Training Log Archive: Bash

Up and down The (very muddy) Grind at Blue Mountain plus a short run along the top. Beautiful day! This was a test of taping my ankle instead of using a brace. It seemed to work OK although I'm not sure if it will hold things together for 80 km on wet trails.

'Bent, Tarno, Milla and I paddled the Beaver River from Kimberley to Heathcote. We bought yummy sandwiches at the Kimberley General Store and stopped for an on-the-water picnic after an hour (time deducted). We paddled our whitewater canoe and lent the Tarnos our Kevlar canoe as a Father's Day gift.

It was a perfect day to paddle. The forested sections felt very Lord of the Rings. We saw lots of birds including quite a few Great Egrets.

Alas, the bakery in Heathcote was closed when we finished but luckily, our car shuttle took us back to the Kimberley General Store, where they had just baked fresh banana bread.

Last weekend’s ankle sprain is healing more slowly than hoped so I hiked with poles at Pretty River while ‘Bent and Tarno ran. I wore my favourite ankle brace although it’s designed more to prevent side-to-side movement, whereas this sprain was 45 degrees toward the front outside. I think the brace would help but it hurt after 2 hours so it’s not an option for running right now.

BazingaDog went with the boys but Koko wisely chose me since she knew she’d get more time to sniff and explore at my slower pace. She didn’t always agree with my route choices, especially when I repeated hills, so I got lots of Vizsla Attitude!

This seems to be a week for Tick Talk. In case I haven't posted this here yet, here is a tick growth chart, i.e. what does a tick look like depending on how long it's been attached to you. Useful and disgusting stuff.
https://tickencounter.org/tick_identification/tick...

I've seen a lot of tick pics on social media and even in my email inbox over the past week. Apparently, southern Ontario is hopping!

This link from Johns Hopkins is a good summary of the standard advice (although they're based in an area where ticks are more likely to be infected) but it has an especially good discussion of Lyme Disease symptoms. For example, we're told to watch for flu-like symptoms after a tick bite but this clarifies that we're looking for symptoms like fever, abrupt fatigue and aches - *not* runny nose and coughing.

Click on the link to the poster of different rashes. I knew that 25-30% of people with Lyme never have a rash, and I knew the rashes might not be a bullseye, but I didn't know that only 20% of Lyme-related rashes are bullseye-shaped.