Training Log Archive: Nadim

In Greenbelt Park with PGRC. Once again, it had been a long time since I've run with PGRC on a Saturday. This might have been the last before we move. I ran the familiar old Perimeter Trail. The downed trees were mostly cleared. Starting with Elliot and Katie (a new member) we joined-up with Peggy as she merged from another path. Though injured, I felt I could go faster and left them at the hill before the campground road, probably about 4:30 behind what I'd have otherwise run. For a little over the last mile I slowed again as my achilles tightened some. I iced it and took Ibuprofin afterward. My weight was 172.5 before running this morning--heavy.

From Quill Point Dr., Bowie, MD to the WB&A via Quetzal Dr., to Hillmeade Rd., to Quill Point Dr. Back home early enough to run before it got dark, Peggy and I did this loop together slowly. On the side of the trail a Perigan Falcon was eating another bird. I passed within 4 ft. of it and it didn't fly away--that's focus. My leg was okay but I could feel it still.

30 pushups, 45 situps.

In Forest Park, St. Louis, MO at night. From the History Museum, clockwise on the trail past the ponds, the Science Museum and the mounted police station, then somewhat straight as I could across the park past the amphitheatre to the History Museum. I was happy to be able to run. I eased into it, and though at first my achilles was tight, it loosened. It tightened again after about 25 minutes and I was careful finishing.

30 pushups, 45 situps, 20 leg lifts.

30 pushups.

From the Sailboat parking at Creve Coeur Park west of St. Louis, MO, I walked the flat paved trail counter-clockwise to the trail split at the soccer/polo field, then back. After the orienteering and cooling down yesterday, my achilles was really sore. I had shuffled through some houses for sale and packed some boxes before finally sitting long enough to ice it. That helped but so did sleeping and sitting still. On the walk the distance was just long enough to be needing to walk a little gingerly at the end. Of course towing my suitcase through airports didn't help any either. I'll have to come back to run all the way around the lake sometime.

QOC and the Terrapin Trail Club conspired to put on the College Park-O (score-O) at the University of Maryland. The nice 60F day and the new (1:6,000) map brought out a bunch of people. A brain-child of Benitis Vitenis and aided by John Torrance and Greg Lennon, the event turned-out to be lot's of fun. This was the first running I had done in a while. My achilles felt good the first 15 minutes and started tightening-up the next. After running a couple controls with John Torrance and a few others, I turned-off on my route, slowed and tightened-up a lot at about 29 minutes into the race. I should have stopped there but it was a competition and a fun one. The last half hour I hobbled about getting worse each step. Trying to compensate for my achilles on my right foot, my left started hurting some too. Oddly my left lower calf/upper achilles had felt a little funny before starting making me think the injury I'm going through is a kind of age-related settling of the type I went through in my late 30's with my knees. My knees are fairly fine now. There were 48 controls. I got 39 and was 2:08 over which incurred a 3 control penalty. I made minimal errors. If I hadn't pulled-up lame, I think I could have gotten them all in the hour. My average distance between controls was about 204m and the average time per control was 1:35. My order was: 11, 10, 12, 13, 37, 35, 34, 36, 38, 41, 40, 39, 48, 16, 47, 46, 45, 42, 43, 44, 15, 14, 33, 32, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 17, 19, 20, 18, 7.