Training Log Archive: jtorranc

This hurt. My right quadriceps didn't react well to the hard running in general the two preceding days (more soreness and stiffness and visible swelling compared to the left leg) and was not at all happy at the constant tweaks running through areas of thicker low vegetation, particularly in the first half of this course. Barring a bit of drifting on the first long leg, I was pretty clean in this race (I should hope so since the navigation was relatively easy), though not flowing especially smoothly.

Blue - Splits

Three significant errors on, I believe, controls 7, 9 and 15 - a very bad race and an indication that I need to work on both compass technique and on being systematic. Not feeling great or terrible physically - this mostly involved the most runnable woods of what was available.

Blue WRE - Splits

Event: US Team Fundraiser
 

My thigh felt surprisingly good during this - didn't bother me noticeably after the first leg except when I got the leg caught on low vegetation (foreshadowing unpleasantness to come). I drifted slightly on some legs and bobbled control 11 but this will have to be the race from the weekend that I'm happy with given the unstiff competition from my other two runs. If they hold another A meet in this or similar terrain, I'll go back but I'll hope to do so in better shape to run well.

Sprint - Splits

Still up in the air whether I'll be able to run normally in the sprint tomorrow and even on Saturday and Sunday. Some gingerly testing last night makes me think calling on the quadriceps for shock absorption may be less of a problem than the rapid unbending of the lower leg to get the foot into position for landing. Here's hoping another day makes a significant difference. Though it'll be interesting to see who I can beat hobbling through a sprint and who I can't if it comes to that.

My right leg is much more useful. I no longer feel as though I'm faking walking normally on the flats and the knee bends beyond 90 degrees before discomfort sets in. The biggest remaining problem is soreness when absorbing more than very slight shocks. Two days left before the sprint in Florida - I think I'll be all right but I won't claim absolute certainty.

Run in from Cleveland Park, having taken the Metro there after dropping off the rented SUV. Was tempted, when my alarm went off, to snooze on and just Metro straight to work after the dropoff but I would have had to fight real traffic (even on a federal holiday) if I'd waited much longer and that would have been too awful a waste of time to contemplate. Such rest as I'll do to prepare for Florida starts now. Perhaps I ought to just train straight through it but poor results could be bad for morale.

Repertory and performance class with Helanius. Got ambushed with entirely new (not extending or refining what had gone before) choreography to learn, which was fun. Unfortunately, in trying to cement the last bit of this in my muscle memory, I managed to run very nearly full tilt into Helanius' knee with my right thigh just above the knee. No noticeable discolouration and not much swelling but a deep bruise nonetheless - writing this on Tuesday morning, I can just about fake walking normally on flat ground but going up stairs is harder and absorbing the slight impacts while going down verges on painful. Apparently, I'll be doing a more thorough rest before the FLO meet than I'd intended.

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