Training Log Archive: philm64

Back still much too sore.

Walk 20 mins, & 2 x 15 mins with rucsac on. (last one heavy - ASDA)

Run in evening (30 degrees in sun), felt OK, left calf & right Achilles wooden like last nite, but generally OK apart from that. Felt frisky & fit & strong. Just an issue as back clearly "out" so affecting legs & Achilles. Hmmm.

Osteo in morning so probably rest day tomorrow after that. Hope she can help with the back pain........ :(

Back still FAR too sore this morning. losing will to live.

went for a 2hr 15min walk in countryside south of Bristol with small pack on back - helped a lot - vastly less painful that sitting down.

watched tennis on TV then ventured out for a jog. as noticed it wasn't hurting when quickly jogged earlier.

not too bad, but calf & Achilles grumbly - no rehab whatsoever all week, as can't stretch - need to work on that very quickly now.

Generally, pathetic. What a wreck of a week. will jog tomorrow, too, post Murray. (the other one) (the GOOD one).

Back no better ; in fact, is it worse today? Doesn't feel at all good.

Managaed to load car, get petrol, drive to LIz's to pick her up. My face said it all. Driving was very uncomfortable & the prospect of 3-5 hours in a car today....

W/e canned :(

Osteopath booked for Monday.


Gutted. Gorgeous weather too. No doubt we'll find a w/e to re-schedule N Wales & it will piss down the whole time & we won't go then, either.

My back is on the mend. Still on painkillers, and lay in sun later, which really seemed to help :)

Shame to miss TACH Burrington race tonight - would have had to blag an entry tho.

Also shame missed BOK event last nite - won by Owain Jones in fast time, the boy can run a bit!

Think we'll risk North wales tomorrow after all. Forecast good.

Back pain very much there, and doing anything is wrought with pain.
it's moved to the left side; I suppose my biggest worry is - have i got an actual injury in it, or is it just fallout from the double spasm/seizure's I suffered yesterday morning after 24 hours of non stop pain?

ticking "ill" too as this has made me ill - i'd be off work if I had a job and I am wiped out all the time thru the pain.

all cos I didn't sleep on a hard eough surface on sunday night. week ruined & next w/e probably canned (walking in north wales with Liz - who cannot believe that , after waiting for me to have a free w/e in about 6 weeks, I am suddenly disabled).

Just measured with a ruler (! old school) the 1st 5 controls on the Brown course on Sunday - I made it 1.99 kilometres, say 2km. (1.988km)

I was there in 9:08 so I make that 4:35 per km. That's orienteering, not running.

So that's a record for me, by miles, I think.

For routegadget, see here: http://www.devonoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#110&...

Is there a spin-off sport with this sort of race/ course / terrain out there, that I can do more of, please? I like navigation & I like non-mass starts...

:-)

C • fast 1

Back - sore all day yesterday finally gave up the ghost and seized up 100% this morning.

Completely incapacitated, lying down all day flat out & on max painkillers. Luckily Liz is off work so came round & did shopping, made sandwiches etc.

There you go. that's the end of my 6 races in 6 days quest.

Tamar Triple day 3 - my 2nd day, Mt Edgcumbe, hot day, great views of Plymouth, Clive running M21 (why?), middle distance race, 4.6km/ 255m (steep!)

** WOKE UP IN PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK AS AIRBED Wasn't PROPERLY INFLATED - T\HIS IS NO GOOD PHILIP **

Another trying journey there. sigh.

Hot - very fast start on grass (though splits would show later than Megan Carter-Davies was a lot quicker - how? I was legging it like mad)

no 4 - huge problem here - missed it, overshot, back in off fence corner, STILL no flag - WTF? turned round in despair - another run ruined? - and there it was "tucked away" Not best pleased. That meant I did not win today's course. 90 seconds lost..... at least.

small misses later eg. no 10 as I had lost my sense of direction on an easy leg & could not get head around terrain in circle, for about 30 seconds.

From there on in, running as hard as I could considering I was knackered in the heat & on the steep hills by now, and some good legs, some a bit shoddy. Very fast open land later saw me push myself hard & win these legs in the main - but it hurt. It has to!

Dead at finish - can I race 6 days in a row? (answer: no, but not cos of this race)

Pleased to be SW Middle M50 champ, but victory somewhat hollowed by a) Clive running m21 (where he was stuffed out of sight), b) Pete Ward reasserting himself 90 seconds quicker than me, and I was going to say c) Lucy Butt appeared to finish in a quicker time but results reveal she was actually 30 seconds slower, so I narrowly take her out 2 days in a row. She clearly enjoys her life more than I do, though, which is more important. Megan CD (great to see her back running proper fast!!!) would easily have had me had she not made a couple of too-big errors on her run - one being the route choice 11-12 - a no brainer to a runner like me - go down to huge track/ road, & leg it "hell for leather" to the open ground then stagger up to control. This worked! :-)

back very sore on (deeply trying) drive home (traffic good; weather hot; very tired; needed a nap)

Garmin: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1191317...

Routegadget: http://www.devonoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#111&...

RESULT - M50
http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...

M45: (Pete Ward's revenge) http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...

W20 (Megan)
http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...

W21 (Lucy Butt) http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...