A Busy Weekend

This weekend, I was with my son most of the time. He had a lacrosse game at 2PM on Saturday, and we went to an antique fire truck muster before going over. There was equipment going back to 1840, and as recent as the 1980's, though with the real trucks, the 19-teen's was the oldest. There weren't that many, but many were quite nice. My son got involved in looking at a current heavy rescue truck. I'd seen this truck before, when I covered a wall collapse in a neighboring town about 2 years ago.
I'd given blood that morning, and the weather was hot. I wound up pretty tired.
On Sunday morning, I ran, then got cleaned up, and took my son from Sunday School to a track meet. We had about a dozen kids compete. (I coach a youth team.)There were few shining stars, but lots of solid efforts. A couple of times, I felt a bit light-headed, but otherwise seemed OK. When I weighed at the end of the day, I'd lost about 4.5 lbs., probably mostly water, but dropping that much weight that fast seems wrong. I did wind up as the big loser in the weight loss contest for the two-week period.

Not Just Sore, Marathon Sore!

That's Carlo Gabbi (sp?) of Italy as Dorando with Dorando's cup, me as Johnny Hayes with Hayes' gold medal, and Michal (rhymes with nickel) Kapral aka "The Joggler" as Tom Longboat. And, yes, I shaved the moustache to be Hayes...otherwise they might have thought I was Dorando.



Me, on the left, Bruce Kidd, the great Canadian runner of the early 1960's and an authority on Tom Longboat, and John Bryant, English author of "The Marathon Makers" at the press conference before the Toronto Waterfront Marathon.

I set a new PW for the marathon, adding about 1:31 to my previous worst, but on about 70 days of training, I can't gripe.

My Everything Hurts!

After doing some sprints on Friday evening, I spent yesterday judging a youth track meet. I helped with both the Turbo-Jav and discus. Since I had never thrown a discus before, I used the opportunity at the end of the meet to try to learn a bit more about how to do it. The result today is soreness in my thighs, back, shoulder and arm. It is that kind of good sore, you know, sore, but not too sore, feeling.

I weighed this morning, and the scale showed 188.5.

Stretching My (Current) Limits

I wasn't motvated for road mileage today, so I headed to the local hilly park. The presence of horses meant the need to dodge horse pies along with rocks and roots as I made my way for 25 minutes up and down a hilly route. The need for focus was intensified by the need to try to avoid mucky sections of the trail as an inch of rain had fallen on the area yesterday.

I feel like I got a good workout and that my feet and ankles got a tad stronger due to the uneven terrain.

Training Log / Looking Ahead

A quick recap of the last 4 days:
Tue - 6 miles - racewalk - minor arm chafing
Wed - 3 miles/run, 1 racewalk - serious thigh chafing, very high heat and humidity,
Thu - 2 miles/run, 1 walk, 1 run - serious thigh chafing, very hot and humid
Fri - 5 miles racewalk, legs felt very beat up

I have a four mile race on July 4th and a 15K on July 8th. The four should be fairly comfortable, but I'll be paying for the 15K. Both are really just "racing myself into shape" efforts, rather than real races, but at least I will be moving forward with returning myself to condition.

26

That's not 26 miles, it's 26 minutes. My first run in a while. I have a tiny bit of soreness and a tiny bit of fatigue. No biggie, but I'll probably take tomorrow off, then run again on Sat. Though the weather is supposed to be great tomorrow, so I may just go for 3 in a row. We'll see.