Describe Your Running Today, Part II

after a full day of exercise out in the cold, i think even my grandmother would have suggested it would be a good idea to take the chill out of your bone.

you should try it...

Hey, Bushman enjoy thwin cities!

I am going to be doing some spectating for a while myself.

Seriously, all this cryogenic enthusiasm in the running community is interesting but not when it interferes with common sense.

If i had ice-bathed post Berlin i think they would have found me dead of hypothermia in my hotel room.

For the weather conditions and the lack of speed i went at, hot bath and hot soup were awesome. It more like a power hike with very, very little altitude, LOL. After a cold day, heat makes sense.

Actually recap wise, it was really a shame for a couple of mishaps: last minute potties right in front of the access gates interfering with runner's flowing in?

Also the weather almost completely removed the tourist/entertainment aspect. There was enough low cloud to not be able to see the antenna in Alexander Platz!

And the park access at the start made for a lot of muddy, muddy shoes ... unavoidable i suppose. I solved by walking around barefoot and putting mine on back on the asphalt in the E section. Dried my feet with some of the old clothes thrown about and put them on at the last moment.

Still, i was totally drenched in no time at all.

So now really, Ich Bin Ein Berliner! LOL

The week gone by-----Rain was the recurrent theme. Locally we collected 8" in the gauge over a 5 day period.

Other than the fact that my ancestors immigrated from Germany, I know little of the country. The beer drinking part came so naturally for me. It must be genetic.

PM;Biked 15 very easy miles. Full fall color prevails across the countryside.

tpcb, Take time to recover; hot,cold,ossi,wessi,hiking,sprinting,barefoot,shod,straight man and troll. The letsrun circus plays on.

this morning 6:30AM

47mins walking striding in the neighbourhood. Tepid sunshine emerging.

"I can see clearer now the rain has gone..."

There wsa this comedian in Toronto that sand a parody of this that went:

"I can see clearer now my mind is gone..." Indeed it was about alcohol consumption, LOL

0700

Trenno park, 1 hour easy

30' between when the gang went off and when they came back.....no time for any more.....looking forward to the weekend when I can get in something longer.....

tpcb, spO2,

Question for you guys. The heel/foot seems stuck. i.e. not responding to rest, or therapy. Any opinions or experience with DMSO??

It's not like I'm in line to model Contador, Landis, or anybody else. I just want to get past this PF, and return to running. Your input, if any, will be appreciated.

PM; 1 mile of trails during X_C meet in town. Heel is protesting even this trifling bit of running.

Bushman

it's frustrating just to read about this.

Never touched DMSO. i will enquire about it.

maybe you should ease off again.

if you have time and energy can you make a quick recap of when the the pain/symptoms started? Reading over, may stimulate some therapeutic creativity.

AM

my favourite 2k training walk to school with kids

tpcb,

I'm about as eased off as I care to be. wikipedia has a summation of the varied uses of this chemical. A friend from the 70's lived through heavy use of this substance back when he was tallying 140-160 MPW. The only ill effect was the pungent odor"garlic", he emitted. (Well ,his wife left him but that may have been somewhat due to the high mileage and dalliance with a female protege he was coaching). Another story entirely.

Perusing my journal, I find the heel whining going back to July of 09.

AM, 4miles on foot at 10 min/mi. Full color in the hardwoods. Calm air at 40F, not a cloud in the sky.

I am the best runner in the world

a 50' and a 40' run over the weekend.....left Achilles a little tight, but no major problems.....should be able to do a small run today with the gang over tomorrow's race course....will try to dodge the rain drops.....

today

family errands

PT

rest.

Sat. 32 miles of riding the bike paths of Minneapolis.

Sunday; 12 miles of riding, during the running of the Twin Cities Marathon. Caught up with the Bro-in-law at mile 19. He finished with a 3:41.

The race of the day had to go to 45YO Mbarak Hussein of New Mexico with a 2:16. Other worldly. Conditions for marathon running were ideal.

A very durable friend and acquaintance ,Peter M. copped the M60-64 title with a 2:58. The man has a great string going with an age group win @ Chicago in 2008 (2:59 on a hot day).

He took Detroit last year, and TCM yesterday.

