5K race on Labor Day...terrible time, but 6th place in the 50-59 mens age bracket (out of 26) and 82nd overall out of 369.
Guess I'm not dead yet. A lot more people behind me than in front of me, which is the goal now at 54.
5K race on Labor Day...terrible time, but 6th place in the 50-59 mens age bracket (out of 26) and 82nd overall out of 369.
Guess I'm not dead yet. A lot more people behind me than in front of me, which is the goal now at 54.
today: 12x1h race. Tired from week and morning family beach outing. My son was stung by a "tracina" which caused a lot of commotion. There is very painful venom in their dorsal fin.
http://images.google.it/imgres
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Anyway, felt good but no power. Maybe not enough carbs this activity-rich week. Managed just over a measly 34 laps (13600m). Dont know, felt good but NO power. anyway, enough excuses. Better do better next time.
539 days to MOARG, Gimmelwald 2011.
Hi, I hope your son is OK - that sounds nasty.
Just to provide a quick update (I can't remember when I last wrote on here) I had the surgery on both knees which went well and I'm rehabbing at the moment. I'd say I'm about 80% back to normal daily activities and this week I can start going to the gym, with a view to starting jog/walk in October then building to steady runs.
I hope everyone's running, and everything else, is going well.
A big ouch for your son TPCB. I hope he is ok and it hasn't ruined his appreciation of the sea.
Good to hear from you TrackChick. Things sound positive for you. Best of luck.
Yesterday. An hour 39 miutes of bush running. Starting in the Dargile forest among the beautiful ironbark and spectacular grass trees. I detoured to climb up the last 2.5kms of Mt Ida and did so at a healthy tempo, also ran back down at a good pace (sub 4min kms). From there I headed back into the bush. I travelled along a path clearly not frequented by many or perhaps any for a few years. This took me too a stand of mighty old grass trees before petering out into the scrub. I spent quite some time and energy working through steep untracked scrub before getting back to familiar territory. Very enjoyable.
I squeezed in a nice little hour on the bike later on around gardening jobs.
Today. A number of hours on the chainsaw and carting wood after a tree had come down across an out building.Then the fridge broke down. Fortunately we have a whole kitchen sitting in the shed waiting to be transplanted.
I eventually got away for a pleasant hour of running in the Agyle forest on rolling tracks of crushed quartz.
tpcb,
Speedy healing to your son. May there be no complicating issues.
mopak, you're on to my secret core workout. Chainsaw+ firewood=strong core and a valuable end product in addition to fitness.(Hope you wear the protective chaps, no need to decorate your legs with stitch marks like I did years back.)
Track Chick,
Good of you check in. All the best as you rehab those knees.
Got in a slow paced hour on Friday Aft. Taper day.
Saturday; Claimed my 5th lifetime marathon win at Wakefield MI. 9.5 laps around a gem of a little lake in MI's UP. 22 of us bantered on and sauntered along at a sedate pace under cloud free skies at 75F to 80F(27C). The social context was far more therapeutic than competitive. Blistering 3:42 for my efforts. The race director is a phenomenal guy. All finishers are awarded with a handpainted rock made to resemble a turtle. I'll guess the average age of the field to be mid. 50's.
50' along the canal....drizzling on the way out, pouring on the way back....i guess that's why there was no one there!.....back to the grind, so no time to run for at least two more days....
Ladies, gents, really heartfelt thanks for your empathy.
Very briefly, my son and daughter were swimming in the sea with my wife, while i was reading the sports page. Suddenly the little guy goes loudly ouch, i look up, i see him in pain walking in water chestdeep, but it looks like he got poked by something and that's it. By the second the pain evidently increases and the scream picks up again but becomes constant and full of tears. So my wife carries him to shore as i go towards them, and by the time we meet he is howling. Everybody within at least 50m each side is looking to see what happended. Under his left foot Ed has this blackish bruise the size of a pearl with blood coming out of it, the howling becoming even more intense. The venom is not lethal or anything but as other people gathered round and "tracina" became the buzz, all testimonies agreed the rection to the pain was more than justified. The blackish, concentrated venom is totally painful!
The only thing you can do in this case is either put your foot in hot water or bury it in the hot sand, We did the latter walking hand-in-hand, the howling not subduing yet but at least matched by some remarkable courage by my little man.
The heat diffuses the venom which becomes increasingly less painful. After about 25 minutes he stopped crying. It was sore to step on until the early evening (got poked at about 11am)but next morning all pain had completely disappeared.
Like all toxic substances, some kids who were allergic have actually had very rough recoveries.
Anyway, again thans for your proximity.
todayL Farnesina track, wu routine, intense like very intense quadrupedia, a 1000m with an instructor and a 400, just to feel the legs go.
Been training for XC, made the team today at time trials!
:) :) :)
...I was sore as hell from training camp this past weekend too.
congrats HR.....best of luck with your season.....we have meet #2 today.....
-536 days to MOARG, in Gimmelwald 2011
today:
AM walk to new school with kids, 25mins there, 25 back, bike commute, many errands
PM leisure plodding along in Villa Pamphili during kids gymnastics session, about 1hr, exercises
Gladto hear the young tpcb is on the road to full recovery from this sting. Ouch.
