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avondale training journal, starting Dec. 2018 (comments welcome)
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avondale
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Week of Mar. 27 - Apr. 2, 2023
This was the fifteenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race.
Training is still going well. Since coming back from spring break, I've gotten right into the very busy second half of the semester, which is stressful. Sigh.
Monday
Friday after work:
Health
No new developments on the headache. Still not so bad some days and worse others. So far, the new med my neurologist put me on doesn't seem to have done much, but I haven't finished ramping up yet.
This was the fifteenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race.
Training is still going well. Since coming back from spring break, I've gotten right into the very busy second half of the semester, which is stressful. Sigh.
Monday
- Before breakfast: foam rolling and stretching
- In evening: walk on treadmill
- time: 43:52
- distance: 2.42 mi
- average pace: 18:08
- incline: 0%
- Before breakfast: Workout 3
- 3 x 5 goblet squats with 50 lb + 20-lb vest
- 3 x 1 unassisted chin-ups (attempted)
- 3 x 5 lab pull-downs with reverse grip with 42-lb bands
- 3 x 5 pull-overs with 30 lb
- 3 x 5 hamstring slides with 12 lb
- 3 x 5 straight-arm press-downs with 13-lb band
- After work:
- Tempo intervals on trail: 10 min easy + 3 x (10 min tempo + 2 min walk) + 10 min easy
- T+D 85, no effect; T 54 F
- time: 56:01
- distance: 4.64 mi
- tempo splits: 10:52, 10:48, 10:21
- elevation gain: 329 ft (corrected)
- route: Northwest Branch Trail
- Tempo intervals on trail: 10 min easy + 3 x (10 min tempo + 2 min walk) + 10 min easy
- Before breakfast: core workout
- 1 60-sec plank
- 20 starfish
- 20 dead bugs
- 20 slo-mo mountain climbers
- 20 each side flutter kicks
- 20 bicycle crunches with hold
- 5 10-sec hollow-body holds
- 2 30-sec side planks
- 20 double leg lift/lowers
- 20 each side running high knee
- In evening: 2-hr tennis doubles match - my partner and I lost 6-2, 6-2.
Friday after work:
- 60 min easy on trail
- T+D 106, 0.5% effect. T 64 F.
- time: 1:00:00
- distance: 4.64 mi
- average pace: 12:56 (GAP ave pace 12:53)
- splits: 13:01, 12:33, 14:14, 12:28, 12:03
- ave HR: 133 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 132 ft (corrected)
- route: Rachel Carson Greenway Trail
- comments: I don't run this trail much because in the summer/fall, a lot of it is very brushy, and I don't need to load myself up with ticks. But right now, the brushy plants haven't grown yet.
- Before lunch:
- 90 min easy on trail
- T+D 119, 1% effect. T 61 F. Rained first 50 min and sunny the last 20 min.
- time: 1:30:00
- distance: 6.73 mi
- average pace: 13:22 (GAP ave pace 13:07)
- splits: 12:54, 12:39, 13:53, 14:23, 13:38, 13:33, 12:17
- ave HR: 138 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 428 ft (corrected)
- route: Valley Trail, Rock Creek National Park
- 90 min easy on trail
- Before dinner: treadmill walking
- time: 1:26:41
- distance: 4.88 mi
- average pace: 17:46
- incline: 0%
- 240 min LR on trail
- T+D 80, no effect. T 46 F to start 60F at end
- time: 4:00:05
- distance: 18.04 mi
- average pace: 13:18 (GAP ave pace 12:51)
- splits: 13:09, 12:47, 12:59, 13:30, 12:14, 13:31, 13:53, 13:25, 13:32, 13:19, 12:34, 14:40, 12:28, 13:21, 12:34, 13:42, 13:50, 14:00
- ave HR: 141 BPM - just below my target range
- elevation gain: 1614 ft (corrected)
- route: Seneca Greenway and Schaeffer Farms Trails
- comments: I took 1.5L of water + Nuun and 1L of water. I thought about halfway through that my hydration reservoir was leaking because the back of my lower shirt and shorts was really wet, along with the bottom of the hydration vest. However, I ran out of the 1.5L in the reservoir at about the same time as last week (maybe a smidgen earlier), so it's not clear. Maybe for some reason I had a lot of condensation on the outside of the reservoir for some reason. (I always fill it with ice cubes, then add water.)
