Training Log Archive: JanetT

After the t-storms, and as the temps started to recover from 50s this morning. About 62 when I left, 66 when I got back, and humid.

As is typical in this neck of the woods in the "summer," I was stopped for directions to someplace. :-) One of them was headed the wrong way, which is also typical (I think she had been given directions but had missed a turn).

Lots of birds calling, squirrels grazing, and one tractor-trailer being lifted/towed back onto the highway after going off the roadway beyond the shoulder with the tail end still on the highway.

Event: Boston Sprint Camp 2016
 

I'm one of four or five members of this class with knee issues (depending on who shows up on a given day). I've inquired which doctors they've gone to and am considering calling one of them. Knee still tight and sore.

On a more positive note, I was able to roll up into teaser position a few times which is more than I could do last week (due to rib tightness/didn't want to push it...probably scar tissue that's getting slowly stretched back into more normal shape).

Gorgeous outside despite the wind, which really wasn't as bad as I expected. Low 60s and mostly sunny. Lots of birds chirping but none I could identify from their call. Saw a flicker and a robin.

Speaking of robins, there are four young ones in the nest outside the front door (in a yew, so nice cover), which are getting bigger every day. Will probably be out of the nest before too long, to mom's relief.

Knee was better enough that I stayed for the abs and stretching today. Still more swollen than it was before the weekend. I'll keep icing when I can.

Ribs are almost back to normal but I still feel a weird sensation when I first lie down on my back. Not pain so much as tightness(?).

Knee still sore and won't bend but not as bad as after the race Sunday. A setback, though.

In Chatham. I didn't stay for the abs r stretching as I didn't want to get down on the floor and have to get back up again. Knee pain this morning is less noticeable this afternoon but I'm still being careful as there's some swelling that wasn't there before Sunday. Ice and Aleve are helping keep it tolerable.

Event: DVOA Rogaine Pocono Environmental Education Center
 

AOWN on the drive to Kent, CT: two snapping turtles (one large which I steered around, one small and in the other lane) and some young turkeys (quail-sized) that I had to come to a stop for before momma came to steer them right. :-) Heard lots of birds in the woods, too, but didn't ID any.

Red middle course at team trials. Nominal 4.8km/230m

Overcast and low 60s most of the time; it rained hard before we got up and then tapered off a bit before stopping for awhile, starting up again as we were changing and getting ready to leave, so absolutely fine timing!

I started ~40 minutes earlier than originally scheduled, taking Glen's spot as he also started earlier. Otherwise I think I would have been finishing up when it started raining again.

Fell once (leaving the area of #9) and tweaked my right knee somehow (twisting a bit, maybe) though I didn't land on it. Hurt to stand on and I wasn't sure I would finish but I headed off in the direction of 10--and towards the arena--and by the time I got to the climb it was feeling okay enough as long as I didn't straighten my leg too much. It hurt enough on the ride home that I asked Glen to drive so I could keep it still (I'm the usual driver when we travel together as I have a tendency towards motion sickness). Vit-I and ice application are underway.

Tony Muffati started two minutes behind me and reached #1 just before I did; I was a bit left of the line but had just spotted the flag as he came in to punch. To 2 I stayed above the rocks it apparently a bit too high as I was close enough to the AT to hear two hikers wondering about the map David Hunter (and whoever he was running with at the time) was carrying. I circled back in the direction David had come from to get 2.

I should probably have stayed below the bare rock to 3 because I could have attacked off the same trail bend, but I saw the trail as easier footing and angled up to it from 2 (so I climbed then instead of later in the leg. Spiked 3.

Down the spur to 4 noting the saddle just before it. Spiked. Almost turned left because I had seen the direction change from 5-6 but then remembered I had to continue on the line and get 5 first. I was crossing about at the straight line from 8-9 when Sergei (Gnatiouk or Fedorov) asked, "Where 85?!?" I was headed for 82 and I said, "What?" and continued on my way. Way to interrupt someone's concentration even if I was going slow. Still, I had no trouble with the saddle, seeing the form line hill before it. Spike.

To 6 I wasn't sure about the left route around the marsh and crossing another one near the end of the leg so I headed north to hit the AT again and took that, angling in from the small hill and charcoal platform to the SW...I probably added several unneeded contours to get over the hill going that way but I was sure of my navigation, had a trail, and found a nice path through the lighter green (mountain laurel, in bloom). Spike.

I went left of the rocks to 7 and miscounted rocky spurs so was too far west but corrected when other details didn't look right.

Spiked 8 and 9. To 9 I dropped farther down the hill than intended but figured out what I did when I was below instead of above the rockiness by the marshy area.

To 10 (after recovering somewhat from my fall) I went left/west of the green spur following the stream to the bend. Climbed between the big cliff and the rockiness under the line (where it was cut) so I'd be in the right reentrant...spiked it which was very satisfying because it was such a climb, for me especially as I haven't been able to train properly this year. I led with my right foot sideways rather than straight ahead to ease the pressure on my knee. Saw Charlie coming in from the right as I punched but he soon left me in his dust. ;-)

Slow and steady, on the line, to 12 and 13, both of which I also spiked, then zig-zagged a bit down the hill to 14 as I couldn't run anyway. Then down to the trail and to the giant boulder, and in to the finish.

Glad I went, glad it's over, and I wish I knew what was going on in my knee (whether it's "just" inflammation of the pes anserine bursa, or something else). Ouch.

Found out at the finish I wasn't last, as Peggy said she had a frustrating time with 10 and 11. That's the only time that will happen, I'm sure. ;-)

Middle Red - Splits