Training Log Archive: schnitzer

All good today, loose and comfortable.

Joensuu Jukola 2nd Leg (931/1521)

A comedy miss on number 1, completely lost. Got lucky after eventually deciding to go N back to the road. Lost many minutes but could have been worse. Otherwise a normal, big-sized miss on 16 and a smaller one on 23. Probs 10-15mins total, hard to say.

Physically ok, I knew I was going to be going out for a cruise anyway. A couple of easy-steady longer runs not enough to be attacking an elite classic distance course. I haven't actually done anything consistently intensive for nearly a month and that wasn't even through terrain.

As expected my left bum/leg problem wasn't great but certainly not a show stopper. I did feel some pain/awkwardness but after a while it went away. No problems since either walking etc - in contrast to my test on Wednesday it felt almost better in fact. Weird.

My biggest problem was my contact lenses, in a very similar way to 10mila last year (but not quite as severe as back then) my vision was on and off quite blurry. This really didn't help to read and understand the detail/contours, especially at number 1.

Event: Jukola 2017
 

Strength, sets of 13.

Coordination, sets of 40.

Classic hill, easy.

A test to see what's going on. Chose hills because over the last couple of months since I first did some damage that sort of session has seemed to aggravate it the least.

Really easy on the warm-up to try and understand exactly how bad an idea it was to be running at all. After that initial test passed I didn't want to take it too easy on the hills, had to find out how bad it really was to make a final decision on the Jukola.

After the first few reps I could tell it wasn't 100% but only on the ups. As soon as the feeling started to resemble pain I stopped and walked back home. After a few minutes of walking it started to feel pretty normal again, like it was before running.

8 reps.

Some light stretching and massage.

Seems like I will be able to run on Sat/Sun but I think it's probably safer to try and get the team switched around so I can avoid a longer leg.

Although I am moving around very normally the area is definitely more tender after running and I did feel some pain when I leant over to put on a duvet cover just now. Fortunately there won't be too many of those to do on my Jukola leg.

I guess I am quite lucky in a way, to receive two warning shots. Yes the second one certainly came a lot closer over the bow but 3 days off and I am running again. I may well pay heed this time around.

Core coordination routine, sets of 40.

Core strength routine, sets of 10.