Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Easy loop, late in the afternoon. No motivated, and my R-foot was pretty sore from walking around on a lot of grass in the dark, which it's not ready for (many pinches last night.)

AJ did, however, go trick or treating at every house in Green Hills - about 150 or so... And was the sole survivor of 4 friends who set out of this quest.

5k with AJ, who did great to finish his first 5k not only without ever stopping to walk, but at a decent pace too. He passed a lot of people who'd started to hard and had to walk.

2nd run about an hour later. Tried to run on grass as foot was getting better. It was a bit sore at times, tender on impacts but certain relaxed footstrikes were working. Stretching the tendon on the outside of the ankle seems to help.

Home from Bear Rock Cafe

If ever there is doubt on the future of technology, just look at your children. Are we really heading toward living in the cloud, where the software on the PC becomes less and less important? Today, Oriana handed me a mini-DVD while walking to her computer, and said "can you show me where to find this on the Internet?" To her, the computer is the Internet. Almost everything she does is in a browser window...

On Betzwood trail with Angelica, Jackie, Tom & ..., then a little more running back to meet Angelica for the end of her run.

C • Betzwood 3

Easy Chesterbrook loop with Angelica

To the 5-mile loop, clockwise, and back, via the newly openned Rt. 252 bridge. My R foot was pretty happy I was on pavement most the time as any relaxed-foot impacts onto grass or other surfaces that pushed the outer foot up hard really pinched hard at the top of the foot.

I did move faster and farther than yesterday (thanks to running w/Angelica) so hopefully that's a good sign for the foot.

R-ham/glute a bit better

L-hamstring burning again more today. Need to stop with the sitting, as it's more sore this evening than at any time during the US Champs weekend. Kneeling on a pillow, as I'm doing now, is getting a little easier, as my shins aren't quite as sore from Saturday's many falls. (Sunday I had gaiters on, which limited damage.)

Late PM
Did 100x each time ankle twist/stretches on balance, for foot, and
50R + 20L clock squats - for hip (preventative, no issues), and
Some DT on the L-hamstring, which felt pretty good after, although kneeling while I type this it's burning again a bit. Maybe I'll go magic tape it as I go to sleep.

Ran over the newly openned Rt. 252 bridge within a few hours of openning (was closed earlier this morning)

Unfortunately, I also rediscovered two potential 'injuries' that I now recall were affecting me later in the run yesterday.

Of least concern is the R (not normal L) upper hamstring and glute, which has the feeling of normal hard-work muscle soreness, but it is rather concentrated (no other muscles nearly as sore.)

Of most concern is the R-foot, which 50 minutes into yesterday's run screamed out in lots of points of sharp pain as the R-outside twisted upward for the zillionth time. After that point, holding arch tight, and landing on my forefoot when the terrain looked like it might push up the R-outside of hte foot worked fine, but I had to be vigilant in that or points of pain would tweak on impact. Landing on the heel and rolling forward on the foot as usual was generally not good, esp. w/o the arch held tight.

I was quite surprised to be hit by this pain on the 3rd running step today, as it hadn't hurt at all since late in yesterday's run. Ended up staying on pavement the whole time, and holding the arch hard anyway, to avoid too many tweaks.

Beautiful weather at least - 60, sunny and very fall colorful.

15 push ups.

AJ did 10, so I had to do more... He then promptly did 10 more. So I... decided (quietly to myself) that they only counted if you did them consecutively.