A no-fun run and quiet fencing night.

I was looking forward to my track run today, even though it was very cold and pouring rain when it was time to do it. This hasn't been a problem in the past, but I'm hoping its at least part of the reason that I had a really bad run workout today. Timewise it wasn't so bad, it was only about 10 seconds slower than my last track run and considering how I felt, that's pretty good. For some reason, my shins just weren't in running mode today. They fatigued before I even finished the first lap and stayed really tight until the very end. No fun! I must have taken up some weird running technique in the rain or something. My feet were a little heavier since they were really wet, but this hasn't been a problem before. I couldn't figure out anything obvious with my technique but boy were my shins tight. I ran and walked a couple laps to settle them down afterwards, but hoped it wouldn't affect my fencing that night or happen again tomorrow when I join the cross country group for a run.

Fencing had a pretty rough start tonight. George and I were pretty equal during warm up, but he beat me in the actual bout, 5-4. Yeah, I was working on getting specific shots rather than going for whatever was open, but my point control was way and I missed some clear shots. I got some really good ones too, but not consistently. I then fenced a new fencer, did really well in our warm up and should have beat him in the bout, but didn't he was just way too big and out of control for me. Not please with that at all. I then fenced Helene who I did very well against then Craig Brooks, my fencing nemesis, who I also did well against. Finally, I fenced epee with one of the foilists in the club, Jan. Its always fun fencing foilists, they're much more active on their feet and just a lot more bravado with flicks and flesches and all that fancy stuff. Jan beet me 15-11 but I really had a good time fencing him and in the end it really showed where I needed to work on some things, especially that illusive foot touch.