Training Log Archive: miclaraia

Finally hit 26 miles this week, exciting stuff happening over here in Connecticut.

Becky put together a course to work a combination of skills. It started out with a line-o and then transitioned into a control-pick and finishing up with a few long legs. I had asked her to shadow me so I could get some quality feedback on the things I was doing right and wrong.

It took me a while to get into the line o at the beginning. For the first few minutes I was only ruggedly following the line, skipping over some of the more precise details like going left of this rock and right of that one. Towards the end, as I got focused and more in touch with the map, I got more precise in following the line. Becky suggested I do something like that every time I go out to force myself to zone into the map.

I had to cut the exercise short because my leg wasn't feeling too great. Also Becky noticed an imbalance in my gait, but only whenever I switched back to easy running. The difference disappeared going up hills or when I had to work hard, but then when I loosened up it came back. I presume it's just how my body adapted to my injury over the course of a few months. I'll have to keep an eye on it and try to retrain my legs to run more evenly.

This has been a really hard week of training, my body is completely drained and I was having trouble going up and down the stairs throughout the day. I think I'll take a day off tomorrow.

Phase 5 again. There was a bunch of noise from a loudspeaker coming from a loudspeaker somewhere. I got curious and deviated from my usual path to figure out what was going on. Followed the source of the sound for a while and ended up at the local middle school at the weekend kiddie football/cheerleading event.

In other news, it's started getting really hot and humid again. Not too happy about that.