Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Half Wit Half Marathon. Not enough sleep, ate too late, got their late and almost missed the start, added up to a relatively poor showing. 30th of about 500*.

Looks like Zhyk kicked my butt on this one...

I ate badly and tasted my morning's oatmeal & granola throughout the run. At about 8 miles, the water I drank with 1 GU was the final blow & just overloaded my stomach and it hurt the rest of the way - probably was drinking about right, but my stomach was too full to start and couldn't process it. I really faded, my HR dropping by 20bpm, and me feeling dizzyish. Dropped from 19th at 1/2-way to 30th at end. I should've been able to push longer than that (not sure if I'd have made it all the way to 13 w/o fading w/a happy stomach, but I think so...)

Forced myself to lose some the excess water after the finish and my stomach felt better after than point. Took 2 excedrin in case the exhaustion and mild-heat were going to take out my head, and downed about 3 sodas slowly over the next 2 hours (as my stomach could take it) and my head, while threatening for a bit, was fine.

My R-knee was fine for most of the run (even the pounding paved, rocky and/or scrambling downhills.) Felt a little bit off (but not really sore) from about 50-80% of the way. Fine after until evening (now) where it's starting to hurt again. Could certainly be worse... (We'll see tomorrow :)

Nice course, about 80% single track (lots of it rocky), 10% double-track/road, and 10% no-track (streamers through the forest...) An amazing # of these folks could hammer down rocky trails.

Not too hot - about 75-85, shady most the way, DP 65.

(*yes, 500 in the rocky, hilly, 1/2 marathon! - we could probably get 100+ to the VF marathon if we marketed it well (and marked the trail...))

C • RRC Notes 3

Not nearly enough warmup as I was quite late. No cooldown as I felt terrible...

R-knee okay

Somewhat warm, >70 deg DP day, running trails near Vadim's house. Pretty trails, but I didn't like the chiggers. I think I washed them all off my & Angelica's ankles, so we only got a brief scare.

2x Hip/Ankle work. esp. R-side. R-knee pretty sore on today's run (almost bailed, but it got better.) Stretching a bunch (sitting why right foot out and behind me w/left leg forward, just while doing other stuff) seemed to help a bit.

1-km hard surge on boardwalk early (3:45) and 1-km medium surge (forgot to keep pushing hard) on sand on way back. Knee wasn't great, but my body needed to do a hard-push run...

Some more hip & ankle work this morning after short run. Knee hurt during run, but nothing sharp - just slow build up of soreness...

Hot so HR climbed up despite maintaining only a modest pace... L-IT a little tweaked early (while R-knee totally fine) then after 5-10 minutes settled into normal L-knee find and R-knee w/ache building up.

C • Be very careful ... 2

Same loop as the morning. Hotter (97). Knee basically sore the whole time. Did stretch & IT DT later, which helped.

Early PM set

R-Knee quite sore today - inside front edge bones felt quite pinched on running steps. Run cut short, and did one full AM set and 1 PM R-only set of hip/ankle work.

Something weak on trails, even tried to do some of the planned intervals but that hurt even worse. Tomorrow better?

R-IT pretty sore today (not too bad during run but before/after) I like the IT sore better than the general-knee sore, as that's something I know how to attack. I definitely prefer the nothing sore though...