Training Log Archive: kweinmann

Orienteering meet today! The weather was a little gross - overcast and just kind of wet feeling, but I didn't mind it too much. I do have to say that by the time I finished my course it looked like it had been pouring even though it didn't rain while I was out - that's how wet the woods were. Anyway, on to the actual course. I think that the best way to describe this race was that I was just a little 'off.' It started off with taking a terrible route choice to the first control that resulted in me having to wade through a stream that I could have ran over on the road, and it didn't exactly improve from there. It wasn't like I made any big mistakes, but there were very few, if any controls, that I did completely cleanly. It also didn't help that spring is definitely here, and that brings with it lots of plants that both obscure my view of the ground, and try to prevent my feet from moving forward when I'm running. Most of the off-trail legs - and there were several - I was walking pretty much the whole time, purely because I could not run with out running my face into a branch or getting caught in some kind of pokey bush after about 2 steps. I do think I got kind of lucky on controls 9 and 10 because I was not paying very much attention to my map but I still managed to find them without much of a problem. Overall, I'm glad I went, but I'm definitely not in a good orienteering mode right now - there's definitely a lot of work to be done.

On a side note, my left quad is still really bothering me. I could feel it pretty much any time I was running during the course, especially when I was on trails or roads because I was running faster. I still don't know what it is, but maybe i'll take tomorrow off to see if that helps. I was hoping that taking yesterday off would, but apparently that didn't happen.

Haven't really been doing long runs so I guess this counts as my long run for the week since it was pretty far. The last mile or so was definitely tough but I survived and made it home. I also survived my first week of work and a full class load and actually came out to the weekend with minimal homework. I'm hoping to be able to continue to keep up with my homework during the week, but we'll see once my classes start getting harder. It felt like a very productive week though - the most productive week I've had in a very long time, to be completely honest.

I think I need to leave work a little earlier on Tuesday and Thursday because both days I had to speedwalk to campus to get to class on time. This was a speed strength session because we were trying to be done in time to meet Kat at Chipotle. Exercises were:
Incline press
Calf raises/squats
Rows
Curl to overhead press
Single leg deadlifts

Leg isn't getting better, but it doesn't seem to be getting much worse either. I think I need to start bringing a snack for between classes because my eating schedule is so messed up. Ate lunch around 12:30 and then ate a granola bar before running at maybe 7 or 7:30 but that was way too long to go without eating. I was okay during the run but as soon as I stopped I really felt the lack of nourishment.

Bench Press
Calf raises/squats
Rows
Curl to Overhead Press
Tricep Extension
Deadlifts

Ok so clearly running on my hurt leg has not been great - it hurt a good amount walking on it today. It felt better the more I walked, but the pain was never completely gone. I decided I wanted to go running anyway so I took some ibuprofin beforehand, partly because I don't like running in pain, but mainly because I didn't want to risk altering my stride to avoid the pain. I think this worked, the pain was there but minimal, and I actually felt good running today - I ran a bit faster than I normally do. Honestly I was really surprised I had the energy to run after such a long day (7+ hours of classes), but it felt good to get out after a really, really, really long 2 1/2 hours of thermo.