Training Log Archive: maprunner

Back to the woods weekend. It's still a bit too early, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Mike set a course for me at Wyandotte, mostly on trails and roads, with some brief forays through the nicest woods. It was a fun course, and good practice (I need it!). Walked most of the time, since my right knee protested if I jogged too much. Not many spiderwebs left, so it was a nice day to be out and about.

At SMP after work. Three sets of 8 min/ 2 min. Knees felt good during the run, but now they ache a bit. I think I'll ice them as I sit like a slug and watch my favorite three hours of TV tonight :)

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Decided it was time to start running again. So I went to the local HS fields, and jog/walked three repeats of 7 min/ 3 min. Felt a tweak once or twice in either knee, but nothing really bad. Mostly muscle fatigue in flabby muscles that haven't been trained in a couple of months. Depressing how quickly it goes. But it was nice, cool morning, and they had laid out a cross-country course around the fields, so I had fun. And I'm really encouraged by how my knees felt. If they feel OK tomorrow, I may consider marking myself as "recovered" from this injury :)

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I'm marking this as more intense than usual, since the therapist put me through some new, tougher exercises.

Relay champs. Last year, I had one of my worst O days, ever, at the Relay. I was determined to have a good clean run today.

And I did actually run, at least 50% of the course (OK, jog is more accurate than run, but I was definitely not walking :)

I was really nervous when Peggy tagged off in SECOND place; there was no way I could hold onto that. But I could do my best, and not screw up. I was mostly clean. Overran 2, but caught myself quickly. A big mistake at 7, after I ran through the spectator control. I think too much about the fact that everyone is watching, instead of reading the map, and I just blindly ran ahead. Tried to calm down and read the map to relocate, but instead I wandered a bit till I could think clearly and find the control. Lost about 2.5 minutes here.

Overall, I had a decent outing. Lots of room for improvement, but probably the best I cold have expected this year. After my leg, we fell to 9th place, but fortunately Mike had a great run and brought us back up the 4th, which Mook maintained. Next year, we're on the podium!