- comments: I ate two Honey Stinger waffles, one sleeve of GU Chews, and one serving of Swedish fish.
- comments: I noticed when I got home (before showering) that my forehead, cheeks, neck, and chest were covered with dried-up salt. This also happened last week, but I forgot to record it. I did not think I was sweating THAT much, given the temperature. I had lots of salt crusted all over my hydration vest last week - a bit less this week. (The rain on Saturday gave it a wash!)
- comments: I tripped and fell lightly twice and tripped and almost-fell once. No big deal for some scrapes, but the first two times I wrenched my right glute a bit trying to catch myself and the last time I wrenched more my right hamstring. Sigh. Hopefully nothing serious. I'm walking ok after, but we'll see tomorrow.
Health
No new developments on the headache. Still not so bad some days and worse others. So far, the new med my neurologist put me on doesn't seem to have done much, but I haven't finished ramping up yet.
avondale
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Week of Apr. 3 - 9, 2023
This was the sixteenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race. It's getting close!
I suspected after last week's long run that my hydration reservoir was leaking. With some investigating, I discovered that yes, it was. I'd been using that reservoir since about 2014, so I suppose I got my money's worth on it. Fortunately I had another, newer reservoir of the same side that I could switch to. Funny thing - my liquid lasted longer this week! LOL
I mentioned that last week during my long run, I had some trip-and-catches (where I didn't fall, but caught myself) that yanked my right glute and hamstring. It turns out that that last one (in the last half-mile of the run!) really did a number on my hamstring.
I have done some informal researching over the past ~15 years, and I think I've probably had a mild case of high hamstring tendinopathy. Over 10 years ago, when I was kickboxing, I had pain in both hamstrings. I saw the doc and did PT, which was mostly stretching, but never really got the pain resolved except that I stopped doing the kicking and switched to plain boxing. However, the pain has come and gone during that time, especially in my right leg. (I continue to do stretching, but short/tight hamstrings definitely run in my family.) My symptoms check off all the boxes of this perfectly. I suspect that my last trip-and-catch really aggravated this problem and brought it out of hiding.
The biggest symptom for me is that it is very uncomfortable sitting in any sort of chair which actually puts weight on my sit bones - specifically the right one. My chair at work and the seat in my car are both very good at doing this. When I didn't have to sit in those seats, my pain went down quite a bit, but if I did have to sit there for awhile (like at work!), then when I got up, it took awhile for the pain to diminish.
At any rate, I have gotten a cushion with these little holes to put your sit bones over. Wow, what a difference! This has helped me a lot.
I did run more or less as planned, but I skipped one run for the week. The hamstring (tendon) is improving. I think I should be fine to do my marathon: the decreased running leading up to it is helpful, and then I had already planned to take two weeks off from running afterward.
Monday
Health
The headache has been about the same with ups and downs. I avoided some tennis this week because of my hamstring, and I wonder if that's helped keep my neck from being too strained? I still haven't heard from the pain management doc, so I called and left a message. Not optimistic.
This was the sixteenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race. It's getting close!
I suspected after last week's long run that my hydration reservoir was leaking. With some investigating, I discovered that yes, it was. I'd been using that reservoir since about 2014, so I suppose I got my money's worth on it. Fortunately I had another, newer reservoir of the same side that I could switch to. Funny thing - my liquid lasted longer this week! LOL
I mentioned that last week during my long run, I had some trip-and-catches (where I didn't fall, but caught myself) that yanked my right glute and hamstring. It turns out that that last one (in the last half-mile of the run!) really did a number on my hamstring.
I have done some informal researching over the past ~15 years, and I think I've probably had a mild case of high hamstring tendinopathy. Over 10 years ago, when I was kickboxing, I had pain in both hamstrings. I saw the doc and did PT, which was mostly stretching, but never really got the pain resolved except that I stopped doing the kicking and switched to plain boxing. However, the pain has come and gone during that time, especially in my right leg. (I continue to do stretching, but short/tight hamstrings definitely run in my family.) My symptoms check off all the boxes of this perfectly. I suspect that my last trip-and-catch really aggravated this problem and brought it out of hiding.
