Daily Archives: March 16, 2017

Tentitive 30 minutes

March 15th, Wednesday

“Beware the Ides.. ”  and the foot

After a very nice lunch in Old Town with Kristen and Arlene, came home and had a nap. Feeling frustrated about consistent soreness to my left foot, I decided to go out for a while under a new plan.  That plan was to do 10 minute warm-up, 10 minutes of work,  and 10 minutes cool down. The idea was that only 30 minutes of work may not put undue pressure sore foot. There was moderate pain in my left InStep for the entire 30 minutes. Clearly there is something going on in that foot. But I did manage to do 10  x 30-second pickups going off every minute during the middle stage. That was good and seemed to get my heart rate up pretty high. I was breathing pretty heavily for those 10 minutes. These pickups today were not very quick, just a  solid stride (short).    I was happy to get that much work in today.  I will see what effect it has on for my foot tomorrow.

Stats –

I-Mad = 0.   The Achilles tendons are fine period no pain or soreness at all. I need a new indicator two measure my instep soreness level. I guess it has to be I-Mid, (Index of Morning Instep Discomfort )

I-Mid =  6 today

Sleep = 6 hours. Not good last few days. Not getting to bed early enough.

a.m.HR = 54 BPM

WEIGHT  = #154

WORKOUT = ABOVE

 

 

Carefully resting. Humbug!

March 16th,  Thursday

Foot still sore.  Heat, stretch, ibuprofen. Several online sites like Runner’s World say ice and stretch, but I do not understand that concept. Ice contracts: heat expands. So I have chosen to do heat and stretch because it seems to me that the goal is to elongate, stretch the area. Therefore I have not opted for ice.  Hope to get some work in tomorrow.