that I shouldn't get excited about being fixed just because my overly-optimistic doctor tells me I am.
So the conclusion I'm coming to is that it was my 2 walks that did it. After the first one I had milder symptoms of the same type, without having missed my medicine. I've missed taking my medicine for one day before, and I've taken off the night splint in the middle of the night, too, so I don't think it's that.
The moral of this story is that I shouldn't get excited about being fixed just because my overly-optimistic doctor tells me I am.
aqua-jogging 35:00 [3]
swimming 45:00 [3]
strength 17:10 [0]
Read a John Grisham book. The knee exercises were with 5 lbs.
Monday Aug 6, 2007 #
swimming 41:00 [3]
aqua-jogging 30:00 [3]
taking it easy, since the aqua-jogging has been hard on my legs.
Sunday Aug 5, 2007 #
swimming 1:13:46 [3]
So this morning I was rushing from working lap swim at the U City pool, to swimming at the Y, to working normal hours at the U. City pool. The good thing about having 2 guarding jobs is that I get free memberships at the good pool and the pool with the good hours. And even though I didn't really have enough time for my workout, I got Susie to let me in the pool 5 minutes early. It was so fun to dive into the pool and be able to look up and see the perfect reflection of the tile on the bottom of the surface of the water. I wondered for a few minutes why it was so clear, then I realized it's because nobody had clouded the water up with bubbles yet!
500 choice
6x150 kick, drill, swim
100 swim
25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, back down again: alternating 25's easy and hard
300 cooldown
Total: 3100 meters
500 choice
6x150 kick, drill, swim
100 swim
25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, back down again: alternating 25's easy and hard
300 cooldown
Total: 3100 meters
aqua-jogging 20:46 [3]
The back of my knee was kind of tight. I could only stretch it after my 10-minute drive to work.
strength 17:30 [0]
California map, Possum Trot map.
Saturday Aug 4, 2007 #
swimming 50:00 [3]
500 choice
6x100 drill down, swim back
2x300 build by 100
300 cooldown
Total: 2000 yards
6x100 drill down, swim back
2x300 build by 100
300 cooldown
Total: 2000 yards
aqua-jogging 12:46 [3]
felt an odd twinge in my knee, thought it was best to back off. This has been a down week anyway.
walking 17:00 [0]
Testing foot again. My foot didn't feel perfect when I started, but it didn't hurt while I was walking.
strength 17:30 [0] ***
2 maps again, first was a D16 course from Russia, with lots of green. The contour features were relatively defined, but they were hard to read in the green.The legs all required switching between the features being followed, so I couldn't get too comfortable only looking at vegetation or only looking at contours.
The second map was from the 1987 Troll Cup, and it was a green course. The contours were much trickier, because a lot more things were only one contour high than on the other map, and they looked more random. There were some fun (minor) route choices, with trails I had to choose how long to follow, or stony ground to avoid.
The second map was from the 1987 Troll Cup, and it was a green course. The contours were much trickier, because a lot more things were only one contour high than on the other map, and they looked more random. There were some fun (minor) route choices, with trails I had to choose how long to follow, or stony ground to avoid.
Friday Aug 3, 2007 #
swimming 1:01:00 [3]
800 swim, kick, drill, swim
600 kick every 3rd 50 flutter kick hard
100 free
8 100 IM's
Total: 2300 yards
600 kick every 3rd 50 flutter kick hard
100 free
8 100 IM's
Total: 2300 yards
aqua-jogging 31:15 [3]
strength 17:30 [0]
at work
Thursday Aug 2, 2007 #
strength 17:30 [0] ***
For most of this, I looked at 2 maps.
The first was a map with contours, white woods, marshes, and a clearing--that was it--that was very interesting. The contours were good for me to practice on, because I'm not used to making quick decisions about features that small. I went through the course forwards and backwards, looking at possible routes and visualizing the contours. It was hard to tell how much I should trust the marshes, and I just tried to pay attention to contour features I could run by.
The second map was of a World Cup race at Pawtuckaway, and it had different routes marked on them. It was too hard to plan routes for those controls because the markings obscured the features, so instead I focused on making sense of the contours in other parts of the map. What made this difficult were the one-contour knolls scattered around, because they distracted me from the big picture.