The biggest symptom for me is that it is very uncomfortable sitting in any sort of chair which actually puts weight on my sit bones - specifically the right one. My chair at work and the seat in my car are both very good at doing this. When I didn't have to sit in those seats, my pain went down quite a bit, but if I did have to sit there for awhile (like at work!), then when I got up, it took awhile for the pain to diminish.
At any rate, I have gotten a cushion with these little holes to put your sit bones over. Wow, what a difference! This has helped me a lot.
I did run more or less as planned, but I skipped one run for the week. The hamstring (tendon) is improving. I think I should be fine to do my marathon: the decreased running leading up to it is helpful, and then I had already planned to take two weeks off from running afterward.
Monday
- Before breakfast: foam rolling and stretching
- After work: walk outside
- time: 1:02:27
- distance: 2.98 mi
- average pace: 20:58
- elevation gain: 152 ft (corrected)
- Before breakfast: core workout, cut short for time
- 1 60-sec plank
- 20 starfish
- 20 dead bugs
- 20 slo-mo mountain climbers
- 20 each side flutter kicks
- 20 bicycle crunches with hold
- 5 10-sec hollow-body holds
- After work:
- 50 min tempo ramps
- T+D 134, 2.5% effect. T 81 F
- time: 50:00
- distance: 4.49 mi
- average pace: 11:09 (GAP ave pace 11:08)
- splits: 11:39, 10:56, 11:04, 10:57, 11:00, 11:08
- elevation gain: 348 ft (corrected)
- route: neighborhood loop 2
- comments: The hamstring was bothering me at first, but then it got warmed up.
- 50 min tempo ramps
- Before breakfast: upper body workout - I didn't want to work my legs with the hamstring issue
- 3 x 1 unassisted pull-ups (attempted)
- 3 x 5 lat pull-downs with 42-lb bands
- 3 x 5 bench presses with 67.5 lb
- 3 x 5 shoulder presses with 25 lb per arm
- 3 x 5 each arm one-arm rows on bench, 30 lb
- 3 x 5 wide push-ups with 20-lb vest
- 3 x 5 parallel-bar dips
- After work:
- 50 min easy on trail
- T+D 144, 4% effect. T 86 F!!!
- time: 50:01
- distance: 3.84 mi
- average pace: 13:01 (GAP ave pace 13:00)
- splits: 12:54, 12:56, 12:53, 13:23
- ave HR: 136 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 236 ft (corrected)
- route: Northwest Branch Trail
- comments: Had a trip-and-catch on the right leg that hurt. Blah. Watch my stupid feet!
- T+D 144, 4% effect. T 86 F!!!
- 50 min easy on trail
- Before breakfast: core workout
- 1 60-sec plank
- 20 starfish
- 20 dead bugs
- 20 slo-mo mountain climbers
- 20 each side flutter kicks
- 20 bicycle crunches with hold
- 5 10-sec hollow-body holds
- 2 30-sec side planks
- 20 double leg lift/lowers
- After work: walk on treadmill
- time: 1:24:14
- distance: 4.9 mi
- average pace: 17:11
- incline: 4% to 8% and back
- comments: Thunderstorms kept me inside.
- time: 1:27:07
- distance: 4.91 mi
- average pace: 17:45
- incline: 4% to 8% and back
- comments: Decided to rest the hamstring from running on this day.
- Before lunch: walk on treadmill
- time: 1:26:50
- distance: 4.9 mi
- average pace: 17:43
- incline: 0%
- Before dinner:
- 70 min easy on trail
- T+D 73, no effect; T 50 F
- time: 1:10:01
- distance: 5.43 mi
- average pace: 12:53 (GAP ave pace 12:42)
- splits: 12:34, 12:20, 13:34, 12:56, 13:23, 12:03
- ave HR: 138 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 324 ft (corrected)
- route: Valley Trail, Rock Creek National Park
- comments: Had a trip-and-catch on the right leg that hurt. Blah. Watch my stupid feet!
