Training Log Archive: PG

Hamstring tight and sore. Went for a long walk this morning, very hot (about 90), then a short bike ride in the early evening, very windy. Then stretching and 18 pushups.

Better than doing nothing.

C • "Better than doing nothing" ... 1

After an evening tot think about things, back to Camp Buckner to mark the control sites and make a few more corrections.

Day 2 at Surebridge. A little bit cooler (starting at 10:51 instead of 12:51) and I had a little bit of energy, and was doing ok, until just before #4 I tripped on the top of a fallen log and yanked my hamstring again. Another one of those -- I know immediately the day is over, no thoughts of suck it up and keep going. So after a couple of minutes I slowly start trudging off back to the finish, took about 45-50 minutes.

I got it in a little different place than last time (which was mostly at the atttachments at the top end). This was mostly along the main part of the muscle on the medial side. It feels taut and very tender. Whoopee-doo....

C • Bummer! 3

So totally bummed, I assume no orienteering for a while, have to see if I can get things back together for the rogaine, which should be doable. And in the meantime, in a totally rotten frame of mind.

But at least I went and found some good company, in this case Jeff and Judy, and then Linda too, and for a while we talked about all our aches and pains, and then Jeff complained that we sounded just like old folks and we should get back to the old days when you'd talk about who was sleeping with whom, cause that was a lot more fun to talk about, well, it got me out of my bad mood, at least for a while.

And I then I took a bunch of ibuprofen and headed off with Peter and John Goodwin for a couple of hours of very leisurely rogaine practice at a course on the way home, and that turned out to be doable and very good fun, the hardest part being when I was in the control circle and just little changes in my balance would send unpleasant twinges up and down my left leg. But still very good for morale.

So I guess I am back to the big D for more therapy, if she'll have me. And probably pull out the bike. And certainly keep up the rogaine training, since that is only 5 weeks away....

C • Who cares who is sleeping with... 5

Event: HVO A-Meet
 

Red course (M45) at HVO meet at Surebridge. A pretty sad effort. Felt croaked by the hot weather (this is nothing new, seems to happen the first warm spell every spring). Orienteering was ok, but I was going so slowly and walking so much it was pretty easy.

Field checking a sprint course for next weekend at West Point (Camp Buckner). Not the normal process. I'd been told there was some construction there, but not where it was, so I hadn't bother to draft out a possible course in advance, figuring I'd have to redo it anyway. But the construction turned out to be in an area I wasn't going to use anyway. So I just started making up the course on the fly, and doing what map corrections seemed necessary, and by the time time I was done I was actually quite pleased with what I had come up with.

Definitely flatter and shorter than the last two years. I think the specs are something like 1.5 km (as the crow flies, but the shortest runnable route is a good bit longer, 1.8 to 2.0 km perhaps). Haven't measured the climb, but it shouldn't be more than 80 meters. And 22 controls. And a great finish chute.

I expect there will be some DNF's, or MP's, or whatever you want to call them, not because the course is hard, but if you are going quickly, some people will skip a control or take a couple out of order. We shall see who can keep cool.

C • Finish chute 3

More rogaine practice, though less useful than it might have been because I seem to be spending more time in the open areas and less in the woods.

The G is finally reacting a bit to the post-dinner regimen. But the legs still feel beat....

Season opener for the Thursday evening track group at Eaglebrook. Certainly not ready for this, but you have to start someplace.

2 x 1600 with a minute and a half between, 6:52 and 6:42. Was planning on no worse than 7, so that was ok. But I saw no need to do the third one that ws planned by the group, no point pushing my luck.

The usual stretching afterwards, plus pushups (15) at Gail's request. They are getting a little easier. The pullups (doing 2 just about kills me) are another matter.

Plus 3 hours of good rogaine practice on a nearly deserted course.

This weekend is going to be hot!

C • pullups 1

5 laps before, one lap after.

April 18th finally, though the IRS tried to mess with me by announcing that folks around here affected by the storm had two extra days to file. Doesn't matter, I'll give the same response I gave to a woman who called up at 4 pm yesterday, could I do her taxes, and how much would I charge. Late afternoon on the last day and she's trying to dicker over price. Sp the answer of course was, sorry, not taking any new clients. Sometimes you just know people are going to be trouble.

Anyway, in Greenfield to clean up a few things at the office, so when I was done I went for the usual 13 hills loop. Good hard pace, a little faster than last week but wobbly toward the end. And legs and butt pretty sore later in the day.

The HVO meet (runing M45) will be a struggle, especially if it is warm.

Thinking of getting my knee scoped. Well, not really, but I'm tempted after getting a look at the sinfut, decadent, and certainly delicious looking box of choclates that arrived for Gail, courtesy of Spike and Mary!

Gail offered to share, but was smart enough to make the offer after dinner, when my current diet (no food after dinner) would not allow it. So far I'm sticking to it, though this was a test....

C • Spike's tactics 8