Training Log Archive: TomN

Core strength and stretching.

Drumm loop. An afternoon run, courtesy of Daylight Time. Low 40s and very windy, but comfortably dressed.

Echo stress test at the cardiologist's office. Chest exfoliated, 15 tabs stuck to skin, harnessed to machine, get doppler imaged, then hop on treadmill, go until HR > max (that was the 20 min), then back on the table and get doppler imaged again. Verdict: I'm too healthy to be in his office, but he wants to see me in another year nevertheless. The issue is the mitral valve, which is still holding, like the boy with his thumb in the dike.

Drumm loop. Started out in a break in the rain, but it was coming down hard when I finished. Still, with the temperature around 60, it wasn't at all unpleasant.

PTOC IS-IC Championships M60+ Green, Day 2. Similar terrain as yesterday, mixed fields and forest. Two mistakes, otherwise a fast run. Periodically I have to relearn that I can't take a vague attack -- my lousy sense of direction just isn't up to it. So on the easy #6 control I angled off the trail on what I thought was going to be a simple diagonal, but I was wildly off course and got into a mess of fences and corners before straightening myself out. On #10 I went up the wrong reentrant. This was partly the result of haste, but I think also some brain hypoxia. Looking back, I can see I had already been stupid on #8, but the control was so easy it didn't really matter.

In a 10K road race, I usually spend the second half of the race in a state of reduced consciousness, and can't remember anything about it afterwards. This trick doesn't work at all in orienteering, but unfortunately I don't know how to turn it off.

Day 2 - Green Y - Splits