- 70 min easy on trail
- 180 min LR on trail
- T+D 85, no effect; T 57 F at start and 61 F at end
- time: 3:00:02
- distance: 13.16 mi
- average pace: 13:41 (GAP ave pace 13:14)
- splits: 13:13, 12:59, 13:45, 13:45, 12:37, 13:38, 15:23, 13:07, 13:23, 13:44, 13:54, 13:53, 13:23, 20:12
- ave HR: 144 BPM - just below my target range
- elevation gain: 1108 ft (corrected)
- route: Seneca Greenway Trail
- comments: I tripped and fell, but with the other leg so no problem except some superficial scrapes, LOL.
- comments: I purposely took this run a bit easy so that I didn't strain the hamstring. Even so, apparent it was still too much effort because my VO2max went down a point, which was annoying. It was full sun and not much shade yet, so I feel like the run took a little more effort than might be expected from the T+D.
- comments: I took 1.5L of water + Nuun and 0.5L of water. I ate one Honey Stinger waffle, one sleeve of GU Chews, and one serving of Swedish Fish.
Health
The headache has been about the same with ups and downs. I avoided some tennis this week because of my hamstring, and I wonder if that's helped keep my neck from being too strained? I still haven't heard from the pain management doc, so I called and left a message. Not optimistic.
avondale
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Week of Apr. 10 - 16, 2023
This was the seventeenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race. It's on Saturday!
I'm flying to Grand Rapids on Friday, race on Saturday, and flying home on Sunday. Right now, the forecast on race day is a high of 45 F and 50% chance of rain - I would be happy with that. I just don't want heat!
My hamstring problem that I discussed last week has improved a lot. I don't think it should be a big issue.
Monday after work:
Thursday after work:
Health
The headache continues, but maybe generally at a bit of a lower pain level. Hard to say.
This was the seventeenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race. It's on Saturday!
I'm flying to Grand Rapids on Friday, race on Saturday, and flying home on Sunday. Right now, the forecast on race day is a high of 45 F and 50% chance of rain - I would be happy with that. I just don't want heat!
My hamstring problem that I discussed last week has improved a lot. I don't think it should be a big issue.
Monday after work:
- 40 min easy
- T+D 87, no effect. T 64 F
- time: 40:00
- distance: 3.28 mi
- average pace: 12:11 (GAP ave pace 12:13)
- splits: 12:30, 12:14, 11:46, 12:22
- ave HR: 134 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 109 ft (corrected)
- route: Sligo Creek Trail
- Before breakfast: stretching
- After work: walk on treadmill
- time: 43:49
- distance: 2.38 mi
- average pace: 18:25
- incline: 0%
Thursday after work:
- 50 min easy on trail
- T+D 122, 1.5% effect, T 86 F !!!
- time: 50:01
- distance: 3.87 mi
- average pace: 12:54 (GAP ave pace 12:57)
- splits: 12:59, 12:43, 12:33, 13:28
- ave HR: 138 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 252 ft (corrected)
- route: Northwest Branch Trail
- 50 min easy on trail
- T+D 133, 2.5% effect, T 79 F
- time: 50:01
- distance: 3.89 mi
- average pace: 12:51 (GAP ave pace 12:50)
- splits: 12:56, 12:51, 13:08, 12:28
- ave HR: 135 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 84 ft (corrected)
- route: Rachel Carson Greenway Trail
- Before lunch:
- 60 min easy on trail
- T+D 133, 2.5% effect, T 70 F
- time: 1:00:00
- distance: 4.46 mi
- average pace: 13:27 (GAP ave pace 13:19)
- splits: 13:14, 13:18, 13:14, 14:06, 13:17
- ave HR: 142 BPM - just above my target range
- elevation gain: 230 ft (corrected)
- route: Valley Trail, Rock Creek National Park
- comments: It was so, so humid - I could not keep my HR down.
- 60 min easy on trail
- In evening: 2-hr tennis doubles match - my partner and I lost 4-6, 6-0, 1-0.
