Training Log Archive: hughmac4

Whew, suddenly summer, with brutal heat and humidity in the woods. Meant to go 15 hills, content with 10. Good to get out after all this time.

Feel much better today. Raw throat, but not terrible.

We've been having troubles with the awesome old spreading Japanese Maple in our front yard for a while. Rot, large limb loss. We've been thinking about what to replace it with. Now I'm conflicted:

A northern flicker (most likely, but maybe pileated woodpecker!!) nest just appeared

Event: West Point National Meet
 

80% today ... scratchy throat & swollen glands persist, but they're waning. Hooray. The comparison to 2 days ago is making me feel much better than I am, so I'm resisting doing anything stupid, like running out there in this glorious light rain, my favorite. :(

June is at the peak of the flu 'bad times' ... I just spent an hour cleaning her (well, Juliet cleaned her) and pretty much the entire 2nd floor from a fairly dramatic accident she had while sleeping, made worse by efforts to clean it up herself. Independence is wonderful, and to be cherished and rewarded, but oh my the appropriate cleaning ideas that come in to a fever-addled 7-year-old's mind.

I'm rewarding myself with a beer, my first in a week. Doesn't feel great on my throat yet, but it will. It will. It will.

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Still home sick. Geez. This may be the longest I've ever been out sick in over 30 years of working. I can work (and I have been), but I'm definitely still sick, and probably massively contagious, so hoping to contain it.

And June has it now, too. Stay away, quarantine!!

Minor (for now?) flu. Bleh. Walked to the library to return a book. Tried to enjoy the beautiful day ... intellectually I did, but ... bleh.

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Good to get out for the first time at lunch in a long time, even though I'm fighting some kind of cold / flu ... achy and lethargic. Ick! But a stunningly beautiful day.

Just back from vacation in Florida. It was really nice, except for strong winds the whole time.

Felt sluggish today. A bit humid, and a while since any training. R knee a bit weak. But mostly just post-vacation.

Good to get out. Everything is greening up.

Event: Naked Prussian 26.2/50mi Trail Race
 

Naked Prussian 50 miler (51.4 actual). A very nice day, if a bit muddy, but apparently my tapering is really paying off. 5th overall, 1st M30+ (although I only got the M40+ award :)).

My watch died with 0.7 miles to go. Guess I should have been about 9 minutes faster.

Enough excellent aid stations (about every 3.5 miles) that I ran with only a few gels in a tiny belt pouch and 2x aid station 8oz plastic cups, that's it. People thought I was crazy. Shows what they know. Although I did get some heartburn / burping / near upchucky after chugging 1/3 of a beer (a very good beer), and noshing on a kielbasa slice with 10.75 miles to go, right before the toughest hills on the course. It was worth it. And the french fries were so. damn. good.

Delicious sausage with really good sauerkraut on a good roll at the end.


my age group award: a weather cuckoo 'clock', with barometric rotation (who pops out) & temp

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