Training Log Archive: maprunner

Walked around the PTOC sprint course at Sar-Ko-Par park. It's more fun to run a sprint; there are fewer challenges and decisions when one walks. Achilles felt fine most of the time, until I tweaked it again on the way to last control. Oh well.

Walked around at lunchtime. Felt good to be moving again. I tried to get my HR above 120, but I couldn't do it on flat pavement. Left Achilles was fine until 20 minutes, when it began to make it's pressence known. Not really painful, but not normal either. Would have cut the walk short, but I was on an out-and-back route. Iced it afterwards.

My Achilles tendon has been acting up since the weekend, so I'm taking a few days off from running, and trying the famous "I&I" method.

A nice day in Lawrence. Met Mike's mom and step-dad downtown for a picnic brunch as we watched the collegiate cycling championships. Also saw Mike's dad and Mean Gene, as we expected (they are both big cycling fans). Very exciting racing, and great to be so close to the action. Too bad the event moves to another city next year.

Then we headed out out to Clinton for a trail run. My legs were very tired from yesterday, and it was hot and humid. I walked to warm up, then jogged 9 minutes, walked 1 minute, for a total of 2 hours. I got tired at the end, but overall, this went better than I expected. (Although, as I'm sitting here 90 minutes later, every muscle in my legs is (are?) protesting.)