Training Log Archive: Traut

singe leg balance work with squats and calf raises. Hip flexibilities right before run. Some rolling and stretching at night. Hip flexor stretching in morning.

Was planning on a ride today to keep bloodflow up in my knee and reduce stress on the arthritis edema. Changed my mind to a short easy trail run to try to keep my form flowing with so many changes with the new swelling. Form felt good through my glutes and hips again, but right knee was very obvious and I could feel the tug of the edema in my right calf. Got done what I wanted, but its going to take more then blood flow to clear out the edema from the arthritis' reaction to this time of year. I have to be careful. I am not doing any trail races in September (I had to say no to Mark for his race on Sunday, Gail is racing though) but I am Orienteering tomorrow in Ohio. It is much easier to back off physically in an O-meet then a straight up race though. Doing well doesn't require the same physical expenditure since most are not faster then me but are much better navigators. Tomorrow should be interesting in the goat format. I have never done a mass start (except that Mid Atlantic relay last year) and have the opportunity to key off of other people. My navigation is poor, especially right now, in comparison just about everyone else. Oddly enough, whenever I end up kind of dueling with someone else who catches me from behind or such, I always up my game navigationally and often end up making choices that pull me ahead of them. In this race I can actually follow as part of that dual if I so choose to and make choices to try to make a jump on a skipped control. Will be interesting and I am looking forward to the shake up and a chance to use my running ability to my advantage a little more, even if that running ability is pretty severely limited right now.


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