Training Archive: PGIn the 31 days ending 2008-03-31:
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Sunday Mar 30 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
| run/hike 42:52 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Three times hiking up the steep trail up South Sugarloaf (8:17, 7:54, 8:20), getting tired on the last one. Back down via the road (7:13), the trail (4:00), and the road (7:07). Still some snowpack on the shaded parts of the road, but soft and good traction. Sunny, mid 40s, nice outing. | ||
Saturday Mar 29 | ||
| orienteering 41:39 [3]5.04 km (8:16 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Taking the day off, I felt like going south a little bit to run in some snow-free woods, but wasn't up for the drive down to Trout Brook. So I talked Gail into coming along and we went to Gay City, where I ran a Green course from the first A meet on the map and Gail walked for about 40 minutes.
Not bad, not great. The knee seemed to manage it ok, just a little sore but I don't think this made it any worse. But wow was I slow, and feeble on any hill, and even going slow I still fell down half a dozen times. But it was good fun, the forest is great, beautiful day, sunny and cool. No O' mistakes to speak of, despite no compass and not wearing my usual one contact, so my reading vision wasn't great. Just had to concentrate a little more, not a bad thing. Route. Saw Clint's flock of deer, plus one control, a remnant of some long ago meet, but no flowers other than the fake ones at the small cemetery by the parking lot. Getting there and back was less fun. Spent about 10 minutes in a tie-up on 384 on the way down and that was the quick trip. On the way back I 91 north was closed in Holyoke due to some sort of accident, and the traffic was horrendous. Here's our route home, about an hour wasted. The last part of the detour was to Hadley to get a good dinner at Butternuts and then to Amherst to see There Will Be Blood. First movie I've seen in a couple of years and really excellent. | ||
| C • Holyoke traffic 7 | ||
| trail running 7:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| To the start, back from the finish. | ||
Friday Mar 28 | ||
| treadmill 41:08 [3]5.0 mi (8:14 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Three inches of slush outside, so I went on the treadmill.
So the entertainment on the tube was a program called "10 Years Younger" or something like that. The premise is that they take someone and have a bunch of people guess how old s/he is, and them do a bunch of things to them over a week's period to make them look younger -- skin treatments, hair, teeth, make-up, clothing -- and then have a bunch of people guess again. And of course they are supposed to guess a lot younger. So for today they did their usual stuff to a woman for whom the first round of guesses averaged 35 years old. They did the make-over, but what was interesting -- not that I wasn't fascinated by the various beauty tips -- was their effort to improve her self-confidence, and thereby her self-image. For this, they picked something that she was afraid of, swimming, she'd never been able to swim and also never wanted to be seen in a bathing suit, and gave her a couple of lessons (from a very attractive guy), and it seemed to have quite a positive impact, the sense of success and the better self-image. So with this, plus the teeth whitening and skin treatments and a new hair do, and make-up and new clothes, she did look better. And the second round of guesses came in at, drum roll please, 28. And she was very pleased, and all the folks on the show were just as excited as could be without actually peeing in their pants, and the show wraps up, but I'm thinking, numbers guy that I am, hold it, 35 - 28 = 7. That's only 7 years younger. Fraud! But it was still pretty exciting, and certainly got me through most of my treadmill session. And also certainly better than my next client. I really need to trust my instincts more and be willing to say no to a new client, or at least jack up my price quote, when I hear the magic words, "It's really simple," or "I've pretty much got it done, I just want you to check it." And I certainly ought to double my price if they walk in the door with a lap-top. I have about 3 clients that do that, and it invariably adds time to the job, and sometimes quite a bit of time, because when you ask for a number, instead of just reading off a sheet, or handing you a piece of paper, they are searching, and then scrolling, and then searching and then maybe muttering and then finally maybe sort of coming up with what you want. And this women, perfectly nice person, a therapist, totally anal, had it all done on Turbo-tax, but was happy for me to prepare it just to be sure, all the numbers were there. Except she had a couple of mistakes and a couple of omissions and it wasn't enough that I made the bottom line better by about $900, but I also had to explain what her mistakes were. And I can only wonder how many hours she puts into her annual tax preparation. The only saving grace was that I did manage to finish up another return while she was searching and scrolling on her laptop, trying to figure out what she'd made in the way of estimated tax payments. Plus read my e-mail and do some web surfing. Normally, when I have a client for the first time who is not well organized, I spend some time spelling out for them exactly what I need from them, and after a couple of years I get them trained pretty well. At which point we can do everything pretty quickly and have time for a nice chat. But I think this woman is a lost cause. I have a note to double the fee if she comes back. I wonder if doctors have a similar reaction when people come in, self-educated on the web. Is it helpful, or does it drive them nuts? | ||
| C • The curse of the Web 5 | ||
Thursday Mar 27 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
| Back to the urologist today, to get the second opinion on the biopsy results and it was mostly inconclusive too, some "highly suspicious" cells though not willing to say they were cancerous. And the recommendation was to do another biopsy, which won't be done until mid-June since you aren't supposed to do them too close to one another, if I understand correctly. So I get to wait another 3 months, though my assumption is that something is wrong and that it is just a matter of time before some serious action needs to be taken. The urologist says that there is zero danger in waiting 3 months, though I am not so sure.
