Training Log Archive: Bags

Taking it easy much slower more walking and cutting back a mile to rest up hips and right outer hamstring.

When I took the Cipro stuff I noticed side effects of blood clots in pee and a little more blood in pee than 'normal'...the last couple of days I took only 1 and never took the last one.

My pee after run today was as red as I've ever seen it...kinda made me weak-kneed again like the first times when I was not used to blood in pee...

I feel fine and the blood clots coming out stopped. I do feel like the infection is gone...now I'm back to 'normal' old man pee-urgency without the extra suffering the infection was causing.

C • CIpro 7

About 4.1 my right hip tweaked a little but went away...about 4.75 my right outer hamstring again tightened up. I walked trotted to 2 laps but thought I might just do a 3rd lap doing that but I decided after .3 out to turn back. Nothing is in agony or feeling super bad...I'm sure I can do my walk trot stuff but running sustained is an unknown and I guess 3 laps at OC is not going to work for now.

Don't know if its the cold or what. I've done everything I can 'google-wise' and it has worked pretty well until Friday. Even at that I did okay Sat/Sun/Mon but trying to run 7.5 did not work out...the thing is two tweaks happened BEFORE I finished 2nd lap.

Poop.

Last night it got down to 10 or 11 with a WC of -15. That is one of the coldest WC since we moved back. The coldest I remember is that first month I went to OU Jan 1978. There was a 6 inch blizzard and either that storm or another storm there was WC of -24 which is the coldest WC I've run in. It was about 15 or 16 when I ran and about zero to +3 maybe WC even though there was not much wind (hallelujah!).

My muscles just do not warm up in this stuff...even with 3 hats and a nylon hoodie on my head...3 tank tops, long sleeve shirt, 2 wind jackets and 1 waterpruf jacket on...it takes me forever to dress and undress...and hang stuff up...the cold still manages to penetrate my multi-layer defenses...if I ran further than I would begin to warm up more...yesterday and today even shuffling along 4 miles and 6 miles hardly sweated which is unusual.

A dusting of snow with just a hint of slickness...there was traction but I actually was mostly shuffle sliding along...I only ran half mile into the wind...was able to run 5 miles E-W and neither way was the wind bad...main thing is when I'm layered up this winter and it's really cold my muscles just do not respond...kinda like in the dark except I waited until 7 to go out and it was light...I ran almost exact same time for 6 miles as I have been for 7.5 at OC but these street runs all tend to have delays and extra add on that when you are running fast are nothing but for 6 miles switching sides of road, etc actually probably adds a couple of minutes to the overall time due to moment loss, etc...

Noticed at 1.7 my watch was not running...messing up this watch a lot lately when I slide on my 15 layers of clothing. Other times I hit the button and it won't start...I hit the button and saw it running but then I had to slide my multiple layers over it and must have bumped the button.

Last 2.45M ran 44:25. Guessed my time to be about 14 min pace as I was really caution at the beginning of run...entire run actually, but REALLY caution of slow trotting for pretty short distance then walking again...was just getting up to .1 or so per trotting session.

Ice mostly gone except on roofs and grass. Abandoning my wise decision to forego the track I impulsively decided to run 12k/30 laps on track...had a debate on whether to run on and make is 7.5...that turned out moot. My right outer hamstring tightened on 22nd lap...as I was debating on cutting back to 10k...even 25 laps versus 24 seemed to become monumental. Decided as I passed 23rd lap to run 6 miles which would be 24 laps and another 60 yards but about 1/3 of way around I stopped...I'm glad I did.

If it was warmer I might have been ok but still cold. Stupid me...I kinda was psyched out by going 3x2.5m loops again but I think the 'sameness' of flat track may have worked against me in the cold...the slight variations of up and down, etc might have allowed me to do 3 loops...

Anyway I'm icing and stuff...so past week I have right hip, left hip and now right ham...I'm pushing to the edge again...I should be ok with some walk/jog along with ice/heat/electro-cardiogram pulsator thingy, stretching, etc.

My splits were remarkably close to the pace of my 7.5 runs...slow start...but I missed out on the quick finish...the 30 laps was daunting (versus 3 large laps) but actually even at the slow pace the laps seemed to go by 'quicker' than I expected...I was thinking I could run 10 miles in a time trial on track just over 60 minutes if I was feeling good and I was shooting for 15 minutes slower for 2.5 miles less...bad me comparing Geezer Rick to Young Rick...and of course thinking is outlawed and I broke the law.

Splits:

1M 11:30
2M 21:30 (11:00))
3M 33:06 (10:36)
4M 43:30 (10:24)
5M 53:30 (10:00)

A lot less ice...but sidewalks still had too many clear ice patches to chance it...able to trot across most of the side entrances today but there were still some slick spots you had to watch for. About 2.3 or so I stepped in a hole in the grass and went down but the grass is very thick...knee ok...BUT...my new almost daily medical emergency was my LEFT hip.

I got up out of my office chair after going thru email and talking to a couple of my former work buddies and my left hip felt like it tried to pop out of the joint. At first I figured it was one of those temporary painful but nothing lasting things but a minute later I felt lame...okay I"m lame all the time but as in walking of course...I did my butt tightening lifts and other googled medical stuff and gradually felt better...I did my hopping and jumping around and it seemed ok...went out not knowing about traction...was pretty cold but the trotting along went ok.