Training Log Archive: catherineols

Shins seem to hurt no matter what I do. I ran more in Texas than I used to at A-meets (navigation used to slow me down more)... then I went around in non-supportive shoes last week to save my blister... plus pilates last week seemed to inflame them even more.... and then I went and ran on Saturday. Um, bad idea.

This is a pretty serious "flare-up" incident. Even my nightly calf stretches are prohibitively painful on my shins, which has never happened to me before. Seems like I'll just have to lay low a while.

THANK YOU EVERYONE who have made these past four WIOL years so awesome.

Thank you Holly for introducing me to the sport after that fateful conversation at soccer practice one afternoon.

Thank you Tori for being such an amazing teammate and companion as we both progressed from total rookiehood to where we are today.

Thank you Kelsey, Marissa, and Anna for putting up some fierce competition and spurring me on to perform my very best, but also for being awesome people and great friends.

Thank you Drew, William, and Max for being such amazing travel companions to Texas this year (and, yes, great Canasta opponents/partners as well =P) in addition to all else you do for this team.

Thank you Claudia for not only being a great competitor and awesome Canasta partner, but also for brightening up the lives of all of us this year. You will be missed by all.

Thank you Arianna and Callie for sticking with the sport so long, even though the rains were hard and the trails were muddy. Orienteering needs more folks like you.

Thank you to the rest of the Lakeside orienteers, especially this year's crop of AMAZING new recruits. Annie, Laura, Greg, Logan, Spencer, Steven, Wesley - you are all amazing! Keep the legacy alive! <3 <3 <3

Thank you to everyone else I met as a result of my time in WIOL and Interscholastics - Alison (<3 love ya!) , Matej, Tracy, Lance, Michael, Ryan, Katherine, Hilary, Ethan, Huw, Amos, I'm sure I've forgotten someone - for making orienteering feel like not just a sport, but more like a family for me.

Thank you to my patient, patient father, for driving me to meets, and standing in the rain waiting for me, and bringing me dry clothes and a sandwich when I returned, and paying airfare for me to gallivant about the country on my various A-meet escapades, and generally making it possible for me to be a part of this sport.

Thank you to Mike Schuh for showing me the ropes way back on that first rainy afternoon at Fort Casey, for telling awesome stories, for poking fun at me for not reading my map, for giving me an excuse to exercise my Swedish, and just generally being a great mentor to me.

Thank you to ALL the Cascade adults and mentors who have encouraged me in various ways to be my very best. Jim, Eric, Sally, Jennifer, Sue, Rick, Eileen, Patrick, and Jana to name a few.

There is still the Ultimate O' series, and the Street Scrambles, and NWFF coming up. But my time in WIOL is over, and so another chapter has begun.

Thanks for everything you've done for me. I love you all. <3 <3 <3

(P.S. This list keeps growing as I come up with new people I should thank who have some connection to WIOL... please forgive me my prolixity...)

C • Woo! I got a shoutout! 19

Event: Western States + Intercollegiate Championships
 

My blister survived without causing undue pain! Hurrah for gauze, tape, and double-layered synthetic socks!

A very disappointing run - kept cutting through Texas-style, made some silly errors, and got a huge stomach cramp on the long leg. But not a bad time for me... meaning if this HAD been a non-crappy run, my time would have been better-than-average... thus I'm improving =)

There was some possibility of biking with Kelvin today, but instead I taught him to play Canasta, so oh well, just more energy saved up for WIOL Champs tomorrow morning? I had also been hoping to do some yoga yesterday, but I finished and proofread my Presidential Scholars app instead. Oh, life, how you get in the way of exercise. But I've been keeping up with nightly stretch'n'strength pretty well so far, ftw!

Also.... this blister REALLY hurts when I walk even a few steps in normal shoes no matter how I bandage it.... so god knows how it'll cope with running tomorrow.... but whaaaaaatever, if I could run on it raw for my best race ever last Sunday, I can surely run on it partially-healed tomorrow for a decent result ><;;

Haha. Hahaha. It's official: there really is nothing like a workout video to make a person feel *ridiculous*.

But, then again, there is nothing like an inability to wear shoes (due to this annoying blister) to make any other normal exercise options impossible.

Do I feel toned and sculpted? Hah, no. But I feel less like a total couch potato, and a little less depressed about not being able to leave the house in any shoes besides sandals.

Blister looking much better. Perhaps actually able to wear real shoes tomorrow? Likely some biking... we'll see.

Trying to get into the habit of nightly stretch/strength. Strength consists of calf raises, toe taps, wall sits, and planks.

Stretch consists of two calf stretches which my podiatrist suggested.