So we set up the next appointment and then as I was leaving, I decided to ask for a copy of the pathologist's report. Which they gave me, and which included a section of the second opinion from the guy at Johns Hopkins. I asked if I could get a copy of that report, and they said they didn't have it, the important comments were what was included in the local pathologist's report. Seemed reasonable, but I still wanted to see the JH report. So I headed off to find the local pathologist (New England Pathologists), which after some searching I found in the bowels of Mercy Hospital in Springfield. They clearly were not used to getting visited by patients. I stood there for a while, quite ignored, listening to three pathologists discuss some slide they were all looking at, Finally some young woman came by, asked if she could help. She could have, of course, but she wouldn't, couldn't release the JH report, but she was nice enough to get me the phone number down there. She went off, but I stood there a little longer reading the NEP report. Another pathologist wandered by, and I asked him what a couple of things meant, and he was quite friendly and we talked a bit, and I asked about getting the JH report. Sure, he said. And a few minutes later I had signed the necessary forms and was walking off with what I wanted. There is an art to chatting people up. Doesn't always get what you want, but often it does. Emotionally not so bad today. I am getting quite resigned to the fact that something will need to be done. Sooner or later. | ||
| C • As you said... 2 | ||
Wednesday Mar 26 | ||
| trail running 34:58 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Greenfield ridge. | ||
Tuesday Mar 25 | ||
| trail running 1:05:14 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Loop up on Greenfield ridge, known either as the 13 hills loop or the hour loop, the latter being more relevant since it took me 65 minutes. In my defense, the conditions weren't good for running fast or sometimes even running rather slow, ice in a lot of places and a good bit of soft snow in others.
But still pretty feeble, had to stop and rest for a moment on a couple of ups through the snow. I suppose the positive aspect is I got out and did it. And the knee was not too bad. No weights today. In the future I may refrain from providing any details as all that seems to get me is a lot of crap.... :-) | ||
| C • a lot of crap 12 | ||
Monday Mar 24 | ||
| trail running 35:14 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| On the Greenfield ridge. Still some snow and lots of ice, have to be agile on the slopes where the trail is icy and tilted. Phil would definitely not like it.
Knee is feeling a little better, didn't seem too bothered by some slipping and sliding. I've been icing it regularly, which reminds me to go get some ice right now -- even though I'm still at the office, there are some dixie cups in the freezer just waiting to be used. Then another PT session after the run. Sent an e-mail to my neice last night, she is teaching in NYC, seeing if she wanted to come orienteering this weekend. It turns out she is busy, soccer tournament, but definitely wants to get out this spring, and has a friend interested too. So I sent her my schedule to see if anything interested her. Which made me realize that I have O' scheduled for the next 6 weeks -- WCOC meet Sunday at Trout Brook (not definite), then Flying Pig, then Billygoat, then Rochester, the Tio-Mila, then West Point. Have to get in shape! At least the last week has been better. | ||
| C • "Phil would definitely not like it." 6 | ||
| nautilus 30:00 [1] | |
Sunday Mar 23 | ||
| run/hike 54:26 [3]4.25 mi (12:47 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| On the south side of Mt. Norwottuck, 99% bare ground. Along the south side trail, then walked up the old jeep road to the top. Surprised up there that there was almost no snow or ice, so instead of going back the way I'd come, I went down the ridge trail and then around and about a little on the trails near the power line just to add a few more minutes.
