Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Pig Sprint Blue - hot for the time of year, thick vegetation and the juniper areas mapped as rough open with exceedingly pale green dots did take getting used to. Truly large error on the way to 7 (partially ascribable, I think, to subconsciously expecting the juniper area I wanted to head for to look like a clearing in the distance) took me through some awful vegetation to the road at the south edge of the map - otherwise my head was more less working. Though I probably should have taken the trails around to 1. Did as Brian May and James Scarborough did punching the wrong control on the way to 12 but I checked the code so it was just on the way to 12 instead of instead of 12 (I'm rather proud of the tortured syntax there). A merely okay run given how much time I spend in ridge and valley terrain but can't be too unhappy with fourth.

Blue - Splits

Commute, returning by way of QOC BOD meeting.

Rainy return commute to view part of irritating Bush press conference, which certainly ought to silence critics who argue the administration can't bring itself to admit error (why keep arguing when the other side insists on proving you right?). At least it was less of a distraction from my taxes than regularly scheduled programming would have been. Should have run at least a little bit but let rain dissuade me.

Cycling commute after total rest Sunday. Ankle now feeling pretty much normal. Left knee, since I haven't mentioned it lately, much the same - a bit better now but has felt significantly worse than previously in the past week. Maybe two or three days of laying off it would take care of it. Or, if cycling is to blame, going to Flying Pig might do it. And would certainly be less drastic than laying off exercise during the competitive season.

Trail run in Rock Creek Park after a long time away. Made a valiant attempt to take my right ankle and, by extension, my whole body out of the spring O season. Fortunately, my ankles are strong enough to survive my trying to destroy one of them on an absurdly safe section of packed dirt trail but I was walking gingerly the next day.