I did not run this week due a left IT band injury.
I took 47,691 steps this week according to my Garmin Vivoactive HR (VA-HR) smartwatch.
Sunday, 7/14/2019
447 steps, 49/132 resting/peak HR, 5.12 hr sleep, 174.2 lbs, 0 floors climbed.
I was up early at 5:15 AM. I just couldn't sleep any more. But ... I couldn't walk without pain. I deferred my 2019 Boilermaker 15K registration to 2020 at 6:13 AM, 47 minutes before the 7 AM deadline. I don't get a refund and I still have to pay next year but I do get early registration. I was kind of sad all day. I thought of passing Kevin Clinefelter yesterday as he laid there with leg cramps. Then ... finding out that he had died. I don't like thinking of death. Christine and I don't even have current wills yet.
Monday, 7/15/2019
6990 steps, 52/106 resting/peak HR, 6.43 hr sleep, 174.5 lbs, 1 floor climbed.
I could walk a bit better today but had trouble going down stairs. I hopped down while I pushed off the railing. I suppose I should have taken an elevator. I did do what Christine had asked me to do. I made an appointment with my PCP for tomorrow. I really need to get my left knee looked. A tick carrying Lyme Disease can give you arthritis in your knee according to my Google research.
Tuesday, 7/16/2019
7523 steps, 50/106 resting/peak HR, 6.44 hr sleep, 175.2 lbs, 3 floors climbed.
Well ... I finally went to see Dr. Lavender at URMC on Carter St. Back story: I got bit by a tick in mid April (either 4/15 or 4/17) when I ran in Durand Eastman or Mendon Ponds Park. I have had nagging left leg pain (first hamstring, then calf and now outside of my left knee) since plus I have felt tired for the past month or longer.
He was impressed when I showed him the tick that bit me. Anyhow ... he unwrapped it from the tape that held it and took a picture of it. He also took a picture of one of the random bruises that showed up near the back of my knee a month after the tick bit me. No ... not the bullseye rash that presents in most of the Lyme Disease cases. He looked at my left knee and then moved it around until he found a position or two that hurt ... ouch! He told me that I had a IT band issue and gave me some exercises to do. He also ordered a blood and stool test to see if I do have Lyme Disease. But I don't think he thinks I do. But ... who knows unless you do the test?
Wednesday, 7/17/2019
10637 steps, 50/102 resting/peak HR, 5.18 hr sleep, 175.8 lbs, 7 floors climbed.
I stopped by URMC on Carter St before work to give a vial of blood. I got a trainee who is already quite skilled at drawing blood. I barely felt it! Now ... the stool sample but that will have to wait until I have to do #2, read the instructions and then ... get it done.
Lots of walking and some limping today. My boss took me around all the L3Harris CS buildings: A&E, Messari, University and Jroc. I am the supervisor of the guy, Ricky, who handles these buildings. It was high time I learned where they were and the difficulites that he has. He doesn't have an office so he relies on my texts that I send him when one of his Ricoh printer emails me of its issue. I was glad when we got done with Jroc. My legs were tired ... trust me!
Thursday, 7/18/2019
10271 steps, 50/112 resting/peak HR, 6.12 hr sleep, 175.0 lbs, 8 floors climbed.
Walk: 2.15 miles, 38:33, 17:54 pace, 76 avg HR, 78F, humid, 9 mph E wind, mostly cloudy
Kind of a sad day. I sttended Kevin Clinefelter's service at the United Church of Christ at 123 S Main St in Pittsford. He had died of a cardiac event after suffering leg cramps between mile 10 and 11 at last Saturday's Shoreline Half. A Democrat and Chronicle news article here and obituary here. It was the usual mix of happy and sad memories of a man taken far too young. I teared up a few times. I don't know when I first met Kevin but his sister said that he first started running at a Race with Grace 10K and won his age group. I found 2013 results here (41:50, first in his age group), 2012 results here (43:05, 3rd behind Charlie Andrews and Tim McMullen) and 2011 results here (43:52, first in his age group). So ... maybe it was 2011. I remember beating him at the 2018 Race with Grace 10K and winning my age group and $25. He was coming off a stress fracture and congratulated me. He was running to his recovery plan and didn't need to catch me. I started running races at the Newark Turkey Day 5 Mile Run back in 2005. Quite a coincidence. I remember talking with Kevin when I saw him before or after races. He had quite a knowledge of running. I will miss him.
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| Various pictures of Kevin that I found on Facebook |
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| Barb Boutillier took her last picture of Kevin Clinefelter at mile 9 at the Shoreline Half on 7/13/2019 |
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| Pictures of Kevin from the remembrance table |
Then we all went for a run or walk at our own pace up and around the Cobbs Hill Reservoir. I couldn't run so I walked as best I could. I sobbed a bit on the walk. Someone wrote a message in sidewalk chalk on Reservoir Rd where Kevin and GVH spent so much time together.
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| For the Love of the Run ... Rest in Peace Kevin |
6425 steps, 46/97 resting/peak HR, 6.29 hr sleep, 173.2 lbs, 2 floors climbed
Well ... I punched out at 5 PM but didn't leave until almost 6 PM. I have lots of stuff to get done before I am off on vacation until Thursday. Stuff takes longer when your laptop is pokey.
Saturday, 7/20/2019
5668 steps, 48/95 resting/peak HR, 7.03 hr sleep, 174.9 lbs, 1 floor climbed
Well ... it was forecast to be oppressively hot and humid today. It was also my usual biweekly grocery shopping trip to the Macedon Walmart with my oldest son, Michael, and daughter, Karen. Usually, Michael is first and Karen is second. But Karen switched since she figured that shopping at 9 AM was going to be cooler than 10:30 AM.
I was a bit early so I stopped by the Erie Canal park at the western edge of Palmyra beforehand and snapped a couple of pics. I hadn't been there in quite a while.
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| A couple pics of a waterfall in the Palmyra NY Erie Canal park |