The first was a map with contours, white woods, marshes, and a clearing--that was it--that was very interesting. The contours were good for me to practice on, because I'm not used to making quick decisions about features that small. I went through the course forwards and backwards, looking at possible routes and visualizing the contours. It was hard to tell how much I should trust the marshes, and I just tried to pay attention to contour features I could run by.
The second map was of a World Cup race at Pawtuckaway, and it had different routes marked on them. It was too hard to plan routes for those controls because the markings obscured the features, so instead I focused on making sense of the contours in other parts of the map. What made this difficult were the one-contour knolls scattered around, because they distracted me from the big picture.
Wednesday Aug 1, 2007 #
walking 24:00 [0]
Testing out my foot. I'll wait a few days, and if it doesn't hurt, I'll walk for a week. If that doesn't hurt, I'll run 15 minutes one day, etc.
swimming 2:00 [3]
Went to the pool at 6 this morning, then felt sick. My heart rate had been abnormally high during my workout yesterday, and then after I got home this morning I took a 3-hour nap. The one good thing is that there's no stuffy nose!
Tuesday Jul 31, 2007 #
swimming 1:16:00 [3]
Today was the first workout I had to make up myself! My HR was overall higher than normal, which could have something to do with the fact that I have a sore throat.
500 choice
6x150 kick, drill, swim
5x100 free on 2:05. Lots of rest, but my heart rate didn't go down much because I did them kind of fast.
100 easy
600 alternating IM's, then flutter kick
400 drill, IM order
300 cooldown
Total: 3300 meters
500 choice
6x150 kick, drill, swim
5x100 free on 2:05. Lots of rest, but my heart rate didn't go down much because I did them kind of fast.
100 easy
600 alternating IM's, then flutter kick
400 drill, IM order
300 cooldown
Total: 3300 meters
aqua-jogging 17:00 [3]
strength 15:00 [0] ***
Finally able to start strength stuff again! I did all of my knee exercises, then all my core exercises except anything using my back. (That's actually more than it sounds.)
I found a map of the 1990 US Champs at Harriman, and I went through Red X and Blue. I visualized it as the terrain from the junior training camp a couple of years ago, which meant avoid rocky hillsides at all cost. With so much rock on the map, I focused on contours and map simplification. I tried to find distinct attack points or at least check-off features on each route. I also payed attention to the distance between contour lines as features to navigate by, which takes conscious effort for me to do.
I found a map of the 1990 US Champs at Harriman, and I went through Red X and Blue. I visualized it as the terrain from the junior training camp a couple of years ago, which meant avoid rocky hillsides at all cost. With so much rock on the map, I focused on contours and map simplification. I tried to find distinct attack points or at least check-off features on each route. I also payed attention to the distance between contour lines as features to navigate by, which takes conscious effort for me to do.
Monday Jul 30, 2007 #
aqua-jogging 1:05:00 [3]
Felt an acute pain in my knee, so I stopped. Bothered me when I stepped wrong throughout the day, but doesn't hurt anymore at all (one day later).
Sunday Jul 29, 2007 #
aqua-jogging 1:01:00 [3]
swimming 35:00 [3]
Saturday Jul 28, 2007 #
learning to windsurf 1:00:00 [3]
Lots of swimming involved here, because I kept getting blown farther and farther downwind. Also, lots of strength work--mostly my lower back--pulling the mast up again each time I fell; I fell a lot. It was hard because the water would get on top of the sail. Then at the end, when I got hit in the face with the mast, I traded with my aunt so I got the kayak. We had a water fight/race with my other aunt and my uncle and cousins.
Friday Jul 27, 2007 #
swimming 52:00 [3]
400 choice
200 IM drill
200 kick reverse IM order
2x200 free, build by 50
100 IM, 100 free, 100 IM, 100 free, 200 IM, 200 free
300 free (hard, easy, hard)
100 free all-out.
200 cooldown
Total: 2600 yards
200 IM drill
200 kick reverse IM order
2x200 free, build by 50
100 IM, 100 free, 100 IM, 100 free, 200 IM, 200 free
300 free (hard, easy, hard)
100 free all-out.
