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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 12, 2019 6:13:03 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies, why do I get the feeling your commute doesn’t just follow the obvious and direct route each way? The route to work is fairly direct. The ride home is more of an adventure.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 12, 2019 6:39:02 GMT -8
I found out the legs I'll be running on my upcoming relay race are relatively tame as far as elevation gain, but one section has 1,500' of elevation LOSS over 1.5 miles of gravel road.
M: I woke up with a pulled/spasming muscle in my middle back. Not too bad, but annoying. Move about 20 heavy bags of lead remediation waste into drums. Tweaked my back more. Run 5 hilly miles to prep for relay race and test hamstring. Relatively slow, but I felt good. Tu: Rest.
----Short Vacation in Adirondacks---
W: Drive to camp. Bike 5 miles to explore the area. Trail run 3 miles. I ran through around 1,000 spider webs and the mosquitoes and deerflies were fighting each other over places to bite me. Th: Spent all day at a water park. A lot of walking and climbing up small hills. Mountain bike 3 miles on gravel roads with my daughter. F: Hike 4 miles up Blue Mountain with the kids. 1,500' of elevation gain. They crushed it! We were moving at my 10-year-old son's pace, and my Strava app showed we were (he was) the 50th fastest of 150 Strava users to have climbed the mountain. I wouldn't have gone much faster by myself. Mountain bike 3 miles on gravel roads with my son. Sa: 250 yard morning swim. Could have gone further but I was pressed for time. Walk around town. Hike 2 miles up McCauley Mountain (ski mountain) with the family. Around 700' of elevation gain. My son wanted to go straight up the steep and rocky "trail" beneath the chair lift... he did pretty good with route finding.
----Back Home---
Su: Light to moderate yard work all day. Run 700' feet up a steep seasonal road as prep for next weekend's relay race.
I woke up this morning with my mid-back really spasming. As of the time I'm writing this, it is beginning to release.
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 12, 2019 8:50:23 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies, hope your back cooperates soon! We spent Friday and Saturday driving from CA to Seattle and attending a family reunion, so had two rest days, but got out for an hour’s biking yesterday, which included something I’d kind of forgotten about riding around Chico: hills! I’d gotten a taste of it biking in San Francisco on Wednesday, but otherwise—not much. With my foot still out of action (plantar fasciitis), I’ve been upping the biking and swimming, and finally got the swim back up to a mile (just in time to be away and miss my swims). Broke 100 miles on the bike again last week.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 3:25:32 GMT -8
Week of 11 Aug:
Sun: Backpacking Mon: Backpacking Tue: Backpacking Wed: Backpacking Thu: Backpacking Fri: Backpacking Sat: Backpacking
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 19, 2019 7:51:35 GMT -8
M: Went to chiropractor to help with back spasm (spasms not bad, but annoying). Road run 4.5 hilly miles. It had rained just a few minutes prior, then the sun came out creating a steam bath. After the first 10 steps, my back felt OK. Hamstring just a bit tight for the last 2 miles. Pace was good. Tu: Neighborhood walk with dog as active rest. Use rollers, wands, and balls to target my spasming muscle. Seemed to work. W: Back spasm virtually gone. I thought about doing one final run, but realized the cons severely outweighed the pros. Rest/stretch/roll. Th: Neighborhood walk with dog as active rest. Stretch/roll. F: Chiropractor adjustment in the morning. Drive to Vermont. Stop to see an old high school friend on the way. Sa: 100 on 100 Relay Race:
First Leg: 7.8 miles. A gentle (imperceptible) downhill with a couple of short but steep hills thrown in. Unfortunately, the sun came out right at the start of my run and cooked me the entire way. This is one reason I hate running on roads. I started bonking (a bit) with 1.5 miles left, so I slowed my pace knowing that I still had 2 more legs to run later. Overall though, my pace was quick (for me). I typically run 8:30 miles for 3-mile runs. With my hamstring bothering me, and assuming that I'd get slower during the later runs, I submitted a 9:00 pace to the race officials. I was able to keep an 8:30 pace for 6 miles (despite the sun/overheating) and a 10:00 pace for the last 1.5 miles (which was 100' uphill). Hamstring a little tight at the end.
Second Leg: 3.5 miles. Nearly flat, with just a couple of gradual "rises". No shade whatsoever. Thankfully, a breeze kept the temperature manageable. I started at an 8:00 pace. Slowed to a 9:00 pace for the final mile. Hamstring felt good.
Right around 6:00, a big thunderstorm swept through. I love running in storms, and was hoping it would last until my next leg.
Third Leg: 4.7 mile night run. Rolling hills for the first 3, followed by a steep unrelenting 1,500' descent. Of course, the rain stopped just as I started. Very humid and stagnant air resulted in pea soup fog. My calves started twitching at 4.5 miles (hamstring was fine). I averaged an 8:30 pace.
Sunday was just lazing around in the morning, followed by the car ride home. My legs were ouchy. The first 20 steps after sitting for awhile, I looked like a baby giraffe trying to walk.
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Post by reuben on Aug 25, 2019 13:36:06 GMT -8
A few months ago a local columnist embarked upon a middle aged fitness program, apparently at the behest of his wife and daughters, who love him. I think that some of us, at one time or another, can identify with his thoughts. Excerpts follow.
