Training Log Archive: tonyf

Heather and I ran the UNH Trail off the Kanc, after watching the Crank the Kanc bikers. Slow going over the summit scrambles and the rocky, rooty ledges. Nice weather, good views. No problem with cast.

Birch Bend with Suzanne.

North Conway sidewalk with S, from Eastern Slopes Inn to Close Knit Sisters and back. Longest walk for her since broken ankle. My legs felt sore from yesterday.

Hurricane Mountain Rd from home to top and back. 38 min up, 29 min down. Pushed hard.

Walk to Post Office and back with S. Some trail. Her ankle is recoveing.

CT scan showed a broken triquetrum bone in left wrist, as well as arthritis at the base of the thumb, with various cysts and spurs. So will have cast for several weeks. My first broken bone except for a chipped ankle sprain.

C • Which is more impressive? 2

Village roads.

C • Impressed . . . 4

Village roads with Suzanne - as warmup.

Wrist in a cast. Possible break in scaphoid bone, and arthritis or new injury at base of thumb. Results from CAT scan tomorrow should clarify things. Still plenty swollen.

Boston to North Conway, picking up S in Durham. Wrist still swollen - seeing doctor tomorrow.

C • Good!!!! 5

Route on Route Gadget.

Things started a little badly as I ran much too far on the trail before heading off to #2. Could not really identify features so did not cut in until past the small marsh and immediately climbed a rocky steep knoll. I relocated through the two contour reentrant and was fortunate to spike the control, losing only a minute. For # 3 I headed SW to the trail, picking up the old skid track, then S on the trail past lots of people walking to the start. Off where the trail turned SE left me a long climb up to the big cliff, thence over a knoll to the pond below. After #4 south to the trail bend, then trail to due east of the control. I was not sure I properly checked off on the trail so uncertain about the attack. It was lucky that Dennis W. left the trail with me. I headed for the south edge of the flat area and then saw a clearing a bit left. A close look at the map and I finally saw the yellow with green stripes. So Dennis and I danced through the slash together. Then downhill to the marsh/pond. Dennis debated crossing it and then turned left. I went right to the beaver dam, then straight to control # 6. Drifted north on the way to # 7 and crossed the reentrant/stream without seeing the side reentrant. Climbed up the hill expecting to find trail, which I did, so through the saddle - lost over a minute with extra climb and distance. All the rest was pretty clean. So altogether, no problem spiking all the controls, but a little time lost on poor route execution. I'm very happy with a 7 minute win in M70 and a third behind Peter and Bob on the course. In retrospect, this has to be one of the best runs of my career.

Jogged most of the way up the hill to the start. Felt good.

Oh! I almost forget to mention my wrist. I took my spare T2 Active Ankle, put it on my wrist, and taped it a bit more, with the foot plastic in my palm. Found I would have to adjust my arm angle to get my thumb compass pointing straight. It worked! And probably prevented more damage the two times I fell uphill going to #3. After the race I got some ice and a wrap from the EMT, and drove the whole way to Boston.

Long Brown Y - Splits