Felt tired, slow, clumsy, other than that great! 14:38 up the climb. | ||
Saturday Mar 22 | ||
| run/hike 28:32 [2]1.62 mi (17:37 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Parked at the foot of South Sugarloaf, hiked up the trail twice, jogged down the road the first time, the trail the second time. The road was icy in places, I almost went went flying once.
8:14 up, 7:19 down the road, 8:47 up, 4:12 down the trail. | ||
Friday Mar 21 | ||
| nautilus 40:00 [1] | |
| road running 30:52 [3]3.53 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Up to the Poet Seat tower, where it was very, very windy, and back. | ||
Thursday Mar 20 | ||
| part trail, part road 34:11 [3] | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Ventured up on the ridge, where it was pretty crappy, quite a bit of ice intermixed with slush and just a little bit of bare ground, so after 15 minutes of that I headed back to the roads for the rest of the way. Old and slow.
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| nautilus 5:00 [3] | |
| A little bit for the hamstrings and then another test on the way to the goal by 4/15 of 200 on the bench press without hurting myself. A couple of intermediate goals, the first (a Charlie?) which I believe I did today (4x170), the next (a Valerie?) not yet attempted. We shall see.
Also another in the March series of golf classes, 30 minutes of exercises, 10 minutes of advice from the local pro followed by whacking the plastic balls into the netting or a while. Good fun, even though my knee seemed a little bothered, not a good sign. And I think it was someone else who put the hole in the ceiling. | ||
Wednesday Mar 19 | ||
| nautilus 55:00 [1] | |
| 5x160. | ||
| C • Even though I know you have... 3 | ||
| Note | |
| It is generally not a good idea to draw too many conclusions from anecdotal evidence, but such evidence is still sometimes interesting for light it casts upon some issues of the day.
Had a couple today, married, no kids, in their late 30s, she's a silversmith, he was working for a small company that decorates cell phone towers so they look like pine trees. I say, Was working, because last January, 14 months ago, he started getting really terrible headaches while on a job in New Jersey, and finally he went to a hospital and they did a scan and before long they were operating on him to remove a brain tumor. The road back has not been easy, neither personally or financially. He's better, but not well, his balance and motor skills still off, tried to go back to work but couldn't, couldn't get workers comp because it wasn't related to an injury on the job. He's applied for SSDI (social security disability), which it seems like he will surely get, $1,150 a month, but there is such a backlog in the system that it will be later this year before he gets a ruling. You read about such things, the SSDI backlogs, and it doesn't really mean much until you connect it with real people. And in this case, the delay means that they are just barely holding on to their house, and running up credit card debt to live on. And when we get the bottom line on the tax refunds coming their way, the immediate comment is, that's two mortgage payments, and then we do some more work on figuring his medical expenses and we end up at three mortgage payments, which will get them through June. When he finally gets SSDI, it will be retroactive and he may get a lump sum of 20K, though 5K of that will go to the lawyer. At least the house will be safe. As long as the judge gets around to his case before too much more time goes by. For all the stories about people losing houses, or walking away from houses, it hasn't happened much around here. Never had the boom, so you never get the bust. Haven't yet had a client come in saying they filed for bankruptcy. But just this one case reminds you that for all the stories about the economic dislocations that have been happening, it's only when you see them happen to a real person, no fault of their one, just bad medical luck in this case, it reminds you to count your blessings. Every day. Maybe that's why I was taking 11 minutes per rep.... | ||
| C • Worker's Comp 5 | ||
Tuesday Mar 18 | ||
| road running 27:56 [3]3.36 mi (8:18 / mi) | |
| Another plod, but aches were tolerable. | ||
| nautilus 30 [1] | |
| Due to the recent inflationary pressures on the G, I had to go back to the bench press machine. 7x150, seemed easy, the first few at least. That should keep me above the G, at least for a little while.
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| C • level 3? 3 | ||
Monday Mar 17 | ||
| road running 25:17 [3]3.11 mi (8:07 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Working way too hard for the pace. Knee no worse. Still doing my icing and exercises, plus as a result of today's PT visit I now have a strip of tape running up the back of my leg to add just enough tension to keep me from overextending my left knee, which I apparently do and which apparently puts more stress on my hamstring. Under the theory of "you can't teach an old dog new trciks," I have my doubts that this will do any good, but I'll play along.
