Training Log Archive: PG

Felt perhaps a little worse. Put in another couple hours of very slight help at the start, then one training session (carrying a trash bag full of clothes back to the finish), intensity level 0.5. Then eventually off to the airport and home, morale once again salvaged by good company (George and Lyn, especially).

Got back without incident, then out to dinner with another old friend, it was his birthday, I really wasn't looking forward to it but it turned out to be fun, lots of good conversation, except I ate way too much....

Really have to start saying No, just to limit the damage. Already cruising past 140....

C • Then eventually off to the air... 2

Felt worse, despite lots of icing and some vitamin I.

Hanging around an O' meet when you're not going out pretty much sucks. Best thing is to offer to help out, so I spent a couple hours helping very slightly at the start.

Then spent an hour or so later in the day making rogaine plans for Memorial Day, knowing all the time that there was a reasonable chance that I've already blown off that possibility.

Morale was remarkably good considering how pissed off I could have been, and maybe should have been. Must have been the good company and goodfriends.

C • Hey, Trail-O Buddy 8

Event: BOK/US Team Umstead 007
 

Off to North Carolina for the BOK/Team meet. Got lucky with the plane trip as there was miserable weather up here but everything was on time.

Warm-up for the sprint. I had given a little thought to skipping this, since the race I most cared about was Saturday's middle (and WRE), but the legs felt relatively good....

for all of maybe 15 seconds. At which point I tripped, and while catching myself on my right foot, my left leg shot back and up and it felt like someone was trying to dismember me, sharp pain at the top of the hamstring. And I knew absolutely immediately that that was the end of that run, or any run for a while. So I sat there for a couple of minutes and then walked very slowly back to the parking area.

Good news -- I could still walk.

Bad news -- any sudden movement of any kind was not a good idea.

So, now what? My guess is no orienteering for at least a month or two. I would think I should try to do the following over the next several weeks:

-- Try to get some sort of evaluation as to what sort of damage I've done, and maybe a treatment plan. And then stick to it.

-- Try to figure out some form of exercise that I can do to at least keep a tiny bit of fitness (at this age, a couple months off means it will take another 2-3 months of miserable runs to get any semblence of fitness back).

-- Try not to put too much weight on, though that is already going in a bad direction.

-- Try to keep positive.

None of the above will be easy.

C • treatment plan 7

Same as yesterday. Nice day, warmer, snow was softer and more slippery.

Left work early to go to the last UMass home game. A lot of fun.

Just a short run on the ridge. An inch or two of fresh snow, I was slipping and sliding a bit but at least not going down. Still feeling pretty feeble.