Training Log Archive: cporter

Core Workout Class - standard core class with mostly crunches, planks, etc. Primary focus was on abs today which I was thankful for. Only really had trouble with the reverse crunches we did right at the end of class because we were supposed to keep a medicine ball between our knees, lay on our back and pull our legs into our chest with our lower abs. My lower abs are definitely not as strong as my upper abs to begin with and the combination of that and trying to squeeze a 6 lb medicine ball while my inner thighs are still sore from the marathon (but thankfully the only muscle that really is sore) was a bit too much to handle.

Ended with Susan's nice long stretching session too which was much appreciated.

Arrived a little early for my core class so I jumped on the eliptical machine for a nice easy warm-up (about 10 min) then jumped back on after class to just give my muscles an easy, impact-free working for another 30 min. My pace was pretty easy, had a couple twinges of knee pain when I sped up a bit too much, but otherwise I felt fine.

So people will probably hate me, but I woke up this morning virtually pain-free from the marathon. I was a little nervous last night because as the hours after the marathon progressed my knees were getting more and more stiff and sensitive to moving in any direction other than straight back (i.e trying to roll out of bed was painful whereas sitting up and then standing up was only difficult because of tightness) so I wasn't sure how today would go. But morning came and I rolled out of bed, stood up and walked right down stairs before it hit me that doing so shouldn't have been so easy. We'll see if 48 hour rule applys tomorrow, but for now I'm feeling good - as is evidenced by the fact that I went to the gym today without a problem.

Oh and one more thing while I'm thinking of it...during the marathon I had someone (a male) call out my name while I was running through Georgetown. I never saw who it was so I have no idea who it could have been. None of my non-orienteering friends were planning to spectate (that I know of) also, it could have been a co-worker (I took today off, so I haven't spoken to anyone at work yet), but thought I would throw the question out there in case it was an orienteer (maybe someone from QOC that didn't go to the NEOC A-meet?)