- 120 min LR on trail
- T+D 137, 3% effect, T 79 F
- time: 2:00:00
- distance: 8.85 mi
- average pace: 13:34 (GAP ave pace 13:08)
- splits: 13:49, 13:38, 13:47, 13:40, 13:14, 12:48, 13:34, 13:25, 14:15
- ave HR: 142 BPM - below my target range
- elevation gain: 784 ft (corrected)
- route: Seneca Greenway Trail
- comments: I took 1.5L of water + Nuun. I ate one sleeve of GU Chews.
- comments: It was very humid but fortunately it wasn't too sunny. I was really concerned about the high T+D draining me way too much with just a week until the race, so I tried to be conservative on my effort level. I think this worked ok, since I finished with some gas in the tank.
Health
The headache continues, but maybe generally at a bit of a lower pain level. Hard to say.
GollyGadget
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Have fun this weekend!
Herding_Cats
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I'm glad the weather has cooled off for you from what we had last week; it was in the 80s, and soooo windy! Good luck with your race!
striker1064
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Have a great race!!
nancipants
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Good luck on your race!
WillRunForPizza
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Good luck on Saturday!
michigandergirl
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Have a great race!!! I'm bummed I won't be around Saturday to meet up with you - I'll be in the Lansing area for baseball. Hoping the rain holds off so it doesn't get too muddy, but temps should be great for running. Can't wait to hear about it!
avondale
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Thanks!
avondale
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Thanks! But too bad you won't be around. Maybe another time - Michigan has a lot of good trail races.
avondale
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Week of Apr. 17 - 21, 2023 - pre-race
This was the eighteenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race. It's tomorrow, as I write this sitting in my hotel room!
I flew into Grand Rapids today, got my rental car, got checked into my hotel, and got a few groceries. I went to the state park where the race will be and did an hour walk on the trail.
Currently the hourly forecast has about a 33% chance of ran from 2 - 5am. Temperatures drop from 50 F at midnight to 42 F (windchill of 39 F) at 8:00am - the race starts at 7am. Then the temperature climbs to 47-48 F, but the windchill will still be several degrees cooler. I think I'm probably going to go with my t-shirt instead of tank top tomorrow, mostly because of the windchill, but we'll see how it looks in the morning.
I thought I'd get my week summary done before I do my race recap. This week was another hugely busy one for me at work, so I didn't do my usual morning strength training - which probably wasn't a bad thing before the race. But unfortunately I also didn't get any extra sleep this week because between April 13 - 26, my students are remotely controlling telescopes in Utah and Australia for their semester project. I like to be online when they are starting the observing, since that is when the most problems occur, and so that means being awake midnight to 12:30am (for Utah start) and 7 - 7:30am (for Australia start), which really means short nights of sleep. But that's life, and I'd be fooling myself to think I would otherwise have gotten lots of extra sleep pre-race, because I never do.
Monday after work: 2-hr tennis doubles round-robin
Tuesday after work:
Health
So my pain management doc and my neurologist STILL haven't gotten around to talking to each other. The pain management doc says he is out of ideas and he would be willing to try the same procedure again, but in a different one of his offices with a different machine (that's oversimplifying) against the possibility that by freaky coincidence the correct nerves were not "deactivated" by the recent procedure. I'm dubious of the worth of this, and at any rate, I can't carve out the time for it until my semester is over. Maybe they will TALK to each other by then. One of the nurses from the pain management group has been keeping me updated, and he's really apologetic and frustrated about how the two docs are not managing to talk.
Interestingly, my headache pain has not been quite as bad lately. There are several possibilities for this (beyond just coincidence). At the last visit with the neurologist, he had me restart a prior medicine with the intention of ramping it up to a higher level than I had tried previously - and I've gotten up to the higher levels. Second, I've not been playing a lot of tennis lately (mostly just luck of my match scheduling), and while I know that tennis bothers my neck and shoulders immediately afterward, maybe it's also contributing to the overall pain level. Third, because my work has been so busy, I haven't been doing much strength training the last couple of weeks, which is sort of like the tennis with the effect it has on my neck/shoulders. So who knows?
Race tomorrow!
This was the eighteenth week of an 18-week training plan that has the Hurt the Dirt Trail Marathon on April 22 as my next goal race. It's tomorrow, as I write this sitting in my hotel room!