Meanwhile, my eating continues at an awesome pace. | ||
| C • The G? 12 | ||
Sunday Mar 16 | ||
| nautilus 45:00 [1] | |
| Another good session, including 9xG bench press. Rested a moment, then did 10x100. Rested a moment, set the pin at 160, raised it about 3 inches and no more. Tried at 150, raised it again about 3 inches, clearly not going any farther up. What's the phrase, a man's got to know his limitations?
As I was typing this in, I must have had a smile on my face, because Gail asked what was amusing me. I responded something to the effect -- I'm often amused when I'm tying stuff in my AP log -- and then added, It seems like I'm easily amused by myself. Not such a bad thing! | ||
| road running 18:27 [3]2.22 mi (8:18 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Then out for a short run, same as Thursday. Knee was maybe a little better. Time to start running a little more, as I just sent in entries to the Pig and the Rochester meet. Right now I'd be hard pressed to do any O' faster than a walk. | ||
| C • walking 1 | ||
Saturday Mar 15 | ||
| Note | |
| Trying to ice the knee regularly (3-4 times a day) plus gentle stretching plus very gentle strength exercises for the hamstring. Using dixie cups, filled up about 2/3, tear off enough of the cup to expose the ice but leave enough of the cup for something to hold onto, 10 minutes of ice massage, put what's left back in the freezer, a cup lasts for 3 or 4 times.
The easier some is to do, the more likely you do it. | ||
Friday Mar 14 | ||
| nautilus 45:00 [1] | |
| Full workout, 25K pounds, just doing all the lifts quicker -- the machines are set to beep annoyingly if you take less than 2 seconds on the way up or less than 4 seconds on the way down. It always seemed slow, but I haven't really tried to find out what the pros and cons were.
But I discovered that if you get three straight "fast times," then that shuts off that annoying beep for the rest of your time on that machine. And that was such a nice thought. So I started doing the first two ups and the first down too fast on purpose to turn off the beeper, and then do the rest a little faster than 2/4, maybe 1-2 up and 2-3 down. Seemed much more pleasant, maybe just in the fact that I got up to 16 (my usual number of reps) a little quicker. But, not sure if this is better or worse than going slower. | ||
Thursday Mar 13 | ||
| road running 19:44 [2]2.22 mi (8:52 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| A little loop in town. Knee still sore, not terrible. At least I'm icing it regularly now, see if that does any good, plus I put the heel cushions back in. Calf muscle I strained last week was ok.
Last client today was a geography professor, he said he'd heard I used to be on the Wheaties box. I asked if he'd ever seen any O' maps. Nope. So I pulled up a few on the web and we spent a pleasant 30 minutes chatting. He may teach map stuff, but I think he's in trouble without his GPS. | ||
Wednesday Mar 12 | ||
| nautilus 40:00 [1] | |
| The usual Nautilus stuff, pretty vigorously. Plus another PT visit. Amazed at how weak my left hamstring is. Problem is, strengthening it is difficult since it hurts down by the knee if I try work on it. Got to fix that problem first.
All of a sudden, way too busy at work, thought I had pretty much caught up last weekend and now I'm swamped again. Very few weird clients, lots of just nice decent people. Plus several dead people, well, returns for dead people, brought in by the offspring. Best as I can tell, even a dead person can get the tax rebate coming in June. Don't we have a great system! And the thing is, mid-March is supposed to be a little slower, time to catch up, also time to get out for plenty of exercise. Such as my golf class, which started up yesterday. 30 minutes exercise, 30 minutes work with the local pro on the swing. At some point the pro, trying to give us a dose of reality, said that golf is a game of misses, you never hit the ball perfect, the challenge is to hit good misses. So I had to point out that last year, a particularly fine year, I had hit a very large number of what I (as well as any observers) felt were absolutely perfect shots. Which I said with a big smile. He seemed rather surprised. Am I the only one? It was, as I said, a very fine year on the links, and only 35 more days to the start of the season this year. Back to work.... | ||
Monday Mar 10 | ||
| Note | |
| Some of the shows that get watched on our TV seem to always have a short preface stating that the following program contains themes of an adult nature, or something like that, and viewer discretion is advised. A similar notice might be appropriate here....
