Training Log Archive: maprunner

Event: US Team Fundraiser
 

Walked the Sprint O course, to get a feel for the terrain. My concentration and navigation was a little bit sloppy.

Sprint - Splits

Some good news for a change: my car is fixed ! They said it was worth $4000, so they went ahead with the $3600 in repairs. I'm so glad to have it back.

Orienteering at SMP. Ran the night O course again, but this was the first time I ran the whole course. I ran it backwards, which made it feel different. I tried to push it as if it were the race next weekend. Felt pretty good moving through the woods, and even ran (not jogged) on the trails at the end. A good day.

Except for one weird event. I had just arrived at a control point and was startled to hear someone talking to me. Apparently, I had passed this older gentleman who was hiking on the trails. The weird thing was he just started talking to me, about some unusual tress he once saw in Idaho. I kept waiting for there to be some point about why he was telling me this story, but there was none. After 2 or 3 minutes, he paused to take a breath and I said I had to finish my run. Very strange.

I have to take a break form the Olympics tonight, and clean up the house before Mike returns from the Georgia meet. I revert to my old sloppy ways when I have the house to myself :)

Possum Trot cancelled the local meet today due to low temps. I admit that I would not want to be working at the meet, but the competition would have been fun. And cold weather doesn't bother me. (About 10 years ago, pre-Web site, PTOC called Mike and I to tell us a meet had been cancelled. The forcast was for single digit temps, and an ice storm. We were the only people they called, because they thought we were the only people who would still have shown up!)

So I dressed up and headed out to PNS. Walked a few minutes to warm up, stretched my calf, and started jogging. The calf/tendon felt fine. I did two loops on the bottom and two loops up the hill. I was a little overdressed (no shorts in winter a la Valerie for me). I wore heavy gloves; I should have worn my lightweight liners. I kept taking them off and putting them back on, so I alternated between hot hands and freezing hands (it was 10-12 degrees).

At one point I was distracted by animal tracks in the light dusting of snow, and I stumbled and bashed my knee. Now I have a nice bump, and I can tell this will develop into one of those really colorful bruises.

But I was very pleased with the way I moved today. The leg felt fine, and I was able to jog for long stretches at a time. Could I be attaining a tiny bit of fitness?????