I flew into Grand Rapids today, got my rental car, got checked into my hotel, and got a few groceries. I went to the state park where the race will be and did an hour walk on the trail.
Currently the hourly forecast has about a 33% chance of ran from 2 - 5am. Temperatures drop from 50 F at midnight to 42 F (windchill of 39 F) at 8:00am - the race starts at 7am. Then the temperature climbs to 47-48 F, but the windchill will still be several degrees cooler. I think I'm probably going to go with my t-shirt instead of tank top tomorrow, mostly because of the windchill, but we'll see how it looks in the morning.
I thought I'd get my week summary done before I do my race recap. This week was another hugely busy one for me at work, so I didn't do my usual morning strength training - which probably wasn't a bad thing before the race. But unfortunately I also didn't get any extra sleep this week because between April 13 - 26, my students are remotely controlling telescopes in Utah and Australia for their semester project. I like to be online when they are starting the observing, since that is when the most problems occur, and so that means being awake midnight to 12:30am (for Utah start) and 7 - 7:30am (for Australia start), which really means short nights of sleep. But that's life, and I'd be fooling myself to think I would otherwise have gotten lots of extra sleep pre-race, because I never do.
Monday after work: 2-hr tennis doubles round-robin
Tuesday after work:
- 50 min easy on trail
- T+D 90, no effect, T 70 F
- time: 50:00
- distance: 3.88 mi
- average pace: 12:52 (GAP ave pace 12:54)
- splits: 13:12, 12:49 12:43, 12:44
- ave HR: 134 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 255 ft (corrected)
- route: Northwest Branch Trail
- 40 min easy on trail
- T+D 98, no effect, T 73 F
- time: 40:01
- distance
- T+D 98, no effect, T 73 F
- time: 40:01
- distance: 3.07 mi
- average pace: 13:02 (GAP ave pace 12:59)
- splits: 13:26, 12:43, 13:00, 12:20
- ave HR: 134 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 57 ft (corrected)
- route: Rachel Carson Greenway Trail
- : 3.07 mi
- average pace: 13:02 (GAP ave pace 12:59)
- splits: 13:26, 12:43, 13:00, 12:20
- ave HR: 134 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 57 ft (corrected)
- route: Rachel Carson Greenway Trail
- 30 min easy
- T+D 141, 3.5% effect, T 82 F
- time: 30:01
- distance: 2.5 mi
- average pace: 12:01 (GAP ave pace 12:02)
- splits: 12:02, 12:01, 12:00
- ave HR: 135 BPM - within my target range
- elevation gain: 70 ft (corrected)
- route: Sligo Creek Trail
- comments: So happy these were not the weather conditions for the race! Phew!
- time: 56:17
- distance: 2.64 mi
- average pace: 21:20
Health
So my pain management doc and my neurologist STILL haven't gotten around to talking to each other. The pain management doc says he is out of ideas and he would be willing to try the same procedure again, but in a different one of his offices with a different machine (that's oversimplifying) against the possibility that by freaky coincidence the correct nerves were not "deactivated" by the recent procedure. I'm dubious of the worth of this, and at any rate, I can't carve out the time for it until my semester is over. Maybe they will TALK to each other by then. One of the nurses from the pain management group has been keeping me updated, and he's really apologetic and frustrated about how the two docs are not managing to talk.
Interestingly, my headache pain has not been quite as bad lately. There are several possibilities for this (beyond just coincidence). At the last visit with the neurologist, he had me restart a prior medicine with the intention of ramping it up to a higher level than I had tried previously - and I've gotten up to the higher levels. Second, I've not been playing a lot of tennis lately (mostly just luck of my match scheduling), and while I know that tennis bothers my neck and shoulders immediately afterward, maybe it's also contributing to the overall pain level. Third, because my work has been so busy, I haven't been doing much strength training the last couple of weeks, which is sort of like the tennis with the effect it has on my neck/shoulders. So who knows?
Race tomorrow!
prncssjas
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Good luck at your race tomorrow and welcome to Michigan! We love runners!!!
Enjoy every minute and can’t wait to hear how it goes.
nancipants
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Good luck tomorrow!
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