Every Wish That We Put Into Motion.... (comments welcome!)

[Herding_Cats]

And then the wheels fell off completely.

This week was supposed to be rest/4/4-ish (with hill repeats)/4/rest/10/4(with hill strides) which comes out to around 26mi.

It ended up being: track meet/rain/rain/4-ish with hill repeats/preschool field trip and then pack for camping/walk (and fall)/4.5mi which came out to around 12mi.

So yeah. It rained and was cold all week, was cold for camping until today when we packed up to come home. While we were walking between spots along the lakeshore where DS1, DH, and DD were fishing, I rolled my ankle on a root and fell. My leg is still sore if I push on it, but there's no bruising, my ankle is fine (it didn't try to stop itself from rolling at all), and I managed to not fully extend my arms to catch myself. *sigh* The campground is the one that is adjacent to the trail I've been running, so I know how uneven and root-y that trail is!

Those hill repeats though. I wasn't looking forward to them or that run in general (too many days in a row off!) but after the first one I was like oooooooh, I feel STRONG. But then the next day my quads were quad-y. Soooo yeah.

Today was finally warm enough that we set up DD's new inflatable shark waterslide (from Costco); drained, cleaned, and refilled the hot tub; and I got bunch of stuff done in the garden. I should go walk on the treadmill tonight but I think I'm just gonna roll with where I'm at in the plan. This week is scheduled to be a "cut back" week, so I'm just planning on extending my midweek runs by a mile, and keep the weekend longruns their scheduled lengths since DS2 has state finals on Saturday.


ETA: I got DS2 to run on the trail for his "on your own" scheduled run for track this morning. I asked him how it went and his response was a succinct, "Hills." Apparently he also fell but "not bad" when he clipped a root. On a downhill. Hopefully he's not scarred for life because we are trying to recruit a kid for XC in the fall and he lives really near that trail and it's also centrally located for about half his team. And they should run it in the summer because they need more hills in their life.

 

[avondale]

Honestly, I trip and fall just as much walking/hiking as I do trail running. The constant is usually "not paying attention".

Once, my DH and I were walking out of the asphalt parking lot to the trail for a hike - NOT EVEN ON THE TRAIL YET - and I tripped in a hole in the asphalt (not paying attention!) and munged up several spots on my knees with copious blood loss (all superficial) - and I get faint at the sight of too much blood, so I had to sit with my head down on the sidewalk until that passed and then we had to go find copious amounts of band-aids and ended up calling off the hike for the day!

I did something similar about 20 feet into the trail on another hike several years later, but fortunately there wasn't as much blood, so no fainting and we continued after band-aid application!

Hope the ankle continues to not be too bad.

 

[Herding_Cats]

Checking in with a few quick items, and also post-annual-physical.

No concerns from my dr. Keep doing what I've been doing. I did mention my exhaustion that seems to be happening at the start of the luteal phase of my cycle and asked if it seemed to coincide with my zoloft use for PMDD/SD, but I haven't taken it in 4 months, so that's not it. She thinks that I am "just" having a strong reaction to my hormone level fluctuations.

We are working through the end-of-summer schedule and planning some camping trips. Our XC team has done a family camping trip in the UP (Upper Peninsula for anyone who may not be familiar with the Michigan jargon) that includes a meet on Thursday or Friday. The past few years we have only gone for 3 days, but have discussed going for a week since we are hauling the camping 5-6 hours each direction for the trip and it would be nice to have enough days to actually relax. So I looked at the dates. Yall. If we do end up going on this trip it's gonna be:
Saturday: huge meet that our school hosts and parents work (course marshals, catching kids at the finish line, etc)
Sunday: my trail race
Monday or Tuesday: get in the car and go camping for a week. Which would include hiking. I'm cringing a little bit thinking about it.
The following Sunday or Monday: come home
Tuesday: first day of school


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Coming home in a month….

 

[col1]

Checking in with a few quick items, and also post-annual-physical.

No concerns from my dr. Keep doing what I've been doing. I did mention my exhaustion that seems to be happening at the start of the luteal phase of my cycle and asked if it seemed to coincide with my zoloft use for PMDD/SD, but I haven't taken it in 4 months, so that's not it. She thinks that I am "just" having a strong reaction to my hormone level fluctuations.

We are working through the end-of-summer schedule and planning some camping trips. Our XC team has done a family camping trip in the UP (Upper Peninsula for anyone who may not be familiar with the Michigan jargon) that includes a meet on Thursday or Friday. The past few years we have only gone for 3 days, but have discussed going for a week since we are hauling the camping 5-6 hours each direction for the trip and it would be nice to have enough days to actually relax. So I looked at the dates. Yall. If we do end up going on this trip it's gonna be:
Saturday: huge meet that our school hosts and parents work (course marshals, catching kids at the finish line, etc)
Sunday: my trail race
Monday or Tuesday: get in the car and go camping for a week. Which would include hiking. I'm cringing a little bit thinking about it.
The following Sunday or Monday: come home
Tuesday: first day of school


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Coming home in a month….

What a lovely puppy congrats

That trip and schedule wow I am tired just reading about it.

 

[Herding_Cats]

That trip and schedule wow I am tired just reading about it.

me too!!!

 

[nancipants]

A PUPPY!!!!!!!!

Camping after a trail race would be good active recovery - but I'd also be tempted to send everyone hiking without me.

 

[garneska]

OMG look at the PUPPY!!! Love Love Love.

 

[avondale]

Schedule....that's life.

The big meet on the day before your race: use it as a way to NOT worry about the race because you'll be too busy. Just make sure that every minute you are not at the meet, you are sleeping or otherwise off your feet. (Yes, easier said than done.) You will be spending every minute at that big meet focusing on a big goal for your kids. Seems like they could understand that YOU have a big goal the next day with your race, so they could turn around and help with that by being extra-helpful on the packing and trip preparation. Maybe the family can try to get a lot of the trip preparation done before the big meet and your race?

I agree with @nancipants that camping and hiking will be good active recovery. Just take it nice and slow. Honestly, the hard part to me would be the 6 hours sitting in the car - I would be very stiff. Wear compression sleeves, etc. Baby yourself - you will deserve it.

 

[Herding_Cats]

Schedule....that's life.

The big meet on the day before your race: use it as a way to NOT worry about the race because you'll be too busy. Just make sure that every minute you are not at the meet, you are sleeping or otherwise off your feet. (Yes, easier said than done.) You will be spending every minute at that big meet focusing on a big goal for your kids. Seems like they could understand that YOU have a big goal the next day with your race, so they could turn around and help with that by being extra-helpful on the packing and trip preparation.

Yeah I'm planning on either NOT volunteering for a job (the coaches will understand and we volunteer for literally every single other meet) or signing up for something like "stock the chocolate milk and applesauce pouch table" so I can spend most of my time sitting down.

Maybe the family can try to get a lot of the trip preparation done before the big meet and your race?

Yes. That would definitely be the plan, although DH and I had also talked about getting a campsite near the race start (its about a 45min drive) so we could just crash there after the meet and I wouldn't have to get up *quite* so early, and also he would have a place to hang out until midday when he (or someone else if I find a more enthusiastic volunteer) jumps in to "pace" me for the last 10-11 miles.

I agree with @nancipants that camping and hiking will be good active recovery. Just take it nice and slow. Honestly, the hard part to me would be the 6 hours sitting in the car - I would be very stiff. Wear compression sleeves, etc. Baby yourself - you will deserve it.

I will likely be very stiff as well. On the plus side, there is a lake where we will be camping that won't be very warm that I can just go sit in