Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

I went to the US Ski-O Champs, held by BAOC, only to get a flight into the 25k mile UAL promotion. But, the event did not disappoint. I had not skied for four years. My goal was to be within twice the winning time, and I made it without problems; I could have been about 170% had I not been stupidly insisting on going off-trail, through the woods, and falling and getting consumed by the snow.

I felt just fine throughout the experience. Obviously my upper body muscles were unfit for the uphills, but the technique let me fly downhill.

Blue - Splits

The Woodside trail run. A PR by 19 minutes. In 2004, I would have glowed about a few minutes' improvement... Today, I felt: Powerful. Tireless. Efficient. Confident: running-wise. And: Sick. Diseased. Unbalanced. Nauseous: otherwise. Had neck pains, feeling of dead and dying cells being expelled from somewhere behind my throat and left, chills, shivers, strange salivation, but fortunately no headache. The head did not feel full and the brain did not bounce inside on the downhills.

My general mode shifted between being totally in the groove and being sure that I would expire of a heart attack in the coming two or so minutes. Startingly, this oscillation did not seem to affect my progress. I almost threw up just over an hour into the race. I got dizzy at the time, but that passed and did not return. I felt in command on the second giant climb, in Wunderlich, but on the subsequent Skyline Trail run, it felt like the whole heart muscle was getting inflamed. I blocked the feelings out on the final downhill. Clocked the last kilometer in the low 3 minutes.

I believe this is my first PCTR 50 km run in which I ran the whole way; no walking ever. Aid station time: 3:14. Ate half a banana, one Clif shot, and some nuts (but did have a nice breakfast with coffee well before the race). Drank a lot, but no caffeinated beverages during the race, thinking I'd flip out. Ate plenty of salt and ibu. No cramps.

One reason I did so well may be that I appear to have lost quite a bit of weight ever since the disease started.

C • Congratulations. 1

I took all the supplements I had last night at once, about a day's dose (I haven't been taking them for about a month because I ran out and the stuff is expensive), plus about 5 g of C (with the C that was already in the supplements, I think I ended up with about 8 g). I think I am healthy now.

I slept for almost 12 hours last night. Woke up feeling better. Today, it all just feels like I have an infection/inflammation, centered around the left inner ear. Deeply in there.

Ran 2×Baylands during lunch hour (26:13 26:39). Felt alright. Not bad, not great. Cold sweats in the beginning, then fine. Afterwards, had funny sensations (alternating heat and cold) in the head.

Definitely something is going on. I passed on the intervals just like last week.

C • hej 4