So I went back to the urologist today to find out the results of the biopsy, and the results were, well, it wasn't clear. They had snipped me in a dozen places and 11 of the samples were clean, but one of them looked like maybe it was something to worry about, and maybe it wasn't. So the local pathologist has sent the slides (or maybe a computer scan of the slides) off to a guy at Johns Hopkins, which they do once in a while when they want an expert opinion. And I get to wait another two and a half weeks to find out what he thinks. The self-descriptive phrase that popped into my mind as I was driving home was "emotional wreck." But maybe it was one of those times that a longer drive is better, gives you time to try and sort things out. And under the assumption that there is probably something wrong that caused my PSA number to head up, then it's clearly better to find out about it sooner. And if I had gotten a clean bill of health, there would still be the nagging thought that there is something wrong. And I like the idea of a second opinion. One friend and fellow AP reader has urged me to do just that, and had sent me a list of the half dozen or so recognized experts at this. When I got home, I checked his list, and there was this guy from JH. Excellent! But there is still the great unknown about which way and how fast this journey goes. It's funny how it bothers me. I'm not losing any sleep. Most of the time when I think about it I put it out of mind pretty quickly, perhaps due to being so busy now. It just going to the doctor's office that makes it all very immediate and unavoidable, and I fall apart. I suppose practice will bring improvment. Meanwhile, the doctor, totally optimistic, says we will fix it, we're onto it very early, don't worry. Easy for him to say.... ------------------------- Back home, fill Gail in on events, then off to work, where my three ladies want to know how I made out -- the best thing I did there was tell them from day 1 what was going on. So I fill them in, and take care of some stuff for a couple hours, and then head over to the gym for medical appointment #2, this at the PT business that is affliated with the gym, to see the boss, Jeff, to look at my knee. And he pulls and pushes and twists and everything seems ok except for where the inside (medial) part of the hamstring attaches on the inside of the knee. And since he is interested in cause, not just the symptoms, he has me walk up and down the corridor, and then do it some more while he gets 3 or 4 other PT folks to come watch, my biomechanics being so bad, and then he gets me on the treadmill to watch some more. So he's thinking about how I might to try and change my stride. And in the meantime, some ultrasound and some exercises to do. Nice to know there was nothing else wrong. And maybe a little more aggressive treatment will do some good. Though fixing my stride may just be a pipe dream. Nevertheless, a sense of progress, or more accurately, the possibility of progress. Several more appointments made over the next three weeks. | ||
| C • Today's treadmill seesion f... 2 | ||
Sunday Mar 9 | ||
| nautilus 55:00 [1] | |
| Another trip to the gym. | ||
| C • Can you email me your maili... 1 | ||
Friday Mar 7 | ||
| nautilus 55:00 [1] | |
Thursday Mar 6 | ||
| Note | |
| So I'm finishing up with this old lady, maybe 85, and we're talking about politics, Obama vs Hillary, she unfortunately for the latter, and then she has to go and on parting she says, "It's nice to talk to someone with a brain."
I laugh. She continues, "My problem is, all the men in my life were good looking, but no brain." I laugh some more, though it makes me wonder what it would be like to go through life with good looks but no brain. And reminds me of another couple, a month ago, maybe in their 30s, she's average looking but pretty smart, good job, he's very good looking, works as a laborer at a dairy farm. At some point she wants to know if they should be doing anything different. Well, I said, he should be putting money in a retirement account. But, I continued, I suppose because he's such a stud he figures he'll never get old. And he smiled, and she glanced at him and then she really smiled, the kind of look that said, he really is a stud, and he's mine. Even if he may be a little short on the brain side. | ||
| C • good looks but no brain 1 | ||
Wednesday Mar 5 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
Tuesday Mar 4 | ||
| Note | |
| More tales from the tax crypt....
