Training Log Archive: vmeyer

Not pretty, more breaks then ever before (about 5 minutes spread out), but I got it done.

With an eye towards going back to riding to work, I wanted to do a little bit on the bike today. Just around the neighborhood streets - didn't go down any of the big hills, though there are some little hills around the house. Wind was brutal, and go around and around was boring. I wanted to stop right away, but I toughed it out.

Mowed the lawn to complete the day.

That loud moan you heard around 6 PM was me - spring break week is over already! Back to work tomorrow. Wahhhh!!!

Sandy and I egged each other on to come and do this meet, and to do Red. I (we) did not let the rain deter me (us), but I (we) sure wanted to either do a shorter course, or stay home.

But, I am glad I came. I was hoping for 2 hours, and I got close, but only because I followed Sandy around the course after she caught me at #4. We had agreed that this was an option before going out.

I wanted a 15 minute head start, but it was only a 3 minute one. I lost a few seconds to Sandy at each of the first three controls, and then the rest of my head start evaporated going to #4 after missing what I thought was a trail I hoped to use to cross the swamp, and then thrashing through the worst of the rhodes to get to the road. Climbed this really long steep hill and went to the control location, but I couldn't find the flag. I was wondering what I did wrong when I heard Sandy and Sam talking, and then Sam finding the control on the ground next to some clump of trees.

With my head start gone, along with my motivation, I tagged along after Sandy and tried not to be too much of a dead weight. I was hurting up the hills, but able to catch back up on the flats or downhill.

It rained the entire time, and when it wasn't raining hard, then ducking under the rhodes got you good and wetter.

Had two really good hot dogs from Deaf O'Cafe after I was done and changed. And I got home a little slower then the trip up, but safe and sound in lightening skies.

Thanks, Sandy. I am very glad to have gotten a work out in, and to have you to lead me around. Well, at least for the legs that weren't one big trail option...I could have managed those myself. ;)

A trip around the lake after returning the inserts. Unfortunately, the doctor wanted my properly sized pair as well, so that the company can copy those. So, now I have nothing for a couple of weeks.

Used the heel lifts today. Left heel was very painful to start, buy then it calmed down.

Threw in a couple half miles under 10 min per mile, but mostly they were slower, and I also walked some chunks as well. Breathing very good, just feeling the effects of dragging my fat a*s around.

Beautiful running conditions in the mid 50s.

Too nice to avoid running for another day, so I put my newest shoe inserts in and ran down to the track with no real plan in mind. Wanted to stop as soon as I got to the track, but I walked a lap, and then ran a lap. I would have stopped after the 1st mile, but these two guys came onto the track, plopped themselves and their stuff in lanes 4-5, did some weenie stretches, got up to run a warm up lap, and left their dumbbells in lanes 5 & 6. Since, I had already run up and around them in lane 6, my usual lane, I knew they had seen me.

I run another lap, and the stuff is still on the track, so I come around again and I ask nicely for them to move their stuff from the lane I was using, and I gesture with my arm that there was all this other space that they could have left their stuff. The guy gets snippy and says that he said he would move it, and I shouldn't get upset. I said it was obvious that I was using lane 6 the whole time. He said that he didn't see me. I said bull shit, and then I ran the fastest lap of the day with the highest HR.

I still wanted to stop, but I figured that I had to do a few more laps since we had words, so I did, and it felt pretty good.

328 (.3 mile run from home)
407 (.27 walk)
242 (.27 run)
405
223
355
212*
345
214
351
218
356
228
358
228
358
448 (.3 walk home)

Inserts feel nice with a Spenco top instead of a leather slippery top, but they are cut too small in the front, so my toe hags over. So, back to the podiatrist tomorrow.

C • Inserts 2

Another good picture from the QOC A-meet. This time with Gail Ryan.

The O-Mobile made it's local A-meet debut at the end of March. It carried around a ton of equipment all weekend, and at the end, I got almost all of it back in...well, except for the clowns. They had to ride in their own cars.

Photo courtesy of Heidi Onkst.