So we are back in DE after bailing out of HI a little early to avoid Ana's wrath. My body has no idea what time it is. I woke up at 1:30am yesterday and laid there for a while. Then bailed and went down and sorted through all my climbing gear and packed up for (hopefully) a trip down to Shenandoah National this week.
I have a problemn though. While I was in HI, post IM, last Wednesday night I was walking out by the pool and stubbed/jammed my big toe (RF) into some exposed granite. Unfortunately, it was a knife edge and I severely lacerated my big toe. We're talking several ounces of blood before I got it calmed down. Of course, I wanted to avoid the doctor so it's been a lot of butterfly bandages, tape and neosporin. It's a big ugly cut. Plus my big toe is swollen and all black and blue. I don't believe it's broken however.
Today, after subjecting myself to weights and ab work at the Y, I went out for an hour tester hike with 50 lbs on my back. The toe hurt and bled a little but the bigger issue is my lack of hiking fitness. Yikes! I have a ton of work to do to get this old bod in major league mountainerring shape in 9 weeks. There are no porters in Antarctica and I have less than 9 weeks to get ready to go....
I was going to pull a full-on 3-dayer in SNP starting tomorrow but I've decided to back that up one day and hopefully get down there for W/Th 8-hour hikes...I'm pushing it a bit but I feel the need to get on it. I must confess my body is still in a post Hawaii IM hangover--I'm quite sore and tired still...
I just need to be careful over the next couple of weeks to get past the fatigue and into serious mountainerring fitness building. I spent two hours at 11,500 feet in my hypoxic tent this afternoon....
I've started on the HI Ironman race report and video and will have that out pretty soon!
I can't wait to get back into serious hiking/trekking/climbing shape!!!
I have a problemn though. While I was in HI, post IM, last Wednesday night I was walking out by the pool and stubbed/jammed my big toe (RF) into some exposed granite. Unfortunately, it was a knife edge and I severely lacerated my big toe. We're talking several ounces of blood before I got it calmed down. Of course, I wanted to avoid the doctor so it's been a lot of butterfly bandages, tape and neosporin. It's a big ugly cut. Plus my big toe is swollen and all black and blue. I don't believe it's broken however.
Today, after subjecting myself to weights and ab work at the Y, I went out for an hour tester hike with 50 lbs on my back. The toe hurt and bled a little but the bigger issue is my lack of hiking fitness. Yikes! I have a ton of work to do to get this old bod in major league mountainerring shape in 9 weeks. There are no porters in Antarctica and I have less than 9 weeks to get ready to go....
I was going to pull a full-on 3-dayer in SNP starting tomorrow but I've decided to back that up one day and hopefully get down there for W/Th 8-hour hikes...I'm pushing it a bit but I feel the need to get on it. I must confess my body is still in a post Hawaii IM hangover--I'm quite sore and tired still...
I just need to be careful over the next couple of weeks to get past the fatigue and into serious mountainerring fitness building. I spent two hours at 11,500 feet in my hypoxic tent this afternoon....
I've started on the HI Ironman race report and video and will have that out pretty soon!
I can't wait to get back into serious hiking/trekking/climbing shape!!!
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