Training Log Archive: ebone

Dancing at Nick and Deena's wedding. In a departure from my usual ways, I tried to keep the intensity down, so as not to drench my clothes with sweat. Mission accomplished! I danced for longer than 20 minutes, but much of it was sub-training intensity.

C • Dancing 3

Event: Mind Over Mountain
 

Score-O at Lord Hill Park. There were lots of nettles and thick areas, of course, but also some surprisingly runnable (or at least joggable) woods. The area is pretty nice, overall, and the map could benefit from a lot of work, starting with a lidar base map, preferably. I lost maybe 12-15 minutes, mostly in three big chunks. The first time was totally my fault for trying to go straight through an unmapped area (hey--it was white!) rather than taking the trail around. The second time was totally the result of the map being weak, mostly because a mapped trail wasn't really there, but also the contours were extremely approximate, as was the placement of the control feature. The third time was a combination of my stupidity and the map being weak.

I noticed myself being sort of sloppy, since the map was sloppy ("why read the map when it's wrong?"). This is bad practice, and I'll have to watch out for it. I had a nice time in the forest, though, and it made a good training run, the first half of a long session. I didn't try too hard to come back within the 60 minute time limit, and indeed I lost 1/3 of my points. I think the course may have been just barely cleanable with a (miracle) clean run, if I were in good shape.

My knee hurt a few times when I stumbled, but otherwise it was pretty good and didn't hurt at the end of the run.

C • approximate controls 2

I picked up six controls, including the farthest away 3, so I got a good run in. I also visited some controls at the end of my run that I didn't visit during the score-O, in order to lengthen the total running time today to over 2 hours.

My knees (mostly the left, but the right, too) and hamstrings felt fatigued and sort of doughy at the end of the run. I'll need to do some stengthening and stretching to get them into good terrain running shape. I did a few minutes of stretching before I drove home.

C • mapping 2

I bruised my left heel (on a rock?) during the orienteering.

I had planned to go for a 1/2 hour paddle and a 1/2 hour run, but I was tired and ended up doing neither. The good night's sleep on Friday night was nice, though.

Running while placing controls for BEAST race #2. My legs were profoundly tired, and my knee hurt some. It may no longer be as sensitive to aggravation, but it's not recovering either. I'll have to build up my training carefully.

Picked up controls after BEAST. My legs were even more tired than before, and I was really sleepy, too. I finished a bit after 2:30 a.m. I mostly walked with Maddy but jogged a bit, too. Time out was somewhat longer, but I'm not logging most of the downhills and other sub-aerobic parts.

Rode to the office via Ravenna Park and the Burke-Gilman Trail (for the first time from this house). My knee was still a bit (more) sore from the weekend (than it had been on Friday morning, before racing), and my legs felt tired, which makes a lot of sense, given that Sunday was the first day in many, many weeks (months?) that I had accrued five days in a row of running...including three races.

(Hilly) ride home via 65th St, with a short detour to pick up my stuff from the Norheim's place.