Training Log Archive: Lori

Monument Mountain. Actual time 2 hours.

Twice around Steven's Lake in the snow!

Abs.

Running with SGB, Presto, and Kiwi before Thanksgiving dinner! Well sort of with...SGB, Presto, and Kiwi were doing out and back intervals while I was just running straight :-). I was definitely doing more coughing and mucus producing than I would ideally like for a run but other than that and feeling kind of tired, I was doing ok. My foot felt fine during the run, although it's definitely still bruised. Kiwi really likes geese. My impression was that the feeling wasn't mutual, though ;-).

Blue Hills Traverse with Presto. All in all, pretty terrible. I never really felt like I could actually run. I couldn't breath. I couldn't make my legs move. I was tripping over things. My hips were killing me. I was watching people pass me that normally I would have no problem keeping up with/ahead of. It was frustrating and bizarre. Then right before control 12 I was jumping over a log which apparently had pointy sticks sticking out of it and smashed my right foot into one of the pointy sticks. I stood there in agony for a few minutes and then decided that I could actually continue to move on it, so I kept going. (In retrospect, I'm not sure this was the most brilliant of moves.) I thought I should probably take a Gu at the water stops, but I wasn't feeling very good and didn't really feel hungry or like eating at all, so I didn't. I did force myself to eat a couple of fig newtons at the food stop. I hit the wall going to 18 and then it was just a death march/limp to the end. I got lost in the millions of pine trees around 21 and lost the group I'd been with on and off from control 8 on. I then proceeded to loose 30 minutes to them in the last 6 controls, while I wondered what I was doing out there. I finished the course in a haze of pain barely able to put any weight on my right foot and coughing more or less uncontrollably.

As it turns out, there was a good reason for all of this. Today (Monday) I have a sore throat, runny nose, and a sinus headache, which explains the achy hips and inability to move or breath out there. To top it off, I also have a swollen, multicolored foot. At least Presto had a good time :-).

C • Last controls of Traverse 4

Stretching out sore muscles and rolling on the foam roller.

Traverse - Splits