Training Archive: Tundra/DesertIn the 7 days ending 2007-08-11:
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Saturday Aug 11 | ||
Blue - Splits | ||
Friday Aug 10 | ||
Red - Splits | ||
Tuesday Aug 7 | ||
| Cycling 1 [2]9.5 km ( / km) +30m / km | |
| (injured) shoes: Hip Tigers | ||
| Pre-filling today's planned commute to Great Mall (on to either #140 or the #180 from there, then BART to Berkeley, ask the shop to tune up the front derailleur or teach me how to do it). There should not be much climb on the route apart from a half-dozen overpasses. | ||
Monday Aug 6 | ||
| Note | |
| (injured) | ||
| This morning, I found out that sunscreening is far more important on bike rides than it may be for trail runs. The different angle of the sun relative to the exposed part of the skin must have something to do with it. Despite it being mostly overcast, and despite me putting on some SPF 30, the front parts of my bicepses got badly burned. The lower legs got punished, too, but more tanned than burned. I can see two moles forming on the left arm... melanoma! | ||
| C • Sunscreening 4 | ||
Sunday Aug 5 | ||
| Cycling 4:35:04 [3]75.5 km (3:39 / km) +780m 3:28 / km | |
| ahr:153 max:177 (injured) shoes: Hip Tigers | ||
| After a very slow morning start (assembling the bike, figuring out the Polar bike sensor, adjusting the helmet, ...), I got on the road (1, 2). The bike seemed to handle well, but needed a seat height adjustment and some more air in the rear tire, upon both of which I promptly delivered. Twelve minutes later, the rear got a flat. I may have overpressured it.
It took me 28 minutes to change the flat—lack of practice dealing with the derailleur and all. Once I resumed, the ride was fun. The Parker Road portion was not hilly, most of it a four-lane divided highway with a broad shoulder. The next portion, Highway 86, went perpendicular to the north–south drainage patterns, so it was all up and down. Quickly I discovered the lack of specific adaptation in my muscles for this activity, and spent a lot of the uphills in the lowest gear pondering how come there weren't any bigger rear sprockets, and thinking I'd be instant toast on the Peninsula or East Bay hills at home. I was happy to average 12 kph on this stretch, and stopped for Gatorade and water at a Safeway in Elizabeth. The weather stayed overcast with occasional sun; a tad warm (Polar says 28 °C for most of the ride). The last part, the 20 km on Elbert Road from Kiowa to the event site, was flat but painful. I got a few bouts of cramps, obviously the quads, mostly on the left (non-injured) side. I thought that besides overuse/under-adaptation, not bringing any salt pills also had something to do with the cramps. About 2.5 km from the scout ranch, I walked the bike about 800 m until the latest cramp round was over. I ate very little before the ride (a hotel waffle), and had just 5 Gus during. Only encountered one problem driver (SUV with giant trailer, of course), which is probably one more than there would have been at home, but much better than in my memory of the Indiana/Ohio days. The trip took me a lot longer than I had expected; I'd thought 3.5 hours maximum for this distance. I got to Day 2 finish area as it was time to do control pickup. Climb is straight from the Polar, I have little desire to independently evaluate it. The distance from the Polar (using their bike sensor) agreed with Google to within 100 m; signal from the fork unit did disappear a few times until I figured out how to adjust the sensor, but then I did a few extra meters getting to the Safeway. I subtracted the time getting to/from and spent inside the Safeway from the exercise, but not the time spent pumping and changing the flat, as the HR was pretty high during that period. The injury never bothered me during the ride. | ||
| C • Every trip, an adventure 2 | ||
| Note | |
| (injured) | ||
| There was no need for control pickers at Peaceful Valley, however, and it soon thunderstormed heavily, so I passed on the MtbO that had been offered.
Bob Turbyfill found out about my injury and offered his diagnosis: no fracture but indeed shin splints instead, namely a torn fascia (the membrane between the bone and the anterior tibialis muscle). He showed me two exercises he swore would heal it in a couple of weeks. One was strengthening the AT by pulling the toes towards me, to be done several times while sitting at the desk, and the other was meant to stretch the calf by pushing against a vertical surface, feet at shoulder width and toes inward. | ||
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| (injured) | ||
| I caught a ride to the hotel with Valerie, packed the bike, got on RTD, finally found some food in Concourse B at DEN at 10 pm, got on the plane, and slept the way to LAS.
At LAS, they substituted a CRJ200 (56 seats) in place of the scheduled CRJ900 (96, all sold out according to the seat map), and had to bump 40 people. They were offering $700 but I didn't volunteer, given the ticket-has-no-value issue; I'm pretty sure the bump voucher would have been treated in the same no-value way, the whole $700 worthless after ticketing. | ||