Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Troll Cup - Blue Day 2, Chase start. The race started out so well - I spiked the first three controls and caught Greg Balter and Sergei, who had started ahead of me in the Chase. Almost immediately after catching them, i sprained my ankle (ligaments popping and all) on the run downhill out of the 3rd control. I managed to stay with Sergei and ahead of Greg for a few more controls, but my ankle was swelling up continuously, reducing me to walking the last five controls or so and finishing almost a minute behind Greg. This was just not meant to be my week-end. I will probably take this week off from training as I am having trouble walking at the moment.

Pictures of my large ankle can be found (thanks to Biggins) here: www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/images/ankle.jpg and here:
www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/images/boris_wounded...

Blue - Splits

Troll Cup - Day 1 Blue. An awful race with over 17 minutes of mistakes, as well as a full-speed run-in with barbed wire that took out chunks of my legs, a slip on a log that ended up with me smashing into the ground with my back, and a battle with a snake trying to crawl up my arm! I think just finishing was a victory today.

Blue - Splits

Biking with Misha (yes, folks, he is alive and cooking dinner for me right now in the kitchen - awwwww, just like the old times!) to Prospect Park to meet up with Sergei

"Warm-up" loop around Prospect Park with Sergei. Felt pretty sore, knees hurting a bit too.

Hill intervals with Sergei - it was getting dark and we were both pretty sore, so we just did three, the first one a bit too fast.
1:10
1:18
1:18

Running between intervals and cooling down.