Training Log Archive: W

'twas a late night last night. But I was still motivated to get out and go for a little run post-wedding. I definitely drank quite a bit, but really felt no ill effects and went for a golf course jog by myself. Good stuff.

There was a fully day on Friday with rehearsal dinners and moving to different hotels and whatnot that simply training didn't happen.

But, Saturday, it was required to go for a wedding run, so instead of running the dirt roads, we ran some of the roads of the golf course. No doubt it would be crazy boring to be a runner here all the time. You'd be great at running in the heat, but there's simply no great places to run and very little variety. This is just an out and back that really only takes 45 minutes, though I suppose you could also add some little detours to make it a bit longer. Sure, the scenery is nice, but you can only see the beaches sometimes, then otherwise its just fancy houses, fancy houses being built, and fancy houses not being built by Caymanians who are sitting around smoking pot.

The vast majority of what we saw was the last one.

Virtually the same run as yesterday, but clearly a bit slower. I'm still stuck on Finnish time it seems, so I get crazy tired and then pass out for about 11 hours. I don't have time to nap during the day nor should I, and today was compound by going to Stingray City, which although making me tired, was way cool. Stingrays! You feed them! They smash into you! Good stuff.

Near Claire's place, there's basically only two places two run. Both of which are your basic dirt roads through mangroves. When its kind of breezy, the heat is not so bad. Today, there was no breeze, so it was pretty damn bad! Basically we zig and zag on these roads with the sun beating down and me still kind of sick. I am actually finding the humidity might be helping to clear up my sinuses a little, or maybe its all the cold pills I'm taking.

Either way, although its not great to be sick at my sister's wedding, I'm not exactly getting a lot of opportunities to go running anyway, so, in a sense, its mildly... convenient? The whole 48 hour flight adventure from Helsinki-YEG-Cayman Islands was pretty awful though.

Well, it was bound to happen, having to travel for basically 48 hours, I got sick, just in time to arrive on a tropical island. Nevertheless, I've pounded back some cold pills and ventured out to do some exploration runs near Claire's place. She lives near "Barker's National Park", which is basically a collection of dirt roads among mangroves. Dead flat, not crazy attractive, and super hot. Thankfully there was a breeze so it was tolerable for the most part, but I was still good and sweaty when done. Finland this is not.