Training Log Archive: iansmith

Event: 7. Nationaler, Blauenpass
 

Run to the start before the middle distance race at the Swiss national race on the "Blauenpass" map in Zwingen, near Basel.

Dreiländer Stadt OL race in Basel.

Easy peasy run to the start, with a break to chat when we ran into Hannah, Sam, and Boris.

And off to Switzerland! Four cities, seven races (hopefully), sixteen days, and one sexy Nordwand. I am hopeful that my condition is not mono or that my body breaks its current trend, stops failing at life, and recovers quickly. The symptoms have changed slightly in the past day. I have an irritated throat with coughing, infrequent congestion, and a strange stomachache. The possibility of pancreatic infection has occurred to me, but I don't feel as tired as I would expect. Breathing is a little difficult, but I feel strong enough to roam around, even carrying my gear. Fortunately, if anything should happen to me, Switzerland has an excellent health care system.

The past week has been a bit stressful trying to get everything in order before going to Swissistan, and unfortunately, some tasks remain undone. However, I should be able to take care of some business via e-mail. Whatever my condition, I will cheer very loudly for the various WOC persons (wooo go Tove!); hopefully my throat will not be an impediment, and I will be able to measure my cheering prowess against the best in the world.

C • Food allergy/allergies? 9

C • Medical diagnosis 1

I woke up feeling a bit weak and an elevated heart rate, so I decided to rest today. I had a sore-ish throat starting on Monday, and my current symptoms include a mild headache, some congestion, a mild cough, and lack of energy. I estimate the likeliest candidates are a cold and mono. I will drink lots of fluids, take OTCs as needed, and rest. So far, my condition doesn't appear to be severe. It will take a lot more than mild symptoms to keep me from going to Europe for a third year in a row. I'm going to see the Eiger if I have to drag myself up from Grindelwald with an IV.

Note: took acetominophen and pseudoephedrine. I'm on my last four doses of doxycycline, so it's a bit of a party in my liver.

C • Keep an eye out for Lyme sy... 6

Easy run around the river. I ran slower than I expected, and I apparently need to recalibrate my HR zones. My knees and feet were a little sore from Monday's effort, and my throat hurt a bit today - possibly exacerbated by breathing hard during the sprint. I have not put that much effort into a run in some time.

While I know very little about The Newsroom, the first eight minutes of this episode are brilliant.

Also very cool: space-time crystals.

C • Nobody does! 2

Quickroute. GPS track was wildly off, probably due to passing near a number of buildings and breezeways. Controls 3-4 are distorted; I hit 3 directly and ran to the right of 4 through the breezeway. Controls 5-6 are also distorted; I did not make any path mistakes on either leg. I wonder if right out to the street to 7 would have been better; I ran left and through the passageway.

I apparently slowed considerably on the leg to 11. I need to practice maintaining a steady and fast effort throughout a sprint. I made a mistake to 19 - I should have run east of the first building and continued on the left rather than zipzagging through the field. I think the finish might have been faster running left, but I am unsure.

Quickroute. GPS was better than in the previous sprint, though still slightly spurious. The recording mode was set to "smart" recording, which almost certainly increased the granularity of the track. The routes are essentially correct, though the bobble between 13 and 14 is a data collection artifact; I executed that leg fine. Unfortunately, the route choice error to 16 is not an artifact.

Sprint 1 - Splits

Sprint 2 - Splits