Training Log Archive: markg

Another day of downhill skiing at at Sunshine. Weather was better today with only intermittent cloud on the higher slopes cutting visibility and detracting from the fun. Managed to get back in to the swing of things today and felt like I could take on anything. Did a couple of runs that I hadn't done before or only once and never felt out of my depth. Shin ached a bit as the day progressed.

Short, easy recovery run followed by stretching. Also wanted to see what my right shin would do. It didn't hurt initially but after 10min could feel the ache a little and it remained that way until the end. After stopping it was more sore than before the run but only 1/2 hr later it is of similar soreness to before the run.

Pulled up with a sore shin after last night's orienteering, similar to pain about 4 wks ago prior to resting up. Pain in right tibia just below the tubercle. Hurts if I stand high on the ball of my foot, going up stairs, crouching and if I push myself backwards while sitting on my wheeled chair at work. Quad stretch seems to relieve pain temporarily. Worried it might be a mild stress fracture but could be related to patellar tendon?

FWOC Wed night event starting in Kensington and running up around SAIT. Felt okay, struggled a bit up the hills and not feeling quick in the snow (up to 10cm). I could feel a stitch developing about 2/3 of the way round so backed off for a minute. I was surprised to find afterwards that my max HR for the race was only 94% (184). Given how hard I felt I was pushing in places, I thought it would have been higher. Looking at the HR graph, it seems that my HR dropped while running through the snow, which seems backwards, but maybe I wasn't pushing myself as hard as I thought there.

Navigationally I was alright with a few little issues. I think I started to run into a small out-of-bounds area to 3, so doubled back and went around (-10s), I misread my road crossing point on the way to 5, got too high and couldn't see the little pin-flag for the tree it was one (-40s), and I missed the optimal route choices on 14 and 16 (-30s). Estimated running distance 5.3km (4:56/km).

To the event, warm up/down, and then to the pub after.

So yesterday at lunch I'm running in the sun, I'm warm, nearly all the snow has melted, this morning, there's 10–15cm of snow everywhere … and it's still snowing … stupid Calgary.

12 min warm up; 5 min warm down.

3 × 1 min with 1 min floats. Short and sweet because I played foosball for 20 min after the warm up :) Intervals at level 13 on the exercise bike.

Steady run from home down to Market Mall, up past UoC and home. A fair part was through last night's snow, which fortunately wasn't too deep, but it slowed me down. Was concentrating hard on running form to try and fix hammy problem but got some twitch near the end.

Easy recovery run along Elbow and Bow rivers. It was warm again today — it's hard to describe how happy that makes me! Feeling a bit a fatigued from skiing but knees were good which is unusual the day after skiing; didn't have twitchy hammy or aching shins.