Training Log Archive: philm64

100% focussed on moving house now. Having some osteo treatment for lower back / piriformis, but realistically, the moving will probably set that back too, so a quiet few weeks from me with no running.

Achilles still nigglign most mornings. Not run for a week now. No plans to.

Work went ballistic this week too, so all in all not my time to do sport....

(worryingly, work may renew us contractors now, so my hopes for a nice easy unemployed winter in new house / getting fit will be dashed!)

Felt OK but achilles niggling and back painful .Booked osteopath for tomorrow.... another one.

Cycled to, watched & photo'd the Bristol Half marathon, then cycled up bridge valley road (tough!), a circuit of Ashton Court Nova Blue - never done this, wont' again - too jarring, on my crap bike - 6.66km, and took me nearly 30 mins! Sat down to recover.then cycled home via supermarket & storage area (prepping for house move). 23km!

http://www.mapometer.com/cycling/route_3942667.htm...

- must be some cardio benefit there.

Climbing - Goblin Combe - did some bouldering then led "Treebeard" VS 4c a nice steady route with Steve & Lynne, really enjoyed it, finger fine, great to enjoy the countryside today, Indian summer.

Climbing was far nicer than O yesterday, but no one enjoyed O yesterday so not really relevent. Warm sun drenched limestone - yum.

Achilles felt OK but I think I'll have a break.

I fancy Jenny Jagger.

C • She's too young for you... 2

BOK Saturday winter series, Greyfield Woods.
Green. 4.7 km in 50:35. Masses of "incidents" after no 11.

Difficult to know what to say about this. Just looking at results, I would suggest no 18 is voided - Jackie never found it. Many retired. Winning time over 10 min kms.

Fine to no 11, by which time achilles a little sore.

I never saw no 12 so headed off to 13 but there was a path on the map that wasn't on the ground - in its place was thick vile vegetation. In fact we all got stuck in brambles & nettles (legs tingling madly as i type). (Caroline Potter was later forced to retire having been out for ages). I retraced, hacked through to "green " forest and suddenly saw 12 on my map - i was only 30m away from it, so got away with it. Just!

13 i was the wrong side of the fight, but I sorted out my trouble & again got lucky.

Repulsive forest (bramble "ride" ) to 15 then I nailed 16 - we're on! No we're not. The "runnable" woodland south of 16 was actually impenetrable. see RCRO's log. No 17 was just .... horrible. The "white" was actually - dive in & hope. Please can this end? but then no 18 I could not find - no plan B. UP the hill, see the niche, see the flattening platform - no control. Now what? No plan B. This can't be wrong. so up i went, around, down, a squiggle. Pointless, as I was clueless what to do. Retire -it's been stolen? As i retraced my steps, Alison Simmons ws coming up - i said, no 132? Yep she said. Ah, I replied, as i saw it sitting in a load of brambles in the niche. Led her straight to it. Wrong place, surely? the platform above was on the map, and that was the control site, or it was an unmarked platform - which I doubt.

Achilles too sore at the end - not enjoying running, but finished it off. I'd been leading at 17.

Nnot sure if I should bag off running completely for a few weeks?
http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...

I see "Rebecca Lemen-Hogarth, M21, BOK" probably didn't enjoy his/her run much. 11 DNFs, 21 finishers. That's poor. Even poorer was running out of Light Green maps at 13:45 when the first start time was 13:15. Come on BOK! Is it a competition to put on as disastrous an event as Penpole? This one wasn't that bad, but it was still one of the worst O events I've ever been to.

I forgot my Garmin, but no worries - hopefully soon we will all have forgotten this event. I came 2nd.

Diabetes awareness course, Bedminster.
9:30am - 4pm. Yawn.

I'm now aware of Diabetes.

three obese people, several "LIttle britain" types, and some massively challenged South Bristicles made this somewhat entertainning - one even had a mini-fit after inroducing himself & was carted off ill to see a doctor. (luckily we were above the surgery) Oh dear.

I see the future - it's grim.

Up the FUnction band practice - first in over 3 months due to finger injury. Was good. Pint after. Even better.

Felt a bi crap post yestetrdays run - ill? terribly unfit? Slept badly too. Sweaty. Mind you, huge storm, so.,......

Steady run round the park & up to new totterdown place where I'll soon live.

Rubbish - achilles a bit iffy after 10-12 mins, stretched it out, it was OK, then again at about 28 mins.

Felt ghastly - unfit, slow, uncomfortable. Achilles and left hip niggling enough to restrict me.

Hmm. Not enjoying my sport.....
House move imminent.
Work ramping right up.
Back to both band practices now my finger's muchly on the mend (HURRAH).

Head's not there for sport. It'll come back.

slightly niggly walkiing around

Indoor climbing at redpoint. Finger was fine. Very boring tho, top roping and then leading easy jugfests. I'm bored by my sports. Hmmm.

Decided to leave off the booze for a bit. Actuary has shamed me into it.

C • actuary likes this 7

Some niggling pain eased by lunchtime strtetching. Ice etc, ibuprofen.

Band practice - finger significantly better. Good.

Pub. beer. crisps.

Felt good.

Total refuesal to go to the event when i got up.

I couldn't face that pain in my achilles again in the forest of dean, so bagegd it off and had a day of not doing anything remotely "sporty".

NGOC Caddihoe Chase, Blakeney hill / Mallards pike east. Short brown, 7.6km/ 270m

Retired at 50 mins due to left achilles pain. Found the terrain very tough.
Felt OK warming up, no pain. Wore yellow mud claw.

