Saturday Nov 10 |
 | Running hills 30:00 [3]4.0 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| slept:7.0 weight:176lbs (injured) shoes: Black and Yellow XC spikes |
| Drove Buster to a XC race and saw that they were accepting open entries. Well it took 1/2 hr to sign up (ended up having to join USATF). Immediately, I had to run to the starting line. No warmup. As soon as the race started, I found myself in dead last and getting deader by the minute. For some reason (which I now understand, I couldn't handle the downhills). The first mile split was 6:20. Sometime after that, I didn't notice that the runners in front of me had made a loop in a baseball field. I was just following a white line. When I looked behind me and saw the leaders, I pulled aside and walked to the 2 mile marker. I got a map from a spectator, waited for the end of the line, and map in had finished the course. As soon as I started up, I realized that I was lame in my left foot. No push there, so I had to run flat-footed on one side.
I went home and stuck my foot in ice because I still had to drive 1-1/2 hr to go to.... |
| Orienteering race 1:35:00 [3]*** 6.7 km (14:11 / km) | |
| spiked:10/15c (injured) shoes: Black and Yellow XC spikes |
| Course set by Matt 'king of pain' Bond.
My mind was still in 1:15000 mode from last weekend. I got to 1 before my mind warmed up. I saw a control and it was mine. I overran #2. The next two looked technical, so I bore down and did well. After #4, I took off running and passed #5 and spent the next 20 minutes going up and down the next re-entrant. It wasn't really an excusable parallel feature error. Did something similar on #8. During the first long leg, my left leg started getting sore, and then during the second long leg, I stepped on something sharp while running fast downhill and the pain shot up my leg. It is always uncomfortable to do that, but it just so happens that the point of impact is the insertion point of my already tender tendon and I think that explains the pain in the whole leng. It was bad enough that I had to limp the rest of the way.
I have been icing the leg all evening. |
Friday Nov 9 |
| Swimming (easy) 15:00 [1] | |
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Thursday Nov 8 |
| Nordic Track (Reading) 30:00 [1] | |
| slept:9.0 weight:175lbs |
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| Running (Easy Fartlek) 40:00 [3]* | |
| shoes: Black/Red Free Xtrain |
| Over the Hills and Dales golf course. |
Tuesday Nov 6 |
| Weightlifting (5x5 circuit) 20:00 [3] | |
| weight:175lbs |
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| Jogging 20:00 [1] | |
| slept:8.0 |
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Sunday Nov 4 |
| Orienteering race (Red Y) 2:01:30 [3]*** 7.4 km (16:25 / km) | |
| spiked:14/16c slept:8.0 shoes: Black and Yellow XC spikes |
| Flawless navigation through the 7th control. OK start next leg but as soon as I crossed the road, everything looked funny. I overran the 8th control slightly and had to climb back up from the stream. The next leg was supposed to be trivial but I spent half and hour stumbling around the control circle before I finally stubbed my toe on the control post. Everything was OK after that, except that I encountered a sphinx on the way to 14 who gave me the choice of 4 directions at a trail crossroads and I sampled all of them. |
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Day 2 Red Y - Splits |