Training Log Archive: ebuckley

My my, April and I've only been on the bike twice so far this year. Well, I wasn't thinking I'd do much bike racing this summer anyway. Easy spin in the 60" gear. Calf is still tender, but not inhibiting motion in any way.

Limp is gone, so I decided to see if this is one of those things that heals faster with activity. Seems so - I can certainly feel it, but it seemed a lot better at the end of the run.

Control picking intervals at Babler. Roughly 7x6 minutes with equal recovery.

Caught my foot on a dead branch and drove it into the back of my left calf with considerable force. Hurt like hell at the time, but quickly diminished to a level I could ignore (which I did). During the drive back home it really stiffened up. I'm walking with a considerable limp now. The area doesn't look too bad, so I'm hoping that ice and vitamin I fix things up in short order.

Warmup on the elliptical.

Two sets, moderate, upper only.

Warmup on the new MTB trail.

Rockwoods Test Loop (1:15). 48 seconds off a PR, but solid given the fact that the woods are starting to thicken up.

Then I did some control picking on the 1:10 map at a significantly more relaxed pace. Turned out to be a pretty good concentration drill since all I wanted to think about was that I was tired and hungry.

Test loop - Splits

Got to Indy a bit after midnight when Kate decided we absolutely had to stop. That meant back on the road really early and Kate dropping me off directly at work so I wasn't too ridiculously late for my 9AM meeting. That left me 1) lacking transportation home 2) needing some easy activity to loosen up after so much driving, and 3) very fat after a week of eating out. Running home seemed like a good solution to all three, but mostly I just wanted to see if I could goad another log comment out of Tom Carr for doing a long run on a recovery day.

Includes about 20 minutes of running on the powerline. Misjudged the sunset (again) so it was really dark going through the culvert under 270.

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