Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Another slightly longer field checking session at Fountainhead. Still nowhere near taking advantage of all the hours the park is open - maybe tomorrow I'll get close.

Minor addendum - among the features Mikell either didn't notice or didn't consider worth mapping way back when, I found an apparently deep well about 25 meters above the reservoir water level and only ~150 meters from the water's edge. I'm amazed at the idea that it ever would have produced enough water to have justified the effort of digging it - in the pre-reservoir era I presume it dates to the water table would presumably have been even lower and it's hard to see how the area whose rainfall percolating through the ground it could have hoped to draw on could have been more than a few acres. Maybe it just wasn't supplying a very large household. Or it served only to provide drinking water that had been filtered through a lot of soil rather than water for all uses.

Just over six hours of fieldwork at Fountainhead, discounted by 1/3 for the unavoidable standing still.

No alarming new aches or pains on waking so cycled to work again. Ad back in the evening by way of PCRM in upper NW.

Back cycling - some traffic light timing has changed and construction both vanished and popped up while I've been condemned to Metro. Wrist seemed happy enough as long as I avoided putting a lot of weight on it - think an out of the saddle panic stop would be uncomfortable but will declare victory if I get home again tonight without feeling any worse discomfort than I did on the way in.

Note: right Achilles tendon now feels normal and doesn't appear to be inflamed/swollen anywhere but I'm not going to assume I'm out of the woods yet. Will see how it takes the weekend before I declare that scare over.

Remainder of the days cycling, to and from a PT session for my formerly broken wrist, to the Rumsey Aquatic Center and then home by way of Whole Foods to get yogurt for Dan.

Right Achilles tendon still more or less happy feeling.

Might have been flirting with 3 intensity. Didn't want to spend all evening to make a legitimate LSD workout of it.

Again at Rumsey Aquatic Center. More lanes given over to lap swimming on Monday evenings than at least one of the other times I've visited. A pity they put the very fast lane rather than the slowpoke lane right next to the non-lap swimming area in which I was running - highly fit people doing the butterfly splash a lot more than most slow swimmers. Although I have seen exceptional slow swimmers with abysmal kick mechanics who manage squeeze a lot of splash out of otherwise not very effectual movements.

Beginning to think I may have been taking my right Achilles tendon problem too casually - closer examination has me thinking that despite the lack of any perceptible trauma associated with the onset of symptoms, it may well be more than just some inflammation. Worst case, looking at WebMD and the like and given that I can still walk more or less normally, would appear to be a partial rupture.