Today: Got a bronchial bug, feeling off. 12 road bike miles at a casual pace.

tpcb, It's beginning to concern me that mopak has been silent for this long.

yes,

i agree. Where, indeed, is mopak?

I miss his environmental running accounts...

The post-removal on this thread is getting interesting again.

It is the full moon...

today:

AM: 4k walk to school and back.

Rest, travel day.

Can't complain. And i tend not to.

Nice to know I have been missed.

I have been on night shift the last couple of weeks and my wife has been away on a clinical placement. Opportunities to post have been limited.

A catch up for the last week.

Thursday. I had to stay in Bendigo after work for 90mins as I needed to buy some new tubes and a tyre for the mtb. Was very tired by the time I arrived home, 28hrs since I woke up. Had a nice 4hrs sleep then out the door for a 100min run up on the McIvor Range. Feeling strangely good and just seemed to be rolling along effortlessly despite having accumulated 400 plus metres of elevation gain during the run. Finished with 4x100m strides.

Friday. Out on the lake in the kyak for 70 mins. This included a hard set of 3min reps with 1min recovery. Quite windy and choppy.

Saturday. A good tough 2hr mtb ride mostly up on the McIvor Range. I also added in some rough track beside Mt Ida. This spot always seems to be a place for goannas and sure enough one dashed across in front of me and then up the trunk of an ironbark. A nice big fella as long as I am tall.

Sunday. 2hr run up on the paddocks of the McHarg Range. This is a great place to run. I'm always reminded of Jack Foster running across the hilly paddocks of Rotorua.

Steep takes on a new meaning here. Because it is farmland each climb presents fabulous views. Apart from the first and last km every bit of the run is steep up or down.

Monday. One hour mtn bike, climbing over the top of the McIvor Range, steep and rocky, the new back tyre doing a great job gripping the loose terrain. Kept going to the golf course and then did 25mins barefoot running. This time of the year is magpie swooping season and they did give me a few scares. Also the spur wing plovers aggressively chased me away from their young ones. Finished with a nice easy 10min spin back home.

Tuesday. Stopped at the lake on the way home from the night shift and did 30mins paddling, lethargic.

After 4hrs sleep a 70min run up on the McIvor Range, nice and easy just to wake me up. Drove into Bendigo and joined in a 3km track race, cruised around in a sluggish 12mins or so. Also did some heavy bag work in the clubrooms before going to work.

mopak,

apart from your savy and enriched prose, and overall life experience, how could you not miss a running-dude who is dealing with "...magpie swooping season and they did give me a few scares..." ??? LOL I can just picture you coming back home and saying "hey hon, almost got struck by a magpie after McIvor!"

"Oh, mopak, are you alright? You have to stop this running in the wild: it is getting just too, too dangerous...."

today

intense bike commuting

1 hour swim

My neck still feels a little stiff from the one-arm drumming last saturday at kids athletics. Dont tell them, please...

I bought a portable 100W amplifier to connect the metronome to it so i dont always have to do the native thing. 100W isn't much, but i tried it full volume and it sounded pretty darned loud. Thats the most they had with a rechargeable battery.

ah mopak,

i'll confess to being a bit worried about you there. Maybe too many watchings of Crocodile Dundee. Maybe too many encounters with territorial male kangaroos, brown snakes, tormented rivers, cliff faces,wild fires, or off their meds patients.

In any case it was a relief and a pleasure to read your most recent action filled post.

tpcb, Easy on the percussion. The Bride maybe able to offer some pointers at MOARG.

Locally;

Monday; rest

Tuesday; AM;43 Miles on the road bikes. Towing Chris and Gary. So many mashed snakes on the road way. Sad. Losing their lives trying to get some fall heat off the warm pavement.

4 roosting bald eagles watched us pass.

PM; 15 miles solo ride. Fall weather at it's finest. The recent dry week has the streams returning to their channels.

today 0630 AM

11km easy with BeppeG around the neighbourhood.

he got a mild case of marathon fever.

OJ and croissants and a national sports daily a the cafe'.

No wildlife but a reasonable mitteleuropean, metropolitan start of the day.

The Bride as The MOARG Adviser sounds awesome.

20' yesterday on the 'mill.....reminded me of the dead of winter.....yuck.....got to get back outside before it's too late......Friday?.....