Training Log Archive: Anna

At the Y.

just core exercises

Did some courses in Orienteering Today.
Knee exercises w/o weights.

Got to stay in the pool after everyone else left. It was peaceful.

500 warmup
kick until it was time to leave.

800 SKiPS
9x100 drill
4x100 down hard, back easy
100 easy

Total: 2200 yards

Watched my high school team's Alumni Run from the pool. It was a 2-mile run, which I didn't know at the time, and they passed by twice. Brian led throughout, with Andy finishing about 30 seconds behind him. Brian's been doing 2-a-days and is part of a high-mileage college program, and Andy finds it harder to hold himself back on easy days and says high mileage isn't good for him. Next was Tom, I think, an about-to-be junior that we stole from the soccer and baseball teams last year; he's beaten Andy and Brian's times from their sophomore years and was only a little behind Andy.

Poor Ali had nobody to run against and ran 7-plus minute miles. She didn't look like she was physically straining when I saw her, but I don't know what point of the race that was. If she's smart, she won't read too much into it.

I stretched well after my workout, which wasn't all that high intensity. I need to remember to do that consistently.

Today is a bad day for my foot. Yesterday I forgot to take my medicine, and last night my night splint was cutting off my circulation so I took it off after sleeping for 2 hours. So today I had some morning pain, but it was mostly later in the day I was having problems. I had definite arch pain in both feet while walking to class which hasn't happened in a long time, and it was more persistent than normal. It doesn't hurt in my heel, it hurt in the middle of my arch, and once it even hurt to the inside of the ball of my left foot.

So the conclusion I'm coming to is that it was my 2 walks that did it. After the first one I had milder symptoms of the same type, without having missed my medicine. I've missed taking my medicine for one day before, and I've taken off the night splint in the middle of the night, too, so I don't think it's that.

The moral of this story is that I shouldn't get excited about being fixed just because my overly-optimistic doctor tells me I am.

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Read a John Grisham book. The knee exercises were with 5 lbs.

taking it easy, since the aqua-jogging has been hard on my legs.

So this morning I was rushing from working lap swim at the U City pool, to swimming at the Y, to working normal hours at the U. City pool. The good thing about having 2 guarding jobs is that I get free memberships at the good pool and the pool with the good hours. And even though I didn't really have enough time for my workout, I got Susie to let me in the pool 5 minutes early. It was so fun to dive into the pool and be able to look up and see the perfect reflection of the tile on the bottom of the surface of the water. I wondered for a few minutes why it was so clear, then I realized it's because nobody had clouded the water up with bubbles yet!

500 choice
6x150 kick, drill, swim
100 swim
25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, back down again: alternating 25's easy and hard
300 cooldown

Total: 3100 meters

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The back of my knee was kind of tight. I could only stretch it after my 10-minute drive to work.

California map, Possum Trot map.

500 choice
6x100 drill down, swim back
2x300 build by 100
300 cooldown

Total: 2000 yards

felt an odd twinge in my knee, thought it was best to back off. This has been a down week anyway.

Testing foot again. My foot didn't feel perfect when I started, but it didn't hurt while I was walking.

2 maps again, first was a D16 course from Russia, with lots of green. The contour features were relatively defined, but they were hard to read in the green.The legs all required switching between the features being followed, so I couldn't get too comfortable only looking at vegetation or only looking at contours.
The second map was from the 1987 Troll Cup, and it was a green course. The contours were much trickier, because a lot more things were only one contour high than on the other map, and they looked more random. There were some fun (minor) route choices, with trails I had to choose how long to follow, or stony ground to avoid.

Event: 2007 USOF Convention and Colorado 5-Days
 

800 swim, kick, drill, swim
600 kick every 3rd 50 flutter kick hard
100 free
8 100 IM's

Total: 2300 yards

at work

For most of this, I looked at 2 maps.
The first was a map with contours, white woods, marshes, and a clearing--that was it--that was very interesting. The contours were good for me to practice on, because I'm not used to making quick decisions about features that small. I went through the course forwards and backwards, looking at possible routes and visualizing the contours. It was hard to tell how much I should trust the marshes, and I just tried to pay attention to contour features I could run by.
The second map was of a World Cup race at Pawtuckaway, and it had different routes marked on them. It was too hard to plan routes for those controls because the markings obscured the features, so instead I focused on making sense of the contours in other parts of the map. What made this difficult were the one-contour knolls scattered around, because they distracted me from the big picture.