This is Dingo. She's a puppy of who-knows-what breeds. I'm sure Dave will think of a new breed, just for her. Since Boo is now a Chowbrador breed, a single dog with a breed of her own. Individuality is cherished in our household.

I almost missed bootcamp because of her. Well, because of Boo. I didnt' know if Boo, who normally doesn't get along with other dogs, would appreciate me bringing home a stray. But luckily it has worked out fine for the first 12 hours. Cross your fingers.

Bootcamp was 10 rounds of 5 - pullups, 10 - pushups, 15 squats. Warmup and cool down was run down to First/Foothill and back.

Reflection: my pullups suck. I couldn't even do jumping pullups. I think I need to work on that.

Pushups: they always suck. I can't go below parrallel. Never been able to do that, but I will continue trying.

Squats: OK, but after 9 rounds, they really SUCKED! My legs were heavy and I knew my IT bands was tight, causing my right knee to hurt.

Good part is my left heel isn't sore this morning. I don't know if that's because I stretched before BC, or because we didn't do much running. Either way, I'm happy about that.

If you call that speedwork

Last night I warmed up by running (HA) from the house to AHS 2.2 miles. I felt slow, but that was OK. I was using this as my warmup. Funny thing is that I didn't set my watch because I needed to record my lap times. And since this was a long warmup it didn't matter.

I left the house at 6:04. My legs felt heavy. My feet were noisy. Nothing felt right or good. I kept looking at my watch thinking something's wrong. I'm at Santa Anita and Genoa and my watch says 6:26. My brain kept thinking it's taken longer than 6 min 26 sec to get here. I feel like I'm going slow and there's no way I can run that fast. Is my chrono stopped? No, the seconds are still going. What's wrong? Oh. Yeah. DUH! That's the actual time. Then OMG it's taking me this long to get here? Yup that's how my brain was working yesterday.

10 x 200's with 30 sec rest between.
1-1:00
2- 54 sec
3- 57 sec
4- 58 sec
5- 1:02
6- 57
7- 59
8- 1:00
9- 59
10-1:02

I really should have been at 50 sec since those were my times a few weeks ago at BC. I'm attributing these slow times to an off day. I'll see what my times are next week.

I was surprised to see Keith at the track. I picked the track because I didn't think I'd see anyone there. The Wilson people were up on the trail, so I could run around, good or bad, anonymously. Then, on my last lap, I see Keith taking to CF Jer. OK what's he doing here? Nowhere to hide.

Cool down was the 2.2 miles back. I had a tight right glut, pain in my left heel and up my shins. Pain up my shins?!? This is new. I haven't felt that since I started bootcamp, years ago. So it was a long, slow way back home. I walked probably 70% of the time. I'd cool down too much walking so I'd pick up the pace to a slow jog. Walk. Jog. Walk. Jog. All the way home - 2.2 miles of this.

I need to add back more stretching. I became lazy and stopped stretching every day. Now I'm waking up with pain in my left heel for a few days after I run, hobbling around for the first part of the morning. Sucks. This could be due to tightness somewhere, and I'm afraid it might be the start of the dreaded Plantar Facitis. I'm going to combat this with stretching and more streching. Maybe some icing.