Training Log Archive: AliC

Pushups - 3 x 5 real, 15 on knees

Heard all about the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P from Joel Parker (SWRI) at Toledo's colloquium in the evening. Most notable things:

1) Rosetta had the largest area of solar panels of any spacecraft to date.
2) Rosetta was picked up as a dangerous near-Earth object on one of it's flybys of Earth, boosting out to Comet 67P.
3) All those crater-looking things on the comet aren't actually craters, they are sinkholes as volatiles underneath the surface evaporate and surface caves in.
4) Deuterium to hydrogen ratio is very different than the other 2 Jupiter-family comets that have been characterized. Soooo - not uniform origin for these comets? (Hypothesis has been they all came from Kuiper belt.)

C • Rosetta 1

Core at AirBnB in Toledo while Tom ran.

3 x 15 on-knees pushups after a whirlwind day of seeing people at UToledo.

Followed by catching up with Liz at the Attic.

The plan. What am I doing? Kinda feel at a loss from having a really distinct goal (run my first marathon!) to being injured and without any sure thing to be training for.

But that's actually ok, it means I have nothing to rush the healing of this ankle for. It's feeling better without running on it like I tried last week, and really it's got to be healing. But it is slow and I'm sure will be very weak for quite some time after 4-6 weeks of essentially no running.

To try to not go completely insane, I'm going to alternate core and push-up workouts for this week, while I'm traveling. Then next week, I'll start swimming at the Reed pool (with leg buoy, if ankle flexion is painful still). Hopefully I can then start biking without pain + swelling afterwards and later on, to running. Main goal of the immediate future is just to stay happy by getting some endorphins in and let this silly ankle heal!!

Will fixate on some other competitive goal when it seems appropriate.

C • Remember water jogging. Did... 4

Ok, not happy. Just got a *letter* in the mail that says:

"Your ankle xrays shows the possibility of a small fracture; the foot doctor will discuss with you further."

But, in appointment on Monday, foot doctor *did not* discuss with me further. And now I'm flying to Michigan/Ohio for the week.

Will try calling foot doc tomorrow... Seriously, do they not have my phone number? Is there some patient confidentiality thing that says you mail letters to people when they may have broken bones as opposed to calling them up? Pretty sure I got my Lyme test results over the phone. Not cool.

C • maybe they tried to fax it first 1