...even if I don’t look much different, I feel different. In a word, better. My core — that elusive foundation of fitness — is more easily “energized.” My energized core has made doing even little things easier: walking up and down stairs, lifting flower pots, reaching to the back of the freezer to root around for an ice cream sandwich. ... I am making progress, though. I got to pull on a rope the other day. This wasn’t the rope I dream about: the one that’s as thick as an icebreaker’s hawser and is stretched across the gym for people to whip up and down like they’re trying to throttle an anaconda. This was a thinner starter rope. It was looped around a bar, and I just had to pull it toward me as fast as I could for a minute.
If you ever need your Venetian blinds raised in a hurry, I’m your man. ... I am in better shape. I’m stronger. I worry less about being unable to free myself should I get trapped under a lawn chair or an Ikea bookshelf.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 26, 2019 5:56:49 GMT -8
M: Sore from relay race. Stretch. Tu: Bike commute 19 miles. W: Neighborhood walk with dog between t-storms. Th: Bike commute 15 miles. F: Bike commute 32 miles. Commute home was hilly, including one 1,000' hill. Sa: A lot of sitting. Su: A lot of walking.
College football kicked off at noon on Saturday, and I was at the opening game (Villanova at Colgate). It was a perfect day for a football game.
We went to the Rochester Air Show on Sunday. Another beautiful day.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 9:39:25 GMT -8
Around this time of the year is my training year end. I am completing my decompression and, next week, start my training for the new year. Last year, my backpacking was kind a lax, so my training was kinda of lax. I trained, the year before, to do Shi Shi. That backpack kicked my ass. I appreciate the efforts of BorderCollieMike and my wife that got me to Shi Shi. Next year is our last Shi Shi trip for 3-5 years and I want to do it without needing to lean on others for their support. I want to feel good, at the end of the day, instead of eager to set up camp to go to bed. I want to be able to enjoy the surroundings. I want to do this for each and every day. Part of the plan is, on the way up to skip the stop at Yellow Banks and continue on to Sand Point before the high tide stops us at Yellow Banks. If we continue on, we will be able to wait out the tide at Wedding Rocks and just may be able to make it to the 2 seeps at the North end of Cape Alava, on, mostly, easy ground to travel. The wildest would be to make it across the Ozette to make camp on the North end of the Ozette. This lofty goal sets the workout intensity for the coming months. Oh, the reason we want to go-hard on the way up is, then, on the way back, we take it leisure.
For 2021, we want to do an extended Chamberlain Basin Loop.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 3, 2019 8:06:15 GMT -8
A ho-hum week:
M: Bike commute 14 miles. Tu: Bike commute 14 miles. W: Nada. Th: Bike commute 8 miles. F: Bike commute 12 miles. Sa: Light activity all day long (house projects). Su: Light activity all day long (house projects).
Friday evening I went to PT for my hamstring. Apparently everything is where it should be (I feared I had detached something) and I'm healing well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2019 9:53:29 GMT -8
Week of 9/1:
Tue: Nature path walk, 2.5 hours Thur: Gym, 2+ hours weights and aerobics. Sat: Golf course hike.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 10, 2019 6:10:50 GMT -8
M: Play tennis with the family. Tu: Bike commute 14 miles. W: Physical therapy for my hamstring. Th: Bike commute 15 miles. F: Bike commute 9 miles. PT. Sa: Light activity all day long (house projects). Run 1.5 miles with my son. Su: Light activity all day long (house projects).
A few weeks ago, my wife somehow got a staph infection. Last week, I got it. My case is worse than hers, and in worse areas (neck/jawline at hairline). Not fun.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 11:52:00 GMT -8
walkswithblackflies , get better. Week of 8 Sept: Tue: nature Path. Fri: Nature Path. Sat: Landmine and full cablecross, light weights. getting use to doing a cablecross and a landmine together.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 16, 2019 7:07:35 GMT -8
M: Bike commute 17 miles to/from PT. Tu: Bike commute 14 miles. Neighborhood walk with dog. W: Nada. Th: Nada. F: Nada. Sa: Light activity all day long (house projects). Neighborhood walk with dog. Play tennis with friends. Su: Light activity (house projects). Tired/run down.
The oral antibiotics weren't working, so I got a topical antibiotic cream. That's working, but it has really limited my activity, as sweat will wash it off. At least the infection is healing now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 7:35:43 GMT -8
Week of 15 Sept: Tue: landmine and cable cross. Thu: Golf course hike. Sat: Nature Path
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Post by msdoolittle on Sept 17, 2019 10:33:09 GMT -8
Gah, sorry to hear about the staph infection, walkswithblackflies! It sounds miserable. Hope you're on the mend. So, I signed up for a 15k on October 6th. We'll see how this goes. I just started running regularly again a few weeks ago. I'm still not running great distances. I suspect the upcoming race will not be spectacular. lol But do it, I will. So, this is how my last week looked. M: Yoga 1 hour Tu: Run 2.1 miles. I also saw a mountain lion cruising the trail I was on this morning. Thought at first it was a coyote and then thought it was awfully long and lean with quite a long tail to be a coyote. He crossed the trail and went into a cow pasture. We sat and watched each other for a bit before I moved on. W: Rest Th: Run 2.5 miles. F: Walked the dogs 3 miles around our hilly neighborhood Sa: Run 4 miles Su: Rest, light house work, Grocery shopping, multiple trips between parking lot and camp at Pickle Gulch.
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