1. A bit of follow-up on one of my weird clients. A week or two ago I had the couple where the average was 18 teeth and a blood alcohol level of .10. I had been told to expect the guy's brother, and he showed up today. Looked quite similar, appeared to have all his teeth, but by all indications he was quite sober. And he had a bit of interesting stuff in his tax return, he moved back here from California in late 2006, lived in his girlfriend's house, she claimed the deductions for that, but he still owns 2 houses in California, the one he used to live in, now occupied at least temporarily by some relatives, and the other a house he cosigned the note with his son, and his son dropped out of sight and so he owns the house (and the mortgage). So he has lots of deductions and is paying almost no tax, though I wonder how he is managing to handle both mortgages. And I tell him about the rules for selling either one so he can minimize any tax due, and he's an ok guy. And just at the end I see a couple papers off to the side and he says I don't need those, but I look anyway, and a couple are statements of IRA accounts which have no bearing on what we're doing, and then there is a third mortgage statement from Countrywide, this one showing 27K in mortgage interest paid. Well, that seemed to have some bearing. Oh, no, he said, even though it had his name on it, someone else was making the payments and claiming the deductions. So, let's see, he's live rent free in one house, he owns two other houses that he pays the mortgage on but others live in rent free, and then there is another house that maybe he owns (at the least his name is on the mortgage) but someone else is making the payments. I would imagine this sort of stuff is a lot more common out in California or other places where there has been a housing bubble, except that there are surely a whole lot of houses where nobody at all is making the payments. Around here we never had the bubble, so the problems, so far, are pretty limited. This guy had also been laid off recently. He waiting to get a new job until he has his operation done. I asked, with some trepidation, what for. A hernia, he said. We moved on. 2. Had one of my favorite couples last night. She's short, a little dumpy looking, early 30's, works as an environmental police officer, and is just full of zip, funny, and I gather not one too be trifled with, having heard stories of her dealings with poachers and renegade snowmobilers and the like. She got married a couple of years ago, nicest fellow you could imagine, good looking, from Nigeria, from a good family I think, black as can be. He's an auto mechanic, foreign cars, I consult with him on my Subaru, though my Subaru has been really trouble free for the 135K miles it's done. We're talking about job expenses he can deduct and he asks about gym expenses, and I say that I do that for people where it seems to be a requirement of the position, like public safety officers, but I wasn't sure about that being the case for machanics. And while I'm checking the IRS regulations just to be sure, I ask him which gym he goes to, and it turns out he goes to a boxing gym in Northampton, and he loves boxing. So for 15 minutes I find out about the world of small-time amateur boxing, and it's one of those times I wish I could just cancel my next appointment and break out a couple beers and just, what's the word, chill? But I do find out some interesting stuff, including that last year he dropped 10 pounds (165 to 155) just to see if it made a difference and he felt really fast in the ring. So boxing is apparently just like orienteering. Always glad to see these two, the hour goes by too quickly. 3. And today I had a women for whom dropping 10 pounds would probably be about a couple of weeks' work. She is huge, though my memory is such that I didn't remember how huge she was until she tells me that she is down 67 pounds from last year, or, more accurately, from before the operation, a gastric bypass. I'm not quite sure of the details, but she's left with a stomach that's no more than an inch in diameter, so she can eat all she wants, but she fills up really fast, and so she doesn't eat that much. I'd guess right now she might check in somewhere between 250 and 300, maybe more, that's after dropping the 67. What's her goal? Real thin, she said with a big smile. She is just loving it. And a sweet lady too, she quit her job as a nurse last year to tend for her ailing dad and then he died two months later. She has enough put away so she doesn't have to go back to work, so she's just going to enjoy life. Good for her. | ||
| C • I am guessing the friendly ... 2 | ||
Monday Mar 3 | ||
| road running 7:00 [2] | |
| Continuing to go downhill. Headed off for a short easy run. Knee seemed a little achy, not bad, but not quite a mile out I got a sharp pain in the calf, same leg. Been there before. Stopped immediately, walked back. Probably will take a week or two to sort that out. Crap.
On the positive side, I think I need to acknowledge how very fine it is to have Kris and Gil and Cristina running the whole Sprint Series operation. And also, how fine it is to have Tom and Eric doing a bunch of coaching for the Team (and others). And also, how fine it is to see some Team members getting better and having something to show for it, like Sandra beating Simone in a race in Spain last month, or Kat winning the British night-O' champs. Progress. It's easy to forget that these things only happen if someone steps up and makes them happen. Now, if I could just get my legs back so I could do a little training, or even a little sprinting. PT appointment next Monday. | ||
Sunday Mar 2 | ||
| nautilus 35:00 [1] | |
| Including 4xG bench press. But not doing any leg stuff, seeing if the knee gets better, but it still isn't right.
Almost caught up at work, and the busiest period is behind me. Might even have time to start reading AP again. | ||
Saturday Mar 1 | ||
| Note | |
| More slimming, 137 | ||
| C • :) 3 | ||
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