Training Log Archive: AliC

A lovely ride to Brill!

Took some bundling up, not too warm out. Very November-ish day, lots of yellow leaved/naked trees, crisp air. And so much wind on the way back! Had to switch into lower gears for going down hill...

Garsington-Wheatley-Horton-Waterperry-Worminghall-Oakley-Brill-Musgrove Hill-Boarstall-Honeymurge-Stanton St. John.

Gmaps says 28.6, plus a few wrong turns ~29mi.

Nice little warm up around the first (~3k) loop with Clare, felt totally fine, tight left calf at the end of it.

And got a bit into the race with no pain... then pain behind left knee. Bah! Sooooo annoyed. Contemplated whether to keep running or not for 200m, but I really don't want to stayed injured for any longer. Not sure what's up, but I don't like it.

Will I be able to race in the RAF match next week? If not, I'm not actually going to have a cross-country season...

C • My turn to say... 4

In gym. Behind knee kinda tender while cycling, not pain exactly though...

Felt better after first 5 minutes. Was getting into it a bit...

Also, in gym, clearly.

In gym, 2 x 30 inclined situps, then the quad and hamstring machines- maybe these are weak which are causing knee wierdness?

Just around North Oxford. Behind-knee-pain held off, but things in left leg just feel out of whack- tight calf/hamstring. A bit nervous to stretch, as last time that made things worse... Real nervous about cuppers tomorrow, hope it's ok that I run. If I get any sharp pains, I'll stop though.

Bored.

But wierd behind knee pain didn't hurt and at least I got a workout in!

Hah! Was so bored by the cross-trainer, I thought the erg might be fun...

Well, it was slightly- hadn't been on one of the new concept II's with the power graph on the bottom. That was kind of neat.

Right ankle kind of crunched if I came all the way up to the catch properly. Oh, and to first approximation, I have no arm strength, guess that's what I get for having become a runner...

C • Big arms 2

Bit of a cycle, because my arms couldn't row... =)

Feeling ok 10 min in, then decided to stretch, then afterwards had the sharpish behind knee pain again, so just jogged back home...

Annoyed. I would like to train, please.

C • sucks 4

Boo.

I thought all my wierd aches and pains were disappearing- figured if I could go for 7 hours at the OMM, then I was in the clear. Now something behind my knee is really twinge-y. Actually, started hurting yesterday in the race, but of course just ignored it. Argh. Would really like to get a good session in tomorrow, but if I can feel it when I start to warm up, will be an immediate stop. Probably some tendon/ligaments or something that are upset...

Circuits! Some new ones today.