Training Log Archive: PG

I don't think I'll be running for a little while. Right hell/arch hurts, plus I did something to the outside of my left foot about 1/3 of the way around yesterday's course, hurt the rest of the way, was keeping me awake some last night, and very sore this morning. I would have been better skipping yesterday's course, but then hindsight is always 20/20.

I'll have to get the bike out, see how that feels.

Controls: 302/800

It's easiest to put all the links for the weekend's maps in one place --

Sprint (Green/Brown/Orange/M65) -- course, my route.
Middle (Red/M45) -- course, my route.
Long (Red/M45) -- course, my route.

I've got a nice bruised/swollen area on the outside of my left foot. Don't know what I did, though I remember doing it around #7 or 8 on Sunday, and one of those that don't go away after a minute or two.

Interesting heart rate graph for the run, looks like I'm not putting out after the river crossing. But in the rocks I just was feeling very very fragile.

This morning, out to buy some furniture (part of an effort to make my mom's house work better for the current situation, in this case the need was a comfortable chair for the health aide spending the night), went to 4 stores before we (me and the aide) found something suitable, that's a record for me, I never go to more than one. At one point passed an urgent health care center on one side of the road -- maybe they would look at (and x-ray?) my foot -- and a pharmacy offering flu shots without an appointment on the other. I opted for the one more likely to do me some good and got a flu shot.

It is just speculation on my part, but there were two attempts today to set the world record for the worst time per kilometer on a single leg of an O' course. One was unsuccessful but very imaginative, the other a very solid effort, with an estimated kilometer time in the range of 150 to 175 minutes.

Details to follow.

Is there a way to search the AP split analysis archives to see if there has been anything worse?

C • Worst leg ever 17

This was yesterday, end of the middle, coming uphill, when I had a least a little energy. Looking both excellent and quite fierce according to Gail. Photo by Eddie Bergeron, lots of others are here.

C • Great photo! 5

Red course (M45) at Hickory Run. Yesterday I got the better of the courses, today it got the better of me. Feet got progressively worse. OK for the first part on the easy and non-rocky stuff, but then the second half with lots of rocks and some laurel, well, I just couldn't handle it. Afraid to run much because of the feet, plus one really stupid route choice (though I'm guessing the better way would only have been a couple of minutes faster).

Just didn't have it.

Red course --
part 1.
part 2.
part 3.
part 4.

A little fuzzy just using the camera. I'll do proper scans when I get home tomorrow and add my route.

Very nice course again by Sandy. Quite different terrain before vs. after the river crossing. I lost 4 minutes to Ali up to 10, and then 10 minutes the rest of the way. Likewise with JJ, a minute up on him at 10, 3 minutes down overall. Maybe I ought to stick to the brown course.

Red Long - Splits

Event: Hickory Run
 

Sprint at DVOA A meet at Hickory Run. M65 Green/Brown/Orange course, 2.0 km, 50 m climb.

My route. Orienteering well and ran well except for #4, a lapse in concentration, lost 30+ seconds. Rest was feet. Feet hurt but tolerable. Legs had some energy.

Nice course by Clem (I think), made good use of the area.

Middle distance at DVOA A meet at Hickory Run. M45 Red course, 3.9 km, 110 m climb.

My route. Good run, orienteering well, but was a more tired and not moving as well.

Very nice area and very nice course by Sandy. Needed to be on your toes, and the excursion into the laurel for 7 and 8 was fine, added some variety. And I think people had problems there, even though the map seemed just fine to me.

Caught up to JJ at #7, and Ethan punched right after me. I didn't know when JJ started (turned out it was 10 minutes before me), and I thought Ethan had started 2 minutes before me. Beat them to 8, then got stuck in the laurel leaving 8. Saw JJ a number of times thereafter, but he was a little faster. Thought I'd seen the last of Ethen at 8, but then I was back up to him at 10. But then he just ran away from me, picked up more than 2 minutes on me from there to the finish.

The WOC stars (Sam and Ali) both had problems, Ali still got me by half a minute, but I tied Sam exactly. Not a really a scalp, but I'll call it a scalpette. Got to take what you can. And probably the last time I'll come anywhere close to her. I think she lost about 4 minutes on #7, whereas Ali just sort of dribbled time away in small chunks. Both are fast enough to run the course in 30, but it was demanding orienteering (visibility was often restricted) and easy to miss. A great test.

OBG Sprint - Splits

Red Middle - Splits

Lots of things happening --

-- Post-run yesterday, walking to the grocery store from my car, all of a sudden my right heel/arch hurt. Been hurting all today. Very distressing.

-- On the other hand, the heels aren't hurting. These things balance out.

-- Monday the vibes seemed to be good for getting my mom in the hospice program. Yesterday her doctor, very much a cold fish, said he saw no reason to order such. Today a meeting with the hospice director and an examination of my mom by her, she thinks Jamie definitely should be in hospice. She (the hospice director) meets with the doc tomorrow, and she says she can be very persuasive. We shall see. It would help.

-- Got home for the night (and a fine dinner that I didn't have to cook myself), even managed to get in a little golf on the way home in the lingering daylight. Good for the soul.

-- And, for the first time in my life, got sued. Though that is not a bad thing in this case, nor unexpected, and in certain respects a good thing. May have to go to Las Vegas before long.

-- And I have gotten more use out of my cell phone in the last week than in all the previous years combined. Though I have not yet had to deal with texting....

C • texting 6

C • Viva LV! 3

So this is how at least one part of the glorified world of small business works --

Every day I get on the phone for a while to get my mom off various mailing lists, plus cancel periodicals, because she can no longer read. Today I called New York magazine, got a pleasant person at customer service. Asked if I could cancel her subscription.

The problem was that they farm out the subscription operation, well, maybe not entirely, but in my mom's case the subscription renewals had been processed by (and the money paid to) a subscription service. Actually 3 such services over the years. So I would have to contact them.

She was kind enough to give me the three names and phone numbers. Before I hung up, I asked her how long my mom's subscription was good for. There was a pause while she looked it up, and then she said, "It goes until June of 2033."

I almost started laughing, except I'd already run into this with another magazine. I think they just keep calling up, and someone would ask if it was OK to renew her subscription, and she wouldn't understand a thing, but she's very polite so she would say yes. I've seen such calls here, she would hang up, I'd ask who it was, she'd have no idea. And then a bill would arrive, and she'd pay it.

The woman from New York was actually trying pretty hard, she gave me as best she could a rough breakdown of what part of the extra 23 years each of these three outfits was responsible for. So far I've gotten a hold of one of them, supposedly the prime offender. Yes they would cancel their share of the extra years, yes they would issue a refund, but it will take about 6-8 weeks to process.

We shall see.

C • Extended Subscriptions 3

O' practice at Five Ponds.

14 controls, course was 4.5 km, all woods (no trails). Mainly just trying to get a woods workout. No problem with the orienteering. My route (going clockwise). So I think I'm slowly running a little better.

Really need to warm up a little on the trail. Was stumbling a lot the first couple hundred meters until the joints started working.

256/800 (32% done, need to get at least another 100 before winter, will certainly help if I can make it to Hickory Run this weekend).