Training Log: Spike

To/from campus. I also did a little extra, including going over to the top of the 11th Street hill to see the street reconstruction. I also noticed that Lindley Hall is closed for renovation.

The plan was to jog easily around my April hill course and then do a bit more to get the total running time up over an hour.

But my left calf tightened up after 20 minutes. I felt the tightness a bit after a set of stairs (running down). Maybe that put some odd stress on the calf?

I walked a bit to see if it would feel ok. It felt better, but still a bit tight. So I just called it a day.

Easy biking seems fine. My current plan is to do nothing more than some easy biking until Wednesday. If it feels ok, I'll do a bit of jogging on Wednesday.

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MTB on the bike paths. I mostly stuck to parts of the Lawrence Loop. I explored the Haskell campus a bit, too.

I probably could have jogged - my calf feels ok. But maybe being a bit cautious was good.

Tomorrow's PTOC event is rescheduled to next week. The forecast has some potential for severe weather and the organizers decided it'd be best to reschedule.

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Dinner last night in Lenexa with Mary, Jyothi (sp?), Wade and Kurt. Nice. But something in my meal made me feel awful. I woke up in the middle of the night and was awake for almost 2 hours.

Dinner tonight at Soraya and Alex's - nice. Food was fine - no post-meal awful feelings!

I considered some stationary biking in the morning. But after the poor sleep I decided to use those few minutes to sleep some more.

Morning jog. I used a little bit of a headlamp for about 10 minutes.

My left calf tightened up after about 15 minutes. That was strange. It felt like it should loosen up and be fine. But it didn't. So after about 25 minutes I walked for a few minutes. That helped. I shuffled home and felt mostly ok.

My left calf is a bit tight now (after lunch). I may take a day off running tomorrow.

I saw some of the Monday running group heading north on the sidewalk along Iowa. But I didn't see Gene.

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Morning jog. I used a little tiny headlamp and turned it off after about 12 minutes when it wasn't needed. I'm guessing this week will mark the end of the headlamp jogs for the season.

Some storms a bit north of the city - not close enough to be a concern, but you could see some clouds in the distance. There was some lightning on the map, but nothing that I could see while I was jogging.

Felt ok - not good, not bad.

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