Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Thought I was running first, so I taped in the car, but then Angelica decided she had to go first, so I watched the kids for an hour, and by the end (40 degrees & drizzly) I had numb, taped, tight feet. Possibly contributing to (mild?) injury?

Warwick score O' with some memory bits. L-foot sore on ankle eversion impacts ~1-2 minutes into the race. Sore on downhill on grass 5 minutes into the race. Really sore on some tufty grass that I was trying to run across on eversion impacts (outside-edge of foot hiting a tuft/bump.) Ratched back the pace and aimed to land on left forefoot a lot to soften the impact on the outside of the foot. That worked more or less, and it was needed as it was darn sore on a few impacts even after that.

The pain seems a bit like the injury that destroyed my Spring season two years ago (on the R-foot), although not nearly as severe (yet???). Will do a short run, stretches and weights on Monday. Took 600mg IB on Sunday evening, and stretched out both feet a bit.



Ended up 2nd as I didn't see one of the clipboards with a memory O' map.

On/off trails. Getting dark. Mt. Joy & Misery.

Loop around Schuykill river (two nearest bridges) from home.

Mt. Joy Cannon sign to top. (Nice to be running in cool weather, except that it was cold... :)
Aiming for 5x, but 2nd & 3rd lagged to pushed 4th hard and bagged it.

1:35 + 1:58 = 3:33 aiming for moderate, consistent pace on first hard interval in nearly 2 weeks.
1:36 + 2:03 = 3:39, visualizing Boris & Mihai trying to pass me, part of the time.
1:50 + 2:03 = 3:53, thinking about a 4-week moving average plot of training on Attackpoint on the first half. Saw what that did to my split... Not good.
1:29 + 1:51 = 3:20 (PR), visualizing Kenny W. Jr. and trying to run like him. Which to me, means keeping my form and tempo more or less the same and trying to push harder to move 10% farther with each stride. Was hard, muscles even felt a little sore from pushing, lungs really felt pushed, but noticed my pace was good as a result, and consistently refocused efforts to push hard. It worked.

I think I'd do these intervals better with other people nearby.

Did as much hill as possible while looping. Aiming for an hour. Drank some during. Not motivated enough and a little nervous about my head in the heat. No problem though.