Training Log Archive: z-man

WPOC Day 2 - Knew in advance that this would be a much tougher course than yesterday with less trails and more hills so wanted to try to keep even pace for the entire course. Started out well, nailing first 4 bags, then got stuck in the dark green on the way to #5 which took me some time to get through. Then had bubble on #8 as I got pulled off my bearing by the briers and had to comb the area a bit. Took the trail to the right to #11 and a trail to the left to #12. Then ran into a fallen tree hidden by the ferns on the way down to #13 and smacked my already bruised knee in roughly the same area as at TT. Walked off the initial pain and continued to run. Had a big error at #15 as I overran the little stream into the next reentrant and had to fight back trough the green. Then wobbled around final controls. After finishing pulled up my right pant and was rewarded with a sight of a nice bump and a bruise on my achy knee. This seem all too familiar to the bruise I received at TT. The joint began to stiffen up while waking back to the camping site where I iced it profusely. Will know more about the damage in the next few days. Just bad luck with this knee thing I guess.

C • Brutal Terrain? 4

Keystone Park - Sunday - Blue - Splits

Event: WPOC Keystone Capers A-event
 

WPOC Day1 - Started late after a 6 hours drive. On the way to #1 glanced at the entire course and saw that a lot of it would be on trails. Wasn't feeling particularly fast, and knee started to nag after the first downhill, but I focused on having a clean race. Was doing ok, untill #12 where I didn't take the best route by going out to the road and stayed on a curvy trail instead where I took a spectacular fall by sliding head first and muddying my map. Then had another error on #14 where I fought with the dense veg that wasn't quite shown on the map. This drained me, and I started to fade and make small errors on each subsequent controls. Overall not a bad race, but could have been cleaner. Fell a total of 5 times on the course and stepped into a hole knee deep once. Really liked the course and having plenty of routes to chose from.

Blue - Deer Lake - Saturday - Splits

A quick jog in Verona park. Was on Advil for the past 3 days to calm the knee pain down. Had a weird encounter with a she-deer near by where I do my pull-ups. As I was finishing the loop around the park, it jumped out of nowhere by my left side and was flying towards me. I didn't know whether it wanted to attack or mate with me. But then about 2 meter from me it abruptly stopped and turned back. I latter saw it attacking other joggers. I can totally see it trying to chase a car next time and that would be the end of it.

Easy run on trails at Eagle Rock with a few incursions into the wood here and there. Was sad to find many gullies on my favored trail after last week's washouts. Planning to do some O-ing on Thursday if everything falls in place.

Usual set of exercises with free weights and thera bands. Plus some light stretching while watching netflix.

C • When I watch netflix while ... 3

Ran Vadim's trail loop at Holmdel park using map while Greg and Vadim ran it at their pace. A fairly good effort, at ~30min started to get pretty hot, and the last hill was a pretty steep one, but managed to finish the entire loop.

C • It's a Russian Hill. 14

C • Wouldn't be a Swiss hill! 1

Easy run with Greg at Verona park in the late afternoon.

Another run at Eagle Rock on the same trails as on Tuesday. Knee felt a bit better and I even run up some hills in the process. Hoping for a full recovery before the month is over.

C • Knee is getting better 1

Easy run at Eagle Rock in torrential rain which started the moment I hit the trail. Very cautious, especially when stepping into puddles and crossing raging streams. Knee felt a bit better then on Sunday which made me happy.

Usual exercises with free weights, thera band, push ups, and pull ups.

Another easy run. Legs felt light, but it wasn't pain free, so I kept it reasonable. Since the pain hasn't gotten worse after these two test runs, It seems that I am back in business, provided that it all goes uphill from here.

C • woo hoo 3

Easy run at Eagle Rock testing my knee.

Event: WCOC Brooksvale Park
 

Easy jogging at local's school track. So nice to have a good track nearby.

C • Finally found you! 3

Walking and attempting to jog a bit at Lewis Morris park while others were running the usual loop. Knee is better, but needs more time to heal up.

After some wrangling at work, bought the ticket. Will be arriving at Geneva on Friday in the afternoon, in time to make the long quali...

Really want to go out for a run today, but am dealing with a puffy R-knee which I banged against a rock after #7 at the middle. Will take a few extra days off till it calms down before returning to training.