Training Log Archive: AliC

Event: USA Corn Maze Champs, Classic, Sprint, and Relay
 

Morningski with Alex! Nice to get out, super-nice to have company, but oh my gosh is specific strength going to have to be worked on! We just did 2 x our normal set of exercises, normally we do 5, will have to work on up to that. Hopefully I can find a hill in Toledo...

Woo, o-folks from all directions descend upon Sunderland! =) Awesome to see everyone, this was a scooted-in little warm-up, latter half accompanied by Ian.

CMOUSA Classic Champs @ Mike's Maze, Sunderland, MA

Fantastic times. Lovely green corn, no ambiguity from little kids or hurricanes knocking corn down, and a neat maze, if I think a little less tricky than last year?

Anyways, this was my best race, just steady which put me in 2nd, but oodles behind superstar corn-mazer Ian. We need a face-off between him and Greg...

CMOUSA Sprint Champs, 4th

Hm, so I think Giacomo and Giovanni learned how to corn-maze-o in the first edition and were out there threatening Ian on this one, I lost a good lot of time confused to 4, going the left route. Right route got some simpler points!

CMOUSA Relay Champs

First ever? Maybe? But bah! I totally let partner George down by skipping the spectator control. Too bad, but I was having a good run, so after a smidge of debate after I realized what I'd done, I headed out back for another second loop after punching #5. So no DQ, but jeez Ali!

C • ;-) 2

Classic - Splits

Sprint - Splits

leg 2 - Splits

Good noon run with Glenn, none of the usual guys joined in. A loop including Teawaddle Hill, which was really pretty. Chat, chat, chattering to Glenn the whole time, about ticks, my upcoming move, fore vs. heal vs. midfoot striking.

Mellow day at the gym, just an easy base workout on ellitpical, bike, elliptical, floater. Watching some murder-detective show for the first hour... unhelpfully maps are now packed!

Abs + back, waiting for dinner to reheat - microwave is also now gone!

And then spent the rest of the evening reading The Hunger Games book 3, oh my gosh was it hard to put down! I think it took me 5.5h to read in total, all in one day. And yes, I do have better things to be doing, eep!

C • Just read Catching Fire las... 6

Just a mini little b-day double-pole, still easing into it to strengthen the wrists nice n' slowly... laughed out loud when a car full of teenage guys drove up and purposefully slowed down, blasting Eye of the Tiger. Oh yeah =)

My right quad has been pretty sore, not really recovering since the 10k, so and easy day or two now, make sure it really recovers.

C • Happy bday, tiger! 9

Hammies, back up to 15s

Easy-peasy morning jog with Ian after joining in on Good-bye Neil festivities last eve late-ish. It was very, very tempting to try to go orienteering, Blue Mtn is just soooo gorgeous and fun to orienteer in!! But I had one wee tweeky crunch on an uphill when I lost focus for a sec, so definitely a sign ankle isn't ready to orienteer. But if I keep totally focused, can easy trail run at the very least!

Event: Bye bye Peekskill
 

Well, moving takes time, so Ian and I didn't get to participate in Neil's Bye, Bye Peekskill training festivities, boo! Instead just in time to sneak in a road run at home (Poughkeepsie) before birthday dinner with fam. We did a combo of the standard 5 mile loop + Chirstmas loop which ended up being nearly 8 miles. Both ankle and toe seemed fine with this, although maybe just maybe I could feel the tendons on the inside of the ankle towards the very end... will keep tabs on that!

Ankle report!

Woo, so the MRI shows no evidence of an osteochondral lesion, which is great, because cartilage damage = hard to repair and would probably have meant I needed some surgery. (While packing, I came across photos of the chunk of cartilage they fished out of my right shoulder, glad there's nothing like that in my ankle!)

What they did see is:
1) "Nonspecific bone marrow edema within the anterior lateral talus. Small ankle joint effusion."
2) "Probable tenosynovitis of the posterior tibialis tendon and flexor digitorum longus tendons."

So number 1 means, most likely, that the main injury was a bone bruise suffered during an intense flexion during the WOC relay leg. So it should now just be doing the bone thing of healing on up, on the whole 1-3 month timescale. The effusion thing just means there is swelling in the joint, probably because it's upset about the bone bruise incident...

Number 2 is a bit strange, because I haven't noticed much pain associated with these tendons. But it's possible they were aggravated in the same incident.

The plan:
- Be careful. I need to not aggravate the bone bruise for the next month or so, and need to let the swelling in the joint die down. Doctor seemed to think running itself was probably ok, if I didn't notice any increased swelling or tenderness afterwards.
- Strength, strength, strength. The PT in May thought my ankles were strong, but apparently not strong enough to prevent whatever let the bone bruise happened (which, admittedly, was at the end of a long week of o, so maybe things were tired). So I need to just have super-strong ankles that no matter how I land can resist extreme flexion. Will work on that. While packing, I also found the list of exercises from 2 years ago PT when this was the focus, should start those up again...
- Taping. Braces are not particularly good at preventing extreme flexion. But taping can be applied to try to help, so should look into that.

Jog down to Uhaul rental place to retrieve my car, it really only a 4 min jog from my house, yay convenient!

And a baby double-pole, to test how the wrist reacts.