AS USUAL, AS SOON AS I STARTED, my left buttock felt like it had just been kicked. Thanks, Osteopath in July. It's now the status quo.

Nailed first 3, then a mistake at the difficult and hard to read map at 5 - 2-3 mins lost. I didnt' really know what to do here, to be honest. En route to 6 (at 18 mins? ) noticed left achilles was hurting. V fast to 7 & 8. On route to no 9, which included some hard tracsk & a road, and climb on hard ground, the pain worsened.

No 13 bingo, (I'd caught Mike Hallett 4 mins by now - both milling around), but I was getting past caring. On path to 14, the pain was getting a bit much. I am now not enjoying myself in the slightest. This is bad.

LOst 20 secs at 15 & 16, then OK to 17 dropping Mike, but the 3-400m forest road gravel run en route to 18, i couldnt' take the pain anymore and just stopped, and retired on the spot. (2 mins down on Scrappy doo here, and 2 mins up of Ifor).

Walked back, enjoying the sun, the forest, the map..... planning my retirement til 2015. NOticed the achilles wasn't hurting. Weird, that.

Got back , retired, sat down, drank, ate, (i was soooo thirsty in forest). Still no pain in achilles. Eh?
Put other Innovates on, with inserts, and jogged around. No pain.

OK.

Saw Liz on way home, she had a good prod and again, nothing obvious. I was able to do calf raises on a step with no pain in achilles - feels just like yesterday or thursday.

So.,..... one word: WTF? Tomorrow?????? :-\
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/589572742 - i knew it - i missed th bingo no 13 depressesion by mere yards!!!

C • Maybe the achilles pain was just in your head? 4

Day off (work & sport) - moved the first car load of stuff out of my house to Liz's, and piled it under her bed.
What a fun time I'm going to have with house moves this autumn :-\

more guitar playing - finger still not good enough. 5 weeks til I'm supposed to be gigging at a proper paid private event. Is it enough time... ? I reckon I will blag it - just.

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/#activity/5882738...
Steady run, tho Garmin kept annoying me by claiming i was going really really slowly. WTF?


achilles not great. (left). Left buttock as usual felt as tho it had been kicked.

Probably need to see an osteo. If he can sort the buttock, i reckon the achilles will settle down. Nothing serious going on with achilles, tho. Able to do one leg drops & push ups after with no pain.

Felt quite fit, just not back to form as yet. By a long way! I'm 50 now, I can take it easy.

Went bouldering at New Quarry, AVon gorge. First time for 3 or 4 months since my dreadful finger injury. Really nice to move on rock again, finger fine, used all my fingers (not favouring the others), only did 45 mins, and enjoyed the stretching out that climbing gives - kind of vertical yoga.

I should do this once a week, to help with flexibility if nothing else. For, as I know now, I'm a massively "untalented" climber. Due to piss-weak grip strength.

Pub - 2.5 pints. Crucial part of training regime.

Achilles - felt fine. The pain has moved to Actuary's achilles instead. Poor him :(

C • Tag 2

Steady run around park & to new house. Felt unfit but better than last thursday's ridiculous trundle. Illness subsided, legs strong from Alpine walking, lungs suspect, achilles.... not 100%, or perfect, but not bad either tho I'm still rather worried and will be careful. Compared to my run of 10/8, just a month ago, when every step hurt, this is miles better.

Last few mins left me hot, unfit, out of breath and feeling "beaten up" - a 20 minute steady run! OK it will take a few runs to get back into it :)

I do not feel like a runner again yet. I'll repeat on thurs and hope the Caddihoe is a nice event!

C • Steady Run? 7

At work. Then band (1st time in 6 weeks). Tired.

Felt significantly better today. Up & about and gardening and stuff.

Even ASDA.
Even started packing my house up. Move in 4 weeks?

Untick "ill" cos didnt' feel at all ill. Will try a jog in 2 days time.

After over 8 hrs sleep and no booze last nite, was looking fwd to driving up to Staffs.

Noticed as walking back from shops in the morning that i was feelign really rough. More ill than the previous 2 days.

More lemsips, went to bed 7pm & read for 4 hours, then slept like a drugged corpse.
My decision was made for me :(

Went to work. Stayed in and was so tired had to crash out before 10pm.

Thought I was on the mend; now not so sure.

Dismal jog in park, left hip hurt, snuffly nose, tho achilles felt reasonable i suppose.
very slow, felt like i'd never run before. Wont' be doing "Sprint" champs. May do middle on Sunday. Hmmm.

No idea what I was thinking, entering those races before i went to the Alps!

Fancy Caddihoe chase the w/e after, so i suppose this could be the precursor to that. Cold a pain.

C • Stop moping 8

Back to work . Lurg seems to be going. Starting to re-"worry" about achilles now. Hmm.

Isn't this supposed to be "fun"?

Back from 3 weeks in the Alps where i summitted 3 4000m peaks (Breithorn, 4164m, Ludwigshoe, 4341m, and , solo, Parrotspitze, 4436m) , but went down with a sore throat / cold sunday nite / monday monring and am off sick.

Brit champs w/e next w/e looking distinctly unlikely, tho will probably go anyway even if i jog/walk round. Sociable?

No idea how achilles is and have no intention of finding out til I'm back at work & feeling good again. It ached a few times on the steep climbs in big boots with pack on back in Alps. See 3 x albums on facebook.