Training Archive: PBrickerIn the 7 days ending 2006-11-12:
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Saturday Nov 11 | ||
| Event: BATONA 500 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:09:20 [3] 6.35 km (10:55 / km) | |
| DVOA "Batona 500", Day 1, Green, in the NJ Pinelands. Interesting terrrain with subtle contours, but too much blueberry for my taste.
My back, which had been hurting all week, "went out" as I was leaving 5. No fall: I had messed up 5, thought "let's pick it up a little", and with a slight twisting motion, it "snapped". Then, I lost concentration and wandered around NW of 6 until I finally went to the trail to relocate. I continued on, trying to ignore the pain (my legs were working!), using a very short stride to minimize twisting, and I finished the course with just a couple small errors. I'm not sure it was wise to finish, but that's what I'm programmed to do: after 5, find 6, then find 7, ... then head to the finish. When I finished, it quickly became obvious my weekend was over - my back muscles seized up, and any twisting or bending was very painful. So, after hanging around for a few hours, I headed home. Ten hours of driving for 69 minutes of not very good orienteering. Well, you take your chances ... As I write this on Sunday morning, I'm totally crippled, unable to stand up straight, or walk without holding on. There's no position - lying, sitting, or standing - that isn't somewhere between discomfort and pain. I'm about to fill a presciption for a muscle relaxant, which I hope will help. The only question is whether this will take weeks or months to heal. No more racing this year. I'm sure Charlie had something to do with this: some sort of actuarial voodoo. | ||
| C • Ouch 7 | ||
Day 1 Green X - Splits | ||
Thursday Nov 9 | ||
| machines (elliptical) 30:00 [3] | |
Tuesday Nov 7 | ||
| Orienteering 1:15:53 [3] 5.4 km (14:03 / km) | |
| Norwottuck, made a "green" course using points from my 2004 score-o, coming at most of them from new directions. Pretty accurate overall (except for mistaking an unmapped trail for a mapped trail losing 3-4 minutes), but a lot of hesitation and not moving very fast: partly a sore back, partly low energy, partly just the amount of thick vegetation, deadfall, and rocky ground.
Came at the junk car this time from the south and nailed it: it never saw me coming (it points to the north). Had an orienteering first: while reading the map I head-butted a tree - not a branch, mind you, but a 1-2 foot diameter trunk. Staggered around for 10-20 seconds, then went on my merry way. | ||
| C • I head-butted a tree
Just b... 3 | ||
| Trail Run 20:00 [2] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| Some easy jogging getting from the visitor center to the south side and back. They've expanded the quarry south, engulfing the trail that runs by it. | ||
Monday Nov 6 | ||
| Road Run (tempo) 35:10 [4] 4.9 mi (7:11 / mi) | |
| UMass loop after dark, but still around 50 degrees. A decent effort, but didn't feel very fluid with my foot and back both bothering me. | ||