55'Saturday.....right calf got a bit tight shortly before the turnaround.....slowed and ran on the grass shoulder for most of the way back.....it got a bit tighter during the day, so I decided not to run on Sunday.....no time to run today, so back-to-back rest days.....hopefully I'll be able to give it a go on Tuesday....congrats, tpcb, on the pr....
WE must find a solution for this calf of yours SO2.
Today: rest day
Cruised by a Snapping turtle laying her eggs at the roadside this morning. This resplendently ugly, primordial, reptile paid me no mind whatsoever.
55 min. for 6.25 miles.
SO2. This recurrent theme of the sore calf is troubling, even from this distance. Perhaps it's time to start a thread,
and enlist the collective wisdom of letsrun to suggest some treatment options.???
nice 800 tpcb
Thankyou Bushman. Planning on improving, if i might...
today, all day, in Florence:
- about 1hr total on the treadmill in different installments
- 48 minutes quickie at the Cascine park. Some beautiful stretches grass before it came thundering down.
Yesterday: Elliptical for 10 min.: 3 circuits of various machines in our HS weight room. 10 min. elliptical, last 2 min. intensely. Rewarded with a pleasantly fatigued body today, heel pain down at "2/10". I still loathe machines.
MOARG one and all.
THis morning: lots of activites but little running.
Before dinner 9k in Le Cascine park
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a.m. 4 miles easy
p.m. 1 hour circuit training; 30 minutes of 20 sec strides @ 5k pace, 20 sec walk recov
1 Hour walk in the new Skecher Shape Up's. 10 min. cooldown on elliptical machine.
weds. Rest
PM; 29 mile bike ride. The rain quit for a day. Clover scented fields undulated beneath steady winds. Temp.83F.
Things are good. Summertime, and the living is easy
My heart does go out the residents of the Gulf States.
Corporate hubris apparently knows no bounds.
Mon - An hour of kyakking broken with a 17min run.
Tue - Stopped on my way home from work and rode the mtb for an hour (into the dark) mostly rolling dirt roads, one steep rough trail.
Wed - Headed out into the Sugarloaf Ranges near Axedale for a planned hour run. Too many fun trails to explore so it ended up 77mins. Some good pace on the smooth sections. Plenty of grunt on some very sharp rough ascents.
Thu - Single figure (celsius) temps and torrential rain kept me indoors. An hour on the windtrainer before an afternoon shift. Included 2 x 9min. gear progression/regression and 4 x 3min efforts @ about 80%.
Today - Braved single digits (but no rain) to tackle Lake Eppalock in the kyak. I was the only human out there, a few galahs and corellas in the dead trees. Landed at 1/2 way and did a 20 min run (and take a few photos).I had literally 100s of roos for company on the run. An hour of paddling all up.
Racing the next 2 days. I will probably also squeeze in an hour or so on the mountain bike.
Such a huge catastrophe Bushman, the reports we are getting over here probably only give us a small glimpse of the devastating affects. The long term results may be even more dire.
had planned to run Tuesday PM, but waited until Wed to give the calf a bit more healing time.....did a conservatively paced (a.k.a. slower than usual) 42' with much on the grassy shoulder.....calf was ok, but not great.....good news is it did not tighten up post-run as much as in the past.....feels about 90% today......will go again either this PM or tomorrow AM.....hoping for 50'-ish.....
Going to take a 2 week forced rest from all running. Hopefully the heel will respond with a long term mend.
3 mi. MTB on rough stock trails. Feeling yesterdays ride in the quads.
Ran again on Thursday 17 in Florence Cascine park (after a wicked whirlwind uprooted a whole bunch of century old trees!) for a very surreal 9k
Friday 18 rest, train ride to Rome
Will try to sneak something in today.
Bushman, whats with the heel ?
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21 mile bike on FRT@ Green Bay.
The heel has been a sore spot for nearly a year now. Not sure if it wants to manifest itself as plantar fasciitis.
Shame to lose those trees.
Saturday wound up a rest day, family stuff. Got some good sleep.
Sunday,
Boccea Running (out of season) XC:
small weekend desperados event on a farm on the outskirts of Rome, however very tough 2x5.3km loop with some restless, very energetic young amateurs to impress the rest of us. Taught wind throughout. Went out too fast, two wiser younger runners passed me on the uphills (and coasted behind me on the downhills - i have to so something about my competitive aggressiveness) still held on to an agegroup win (could be the first ever), maybe 12th overall, gifted with a local
prosciutto ham sandwich, fizzy water, a beachbag, beautycase, and auto-tanning suncream. As in the gook sticks and changes your skin color.
The dude on the stage unnecessarily apologized for what seemed an impossible-to-predict sunbarbie-bias on the prize by a local sports goods store. I said: "Dude, we are just here to have fun. If i were in it for the prize-worth, i would be at a salad bar in Vegas."
Some American tourist out of the blue (from Philly actually) won M55. His wife was digi-snapping like a photo-op in Cannes. It just gave the morning that cosmo touch.
Feeling somewhat random today.
Hope something random happens and Bushman's heel heals.
HEAL, HEAL! I HEEEAL YA!
But the only Wizard i know used to be in OZ......
tpcb, That race recap was on a par with mopak at his gnarliest. Kudos. Only you could factor in a salad bar at Vegas, and convince anyone of it's relevance.
Biked AM.12miles. Last 10 minutes hard. PM:18 more miles on the bike;easy going. Daughter #1 cruised with the bro-in-law at 21MPH for nearly 2 hours. What a force to reckon with she could be, with some training.
As the great man from Tulsa often intoned"Heal, Brother, Heal!"
time trial in 15:42
51' Saturday AM.....calf was a bit tight, but manageable.....thought about doing by first back-to-back on Sunday.....actually laced them up and went about 100m before turning back.....the calf was a bit iffy and didn't want to push things.....will go again tomorrow AM.....Father's Day gift from the bride was a gift cert for 1 hour massage.....could be just what I need.....
Sunday:
twas the xc race
yesterday:
12k easy in Milan
today
gonna rest my legs
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actually yesterday was a about a 6k walk
today, so far:
2.5k walk to work