The chuckle delivered from your choice of drinking partners has lasted the long day. You provided the morsel of true good humor that letsrun seems to generate every so often.
AM.7.5 miles at the usual 8:30 to 9 min. pace. Legs were understandably flat, but not sore in the least. I remember no flora or fauna in particular. Got lost in mulling over the passing of a longtime neighbor, friend, educator, and humanitarian. At 85 Mary's heart gave out but her savvy, kindness, and resilient determination, are legacy for our community.
today: one of those "he couldn't get organized to go running kinda day."
driske,
Little Ed's ok. The best part now, if he becomes a little whiny, is to say: "What?? Did you get stung by a Tracina AGAIN?" The whining immediately stops.
I told him dyrters wished him well; a fact more relationally cerebral than speaking to his grandfather on skype while tweaking googleearth, but still fully captivating for a six-year-old, in this webworld we live in. Part of my web-explanotory dadspiel to him ranged from the old-fashioned royal mail to Man's primordial urge to explore.
Glad you liked my poster-drink matrix. Like some of the better things i have believed to have thought or done, it came just like that, it rolled out of my head. Some of stuff i read here is quite uniquye. Maybe that's where it came from: to each, his most-appropriate-own-to-share.
I would have to think hard about recurring handles that i don't care much for on LR. And even then, most of the time they offer an interesting even if somewhat random Reality Check of sorts. I think that's why i visit, read and participate here quite often. The Quality of Thought seems rare.
The other thing that i like is that there is an unexplainable stimulus to post without obsessive editing.
This I like very much because it makes exchanges conversational but lasting; a very functional collective intelligence tool which takes the pressure off the written word as i grew up with it, let alone our victorian counterparts.
In fact, thinking back to the poster-drink matrix, after changing Runningart's drink to a milkshake or smoothie, i was really tempted to do some editing: for example change "coffee" for "decaf" with wejo and rojo, and maybe make a few additions (skuj and running dogg who have actually stopped fighting here deserve at least some egg nogg of peace or something similiar...) but preferred to just stay with the spontaneity of it...
Anyway, again i'm glad if it was worth a laugh. I've laughed a lot on this board. Happy to return some.
Way longish post. Must be the non-running.
Thoughts all well taken. I suspect that tracina sting will be a reckoning point for a long time to come.
AM. Timm's Hill, 12.6 miles. Temps in mid 50's and overcast. Fish found it to be a far more runner friendly day, so the tempo was quicker. The earthy smell,golden maple leaves, flushing grouse, and mirror still lakes all tell of Falls full embrace.
No running last 3 days, no particular reason. The racing season has finished so I am just playing around until I smell some more looming races. Today I went and chased waterfowl around the lake in my kyak. 50mins of solid work, it's still more muscle than aerobic as my stroke isn't efficient enough to get in a good groove just yet.
Nice drizzly morning. I caused a pelican and 3 black swans to perform intervals up and down the lake.
Yesterday I took myself out to the Dargile forest for a solid 2hrs plus on the mtn bike.
We will be heading off for a few days tomorrow, using an accom. prize won at a race last year. The area where we are going is running heaven. Hopefully I will get a few opportunities to get out and run.
Driske, your recent marathon has inspired me to think seriously about running my own marathon. From my house to the Tooborac shop and back (via the forest and back roads)is 42kms. I may just get out and do it a couple of times soon. I may even get my first marathon victory, especially if I can't talk anyone into joining me. The beautiful old bluestone Tooby pub will be a handy refreshment station if I pull out after 1/2 way.
today: AM went to buy paper and croissants for the women in the house with Ed early morning, good half hour walk;
then on foot to school: boys vs girls. Got trashed, but we counted the puddles and manholes and jumped the puddles.
Walked back with bride
Lunchtime: 6k wu with Filippo and Christian, then a couple 500s, not warm yet, so another 3k wu, then 1 k tempo and one, last, blistering 500 which felt really good.
MOARG -534
For a fellow that used to have an entrenched work ethic, I've become quite the dawdler as of late.
Got hooked by one of those "changes in attitudes, changes in latitudes" Jimmy Buffett remarked about in song.
Still managed an AM 3.4mile, and a PM 10K at marathon pace.
Is that bluestone pub made of a bluestone similar to the pieces found in Stonehenge??
Geeez, it would be great to drop everything for a couple weeks and come down to run that Tooborac route with you.
93 minutes felt good
tough to get in the desired activity now that vacation is in the rear view mirror......still i worked in a pair of 20'-ish runs yesterday accompanying the gang to and from a nearby hill loop.....good news: i was able to stay with them.....bad news: got eaten alive by mosquitoes......could be back-to-back days today with a short jog planned......we'll see......the weekend looms...
driske,
along the "if we couldnt laugh we would all go insane" Buffettism, please enjoy a melody and rhythmn (i think you will like) about this dude Alex (Mediterrannean Bluegrass guitarist) who just wants to sit in the bath tub all day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdMXgdmF-CU
today: 50 mins walk to school, heavy bike commuting, 45 minute run with Franco and Fabio in Villa P, very very quick lunch, 1hr kids athletics, relentless.
-533 to MoarG
-532 to MOARG
today: kids athletics.