Training Log Archive: Sandy

West Point Day 2 - Green. A little cleaner than Saturday. Went way around to get down the hill from #7; never saw the trail that apparently was visible from the control and the steepness scared me.

Event: West Point A-Meet
 

Green course. A few small errors - more than I would have liked given my pace - but nothing disastrous. Only running I managed was on the trail from 6 to 7 and then at the very end.

TNT - nice easy jog (in deference to WP) on my own at Tyler. Very pleasant.

Met up with Eric on my way back to the cars and we walked another big loop in Tyler

I & I and more consistent stretching seem to be working. Good knee is almost back to good; bad knee is almost back to it's normal state.

The I&I (ice and ibuprofen) approach seems to be better than my strategy of denial. We'll how it works in the long term.

C • I&I 1

TNT
Insisted that everyone else go on ahead without me so that I didn't feel pressured to keep up. I walked the short road section and then jogged very slowly down the hill to the drive. Did 3 miles on the drive at a very comfortable, not pushing at all pace, which turned out to be 10:30. Stretched a bit while waiting for everyone else and then walked back up the hill and home. (Time includes all the walking and stretching - for me, it's part of the workout.)

Iced both knees and took ibuprofen after getting home. Let others to the cooking!

Walk on the beach. Jogged a few minutes, but not much at all.

Event: HVO A-Meet
 

A barefoot walk on the beach. Jogged a little on the way back; even a few minutes is hard work in sand.

Knees very bad. Both of them, in different ways. Will need to rethink my strategy of denial.

C • What? 3

TNT - Hung streamers for Clem. Jogged a bit here and there but walked a lot and had to stop and hang a streamer every few minutes in any case.

TNT - managed 5 miles on the drive, some pretty slow ones, but there were 5 of them, for the first time in what feels like months and may very well be months. Plus the down and up.

TNT at Tyler with Dasha while Tom and Clem ran on their own. Last 10 minutes were walking and some stretching. But I managed to not walk on any of the hills during the run - granted we left out many of the big ones, but still.

TNT - four miles. Dasha and Sandy and Bob did 5 but I took Gail's advice and didn't push it. I think it was a wise decision.

Brown course at Four Mile Circle - local DVOA event. Kathy spelled me at epunch so I could get out. Feeling reasonably good, but decided not to push my luck so did Brown. Could have been a bit cleaner but given how fuzzy my brain still feels, was satisfied with the effort. Felt decent physically, especially on the second half of the course. Perhaps losing the 5 lbs offset any effects of being sick!

Knee felt about the same as usual so that was definitely good news.

C • Thanks 1

Was browsing around, catching up on sites I haven't looked at in a while and curiously ended up reading all about RAAM last summer. Hard to believe how that all worked out...

Still can't keep any food in my system...

C • That's awful 3

TNT - tried to run with Dasha and Sandy but various ailments dictated otherwise. This was the only running I managed - about a mile and a half.

Walked around down on the drive waiting for the rest of the gang after it became clear I wasn't going to do any more running.

Major knee pain later in the evening. Not sure what I did, but couldn't straighten the leg nor put any weight on it without excruciating pain. It subsided after a few hours.

C • that doesn't sound good!!! I h... 5

Mostly stretching, a little strength stuff. For some reason the recent classes haven't been what I want and they're also bothering my knee. Only a couple classes left in the semester - not sure if I'll go.

All went well; glad it's over. Definitely some places where things could have spiralled out of control; luckily they didn't.

C • Control 5