Training Log Archive: DWildfogel

Sprint the Golden Gate (Vladimir), First Round (A-Meet). Good course, and it was really fun, but my body just didn't want to go (it was quite chilly, but usually that's good for me). Worse, I bobbled most of the controls, and then was too hasty going to the last control, missed a turn, got confused, wound up 100m out of the way, for an error of about 1:15. Pretty disappointed in my perfomance.

Given the way my achilles has been, never signed up for the remaining rounds. Made me quite sad to have miss all this good sprint orienteering.

Stage One: Masters/Juniors - Splits

Event: Sprint the Golden Gate
 

The usual weekly accumulation of morning stretching.

Al theraband and weight exercises, but only 2 sets each instead of 3. Also core exercises but about 2/3 the reps.

Two front-of-house loops: 6:27, 5:46. Achilles felt better with the extra day's rest. Just out to loosen up a bit; don't want to get sore again before Sat's Golden Gate Sprint.

Sore lower legs, mild cold symptoms; figure a day's rest would do me good.

Theraband, core. Ribs still hurt some when I do exercises lying on the floor, but otherwise they (the ribs) aren't much of a problem.

Skyline Blvd. Standard run to Black Rd and back. Got out a bit late and was hungry all the way (should have had some Hammer Gel!), which made the run less fun. My achilles was sore, but not as bad as it's been (I've been applying Voltaren for a few days) and wasn't much of a factor at this pace. Finally, realized only just before I ran that the Golden Gate Sprints are THIS Saturday, so I was wondering as I ran about the wisdom of tiring myself out on a run like this; as a consequence of those thoughts, didn't pick it up as I usually would over the last 1.5 miles. That turned out to be a good thing, as later I was feeling achy and cold-ish anyway.

Weights. Ribs are almost no problem for these exercises.