200 cooldown
Total: 2600 yards
aqua-jogging 41:00 [3]
Note
So today my foot hurt first thing out of bed this morning, which is not a good sign for running. I'm definitely waiting till next week. I saw Crowe this morning after my staff meeting at the pool, and he suggested walking a bit for the first week to see if that works.
I think one of the reasons my doctor hasn't been working well for me is because he's always in such a good mood about my foot that he makes me forget the symptoms I've been having! For example, yesterday he asked me how it's been feeling, and when I told him I can walk around normally and don't have any random pain, he started making up my running plan before I had a chance to remember I've been having morning pain. And then the upsetting part is he tells me to use "common sense" about when to run, but my common sense tells me keep swimming till my foot doesn't hurt when I press on it, which is not what he thinks I should do.
So basically, he's just so friendly and in a good mood that he gets the appointment over with in 5 minutes, before I can get a chance to ask him questions that aren't on the tip of my tongue.
I think one of the reasons my doctor hasn't been working well for me is because he's always in such a good mood about my foot that he makes me forget the symptoms I've been having! For example, yesterday he asked me how it's been feeling, and when I told him I can walk around normally and don't have any random pain, he started making up my running plan before I had a chance to remember I've been having morning pain. And then the upsetting part is he tells me to use "common sense" about when to run, but my common sense tells me keep swimming till my foot doesn't hurt when I press on it, which is not what he thinks I should do.
So basically, he's just so friendly and in a good mood that he gets the appointment over with in 5 minutes, before I can get a chance to ask him questions that aren't on the tip of my tongue.
Thursday Jul 26, 2007 #
Note
Doctor said I can start running. I'm a little more hesitant this time. The plan is to run 15 minutes one day by myself, then wait three days to see if I get any discomfort. I mostly just want to get on campus before I do much, so the pressure's not all on me to decide what to do.
aqua-jogging 1:01:00 [3]
swimming 31:00 [3]
Wednesday Jul 25, 2007 #
swimming 48:00 [3]
aqua-jogging 49:00 [3]
strength 17:10 [0]
Tuesday Jul 24, 2007 #
aqua-jogging 59:42 [3]
Did a 20 minute warmup, then 6 2-minute pickups w/ a minute between, "hill" running. Cooled down easy.
swimming 31:00 [3]
strength 17:10 [0]
Monday Jul 23, 2007 #
swimming 42:00 [3]
600 warmup
300 kick
5 100 IM's
2 200's free
300 cooldown
Total: 2100 yards
300 kick
5 100 IM's
2 200's free
300 cooldown
Total: 2100 yards
aqua-jogging 50:00 [3]
strength 17:10 [0]
Did some route choice on a training map from Lithuania during the last 10 minutes. It was a challenge to read all the itty bitty contour features with all that bold green vegetation. Also, having just come from Psychology class, I couldn't help but think of my confusion of the rides with north lines (and subsequent ignoring of them) as a lack of discrimination training. I worked very hard to provide a negative punisher for myself (imagining the lost time). Also, it reminded me of habituation, even though all the examples in our book are over a very short period of time. I wonder if there's long-term habituation; I swear by my first cortisone shot hurt 10 times worse than my third.
Sunday Jul 22, 2007 #
Control-hanging 20:00 [0] **
set out a few markers for the sprints. Lots of walking, so I was being careful, but my feet didn't seem to mind.
Friday Jul 20, 2007 #
swimming 1:04:00 [3]
800 skps
3x200 IM drill
12x50 free, building by 50's, 3 times
2x500, middle 200 hard
200 cooldown
Total: 3200 yards
3x200 IM drill
12x50 free, building by 50's, 3 times
2x500, middle 200 hard
200 cooldown
Total: 3200 yards
aqua-jogging 35:00 [3]
Thursday Jul 19, 2007 #
aqua-jogging 1:00:00 [3]
swimming 32:00 [3]
strength 6:30 [3]
body circuit
Wednesday Jul 18, 2007 #
swimming 1:00:00 [3]
aqua-jogging 30:00 [3]
strength 17:10 [3]
Tuesday Jul 17, 2007 #
strength 17:10 [0]
knee exercises and body circuits
swimming 31:00 [3]
aqua-jogging 1:01:00 [3]