Training Log Archive: mjulius

Nice and easy.

3:1 3:1 3:1 3

Three intervals of one minute at maybe 70-75% of my current best effort with three minutes to cool down to a medium jog. Wasn't much of a push really. Next time 2:1 x 5 and a little harder. About 80%.

Calves and shins sore but overall feeling better.

Again through the parks around the MTB track. Lots of people around the centers playing in Mahjong tournaments. I ran some of the trails and the moccasins are surprisingly responsive. I can feel the ground, my toes have the space to splay out and work, but the 5mm is enough to soften and spring a little.

I had a 25ish minute loop in mind when I started but I canned it after sixteen. My calves, shins and, wierdly, my general body is sore and sluggish. I think that I am cranking it up too quickly. I guess I am certainly getting older. I don't just adapt to changes as I once did. I have to compromise by being smarter about how I go about building myself up.

Hannah suggested staying at 15 miles but adding in intervals. I think that's a good idea.

First day with the new moccasins. Nice to practice with the same bio-mechanics of a forefoot strike but just enough softening in the sole to be not so concerned with the terrain.

Ran around the parks and access road that surround the Olympic Mountain Bike Track. I like meander-running. Despite all this I felt a little sluggish today and developed some pain below my left kneecap. Most likely owing to the sloppy technique. Also hilly which I haven't experienced before [at least since going minimal].

C • mtb 2

mmhm

Left calf a little tight. I'm a loser for not stretching. Otherwise superfine.

Left calf still tight. I need to stretch and massage it out more than I do. Feeling good. Little changes.

Left calf a little tight. Otherwise nice and easy.

Adding a little mileage today. Still a little skittish about doing that. I use to run ages ago but I would get injured again and again. Always the left knee and that would be it. Back to the bike, which let's face it, doesn't give that same feeling. I used to tell people that I ran because I was addicted to my own endorphins. I ran to get high.

Getting rid of the shoes has given me another go of it. But I am being so careful that I am getting impatient. Today's increase was nice. I actually built up a decent sweat in the afternoon heat but the balls of my feet are a little torn up.

Oh, and strange encounter with an old lady on a bike. She road across two lanes from the opposite side of the street. I saw her coming when she was still coming my way from the middle of the road and I just didn't think anymore of it. She nearly hit me. I jumped backwards [unpleasant on asphalt in bare feet]. She wobble stopped and dropped her bike: a small mixte that even she was able to get off of in a hurry. She sort of swayed around after that, nearly falling before I caught her. A decade of working for the fire department has made me quick to keep the elderly from falling off of things. All I ever hear in my head in these situations is, "Oh shit, he/she might break a hip!" then stop the fall. Don't let old people break their hips. Enough of them never go home after that.

I picked up her bike while she gave me an earful of irritable old lady. Another thing that you get accustomed to in Rescue. I got everything back up and right and stood for another few moments taking in the verbal whatnot, pleading to her, "But YOU hit me!". No go. Finally I just pointed at my eyes then at her and said nothing. She 'harumphed'. Yeah, 'Harumph!' actually came out of her mouth and then we went our separate ways. Whatever. She'll have a meaty Foreign Devil story for her next sewing circle. At least she wasn't hurt.

I squirreled away a little time this afternoon to run and play with the bike. It's in pieces in the living room in various states of overhaul. The short run is nice but I have to agree with Hannah. I am going to go a little nuts unless I continue to make a little time for this kind of fun.

Today, that fun is my current dirty bike-greased paws typing this into AP, far away from the school. More please.

Forgot to charge my ipod [another casualty of infrequent exercise. the ipod. so sad.] so it was just me, the road, flopping keys and a swarm of market goers on Laoshan East.

Easy on the ears though, this early in summer. A bird park was full volume and the chatter of families in sun hats, umbrellas and market bags. It was a regular audio Seurot. Still, I could have used a little Eminem. Oops! There goes my age.

Laoshan South Road and a little more. Summer Intensive schedule is ... intensive. I am going to have to get creative and a little aggressive with lesson planning so that I can fit some exercise into my day.

Legs and feet feel great! So wanted to keep going but no I'm going easy.

Meandering afternoon walk through Shijingshan with Hannah. Late into it I developed some of the same pain on the right lateral underside of my foot. It's on ice now.

Looks like I have a little inflammation of the peroneal tendon [specifically the peroneus longus &/or brevis tendon]. Ice and easy for a few days.

Socks to mediate the hot asphalt. Shin splints the last two days, worsening today. Also pain in the right bottom, lateral side of my foot. The small arch between the cuboid bone and calcaneus [heel]. I should review some anatomy. It's been a while.

Icing the foot for now but I am going to have to add some stretching and strength exercises to support it.

Holy &%$#, is that asphalt hot!