Sunday Jan 14 |
 | Road Run 1:21:01 [3] 10.29 mi (7:53 / mi) | |
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| SMAC run in South Deerfield. I had good energy all the way to the end, and both the Achilles pain and the toe pain were tolerable. I started with Peter, but he was not having a good day; he fell back on the hill in the third mile and cut the run short. At route 5, I waited for Ned and ran with him for a couple miles. Then I picked it up a bit, gradually reeling in the group ahead of me at 9 miles and finished with them.
mile splits: 15:35 (2), 8:15, 7:54, 7:53, 7:40, 8:10, 7:55, 7:43, 7:41, 2:12 |
Saturday Jan 13 |
| Road Run 3:22 [2] 0.4 mi (8:25 / mi) | |
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| Started out (after dark) to do the Child's loop, with new road shoes, but by the time I got to the end of Columbus the neuroma pain was so bad I decided to head back and try something else ... |
| Road Run 29:43 [3] 3.84 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
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| So I took an old pair of road shoes I wasn't wearing any more because they made my neuroma unbearable, and I cut a hole in the insole and stuck a metatarsal pad in the hole. Voila - no toe pain throughout the run. But my Achilles is another matter. I read in my "Injured Runners Handbook" that, for Achilles tendonitis, you want hard, even, flat surfaces. Which this run was. But the Achilles seemed just as sore after this run as after yesterday's run on uneven and hilly trails. Maybe the ice I tucked into my sock and left for a half hour will help.
I looked at the track on Google earth, and it even shows clearly which side of route 9 I was running, and where I crossed the street! Only one "mistake" to speak of where I apparently jumped across the street on top of a building, then jumped back and continued on. |
Friday Jan 12 |
| Trail Run 1:07:21 [3] 6.21 mi (10:50 / mi) | |
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| Bike trails with Peter at Norwottuck, including Far Out, Far Side, and Pete's Wicked. A roller coaster, in parts, though never too steep since the bikers have to be able to get up them. The rocky trail and constant turns made it impossible for me to keep map contact when we were on unmapped trails, which was most of the time. Achilles was OK during the run, pretty sore after. No opportunity to ice it.
The actual track from Forerunner looks nothing like, and sometimes goes nowhere near, where the trail is drawn on the biking map (for one thing, not nearly as much back and forth). It's a mystery, since the bike rag website is full of references to GPS.
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| C • GPS 9 |
Thursday Jan 11 |
| machines 30:00 [3] | |
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| Bike 20, elliptical 10. Achilles good enough to go tomorrow. |
Tuesday Jan 9 |
| Trail Run 46:56 [2] 4.89 mi (9:36 / mi) | |
| ahr:133 max:148 |
| Mill R. parking out the Frost to the stone wall, then the .83 mile loop trail to the west, then a slightly different route back. Easy pace.
I was in Geek heaven. I finally replaced my HR transmitter strap (which I lost last summer) with a new "wearlink" model: the soft electrodes make better contact and are more comfortable. So I wore both my Polar HR watch and my Forerunner. The Forerunner has now been customized to display the 9 statistics (on three pages) that I most care about. So I spent about as much time looking at my watches as looking at the trail or my surroundings. And I now have the Forerunner set to sound automatically at each mile. The first one startled me a bit; I thought my cell phone was ringing.
All this took my mind off a sore Achilles. Probably should take a day or two off. Bummer. |
Monday Jan 8 |
| machines (elliptical) 25:00 [3] | |
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| After lifting. Sore left achilles. |