Training Log Archive: philm64

Steady 18 min jog in park - rehab jogs again. Leg better than last week, thankfully.

Wedding gig in south Wales. Amazing day, home 2:15 am. *Not* a "rest day" lol! Completely knackered!

Saw Liz for some hamstring treatment & assessment. Hmmm - prodding it gives little pain, so why the pain running again?

TCA bouldering with Liz & Nellie - pretty good, being careful of finger due to big wedding gig tomo. Fingers taped up.

Got up 4 orange's in a row, which isn't half bad, plus a 5 & a 5+ and a 6a problem in the space ship area.

Defeated by many other harder problems tho!

Jog post climbing, post hamstring treatment.

Still much too painful to run remotely normally.

bit of a setback here, not sure what happened - two O races on consecutive days last w/e I guess?

Hope it resolves soon - feels like I've gone back a month.

Hamstring pretty bl00dy sore.

Gym for rehab - 15 mins x-trainer, then upstairs for stretches & exercises, plsu 60 sit ups, then sauna & steam room & self-leg rubbing.

Reckon I've gone backwards 2 weeks there. I was lazy & did no rehab from Sunday til the urban last nite. Now paying a high price. Or maybe I can't run on roads yet. Whatever.

Def no serious running races til autumn - not feasible. Be nice to do some forest O & some slow running on terrain soon. Hamstring tear certainly wiped out 2015.

Not happy. Luckily I have a great gig & some climbing to look fwd to this w/e.

BOK Urban, Harbourside & Hotwells
1:4000 map, distance run unknown as forgot Garmin (tho my Garmin refuses to download Sunday's O event still, so .....)

R (injured) hamstring injury hurt immediately - bad start. Very confusing event "race" - just 100% away from anything I would have any aptitude for, but I'm glad I had this experience despite the constant pain in my injured leg, as the map was great, fascinating, the area is very local to me and it became a comedy number with people zigzagging around in confusion up & down steps. For me, this was a novelty evening of fun.

Several errors, no 1 I just was baffled (I can't get immediately into an area/ style of O like that!), no 2 I missed the quickest route so thought I was being clever going round (I wasn't), no 6 I had no idea how to get to, but didn't cheat - just took 3 times as long as others (6:21). I really can't comment on the results but I will say RCRO did do a very good time - ahead of vastly faster runners. Brains beat legs!

Collected 7 controls on my bike later, didn't finish til 9pm, which is all fine.

Hadn't done any rehab exercises since sunday so I blame myself, so will need to take a step back & be disciplined again. Thought I was nearly out of the woods, but I'm clearly not. Injuries... ruin seasons. Every year. In both my sports. Getting heartily sick of it all now. Hobbling by the end. How did I do 5.9mins/km last sunday at Silkwood?

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Indoor climbing - RedPoint - with Dan the neighbour. Good sesh, leading & toproping up to 6b. No probs at all :) felt S-T-R-O-N-G.

Leg not as sore as I'd feared. Looking good.....