Training Log Archive: Hammer

Some icing, some dynamic stretching. Swelling has gone down a lot already.

Warmup. Knee was quite sore during this so I should have known this would be a bad day. Normally I take good care of the knee leading up to an O race. Only iced it once in last 5 days. Big mistake there.

Adrenalin and concentration put the knee concerns behind me early. Ran well to first few CPs but a little bit too much hesitation. Then hooked #4 by running too high. Running back down I hyperextended my knee and it hurt a lot. Ran hard to #5 hoping it was OK but side hill to #6 was painful so I stopped for a bit. Jogged the next few CPs but knee got worse. Should have stopped but it was too enjoyable. Knowing that has gotten me in trouble before I decided to be cautious but I fell on hill coming out of 14 do decided to walk it in. Very painful trying to climb out of 16. No grip and couldn't put weight on it. Frustrating. Despite that really enjoyed the weekend. 2.5 hours home. Looking forward to the rumoured 6h adventure run there soon.

Middle Blue - Splits

warm-up

Really enjoyed the woods and the route choice legs which I generally did not choose the best route. At #11 I was in 2nd and close to the Duke but on the long leg to #12 I started to get tired and my knee got sore very quickly thereafter. Struggled with the precision nav at #12 and made a 2 minute error. Followed that up with a slow run to #13, a bad fall and another 30 second error on #13. Lost almost 7 minutes to ShadowCaster on those two legs alone so the running speed and route choices were poor too.. Got it together again on #14 and then jogged the final few CPs to the finish. V. tired after this but in an enjoyable kinda way. Time to ice the knee.

Long Red Y - Splits

Event: 2014 US Nationals
 

Dang loops with H.

MAC Core with Sarah.

Curvy treadmill

C • Curves are cool 2

ARX on a Thursday'ish kinda evening.

Morning training fail. Got to about the trail centre on rail trail with Tarno when the rain started to pour down. Tarno's light died at about that time and it got foggy quickly. Wasn't wearing enough clothes so got cold. Decided to turn around earlier than normal to play it safe as we were having trouble seeing. Got even colder. Got home and to get warm elected to take bike shoes off inside but slipped and fell down the stairs to the basement. Wrist and back are very sore. Didn't hit knee or head but not a great way to start off the day.

C • Ouch!! 6

C • Nygren 3

After moving slowly most of the day from a sore back I popped a few tylenol and went to ARX training in ARK Burlington territory today. Got half way to the training and realized I had no maps. No worries will get some from Dana. Got to the parking lot and couldn't find her. So just went for a run with the gang when we saw the ARK mobile. Waited for Dana to appear got a map and off we went but I gave her my glasses cause it was raining. After training I went to drive home but hadn't picked up my glasses from Dana so went for another run looking for her with the blue group. Saw Super and then tripped 100m later. Not sure if that was related. Banged up the left knee on the rocky bruce side trail. Knee is now nicely swollen. Got the keys though. Realized this wasn't my day for training so decided to drive home via the Clappisons Timmies to buy the rest of their peanut crunch donuts (well a half dozen was the goal). They only had one but it was yummy. It cures sore muscles apparently.

Time for a scotch and perhaps watch some hockey. Bring on October.

C • October 1