I can track my annual running, on the injuries I received (pathetic I know.)
Last year was my Plantar Fasciitis.
The year before? Pulled Calf muscles.
The year before? Hernia surgery (open, not laproscopic.)
So why do I bring this up? Well, on Weds. I was sitting on the couch coughing – and suddenly felt a pain in my left groin-area. As the day went on – the pain was very reminiscent of a pain that I had felt – 3 years ago. In fact, it reminded me EXACTLY of how I felt 3 years ago. Read more ›
This is an excerpt from a posting by Craig Payne – Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in Australia from the Podiatry-Arena forum. It is reposted with his permission. Special thanks to Peter Bird for bringing this forum posting to my attention. Pictures were added by me, to help illustrate. The original posting had no photos or illustrations.
Ok, Mr Runner, you have got plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis occurs when the load in the plantar fascia exceeds what the tissue can take, so we have only two things we can do. One is reduce the load and the other is increase the ability of the tissues to take the load. Reducing the load is easy and is something we can do today. Increasing the ability of the tissue to take the load is more difficult, takes time and is not something we can do in the short term.
Low Dye Strapping – photo from http://conejofeet.com/patients-guide-heel-pain/
I know you have a marathon to run in 4 weeks. Is the plantar fasciitis interfering with your preparation for that? If it is, then we will use low dye strapping today to get a more acute effect of reducing the load. At least that will help the symptoms and start the healing process while we keep an eye on that marathon preparation. Read more ›
After being stuck in the house for 5 days – I still look this suave. Honest.
So, after an absence of several days – I have returned! My Sinusitis turned upper respiratory infection (I think they are just guessing and throwing out fancy sounding generic illnesses) is improving, My temperature is only 99.9 now. But that is no excuse to miss Janathon is it?
So what sort of exercise did I do? A Fullbody workout! I have been slacking for several days, so I figured I needed to jump right in. Now I will admit that I did concentrate on my abs, my diaphram and my rib muscles. I didn’t stop there however! My the scalenes, sternoclidomastoid, upper trapezius, levator costorum, paraspinals and subclavius for inhalation; and, the pectorals, serratus anterior, latissimus dorsi, and serratus posterior muscles also received a great workout and all with only one exercise! Read more ›
I know you have all been dying to hear what sort of work out I did after I got better..
Well, I haven’t exactly gotten better. Yesterday I was still rocking a fever of 102. Today I have been fortunate enough to have my fever down to 100.1, which, while it does still reek havoc with my internal temperature control – is a definite sign of improvement. I’m not so sure that I’m going to be able to milk this with another day off – I think dayquil will get me through tomorrow.
Thankfully. I know its odd, but my work doesn’t go away just because I am not in the office.
But lets not focus on work, Read more ›
So, I know you have been dying to find out what I have done for day 11 & 12 of Janathon! After all, we all know that I have committed to running everyday this month!
So what did I do yesterday? I waited at a walk-in medical center for two-hours then a pharmacy for two hours. With the flu that has been going around the country I wanted to get a doctor to check me for the Flu and give a prescription for tamiflu if it was. Like most people, I don’t have the time to be sick any longer than neccesary.
I don’t know if you have ever had the Flu-test before, but I don’t think I will ever feel the same. The test consists of a swab going up your nose and waggling around. Its a bit… Unsettling to say the least. The good news however is that I do not have the flu. It seems that I have a sinus infection, and while this is far better than the flu. Right now, with a fever going on I find it a thin blessing (but I am thankful it is not the flu none the less!)
So today’s Janathon is consisting of sitting on the couch watching James Bond movies with my wife and son.
This is what I risk facing when I have to go into a meeting in Alexandria
It seems, that despite being up early and doing a nice run yesterday, I never posted about it!
I had a meeting about an hour past my office yesterday, so I had no idea what time I would be returning home. (An hour and a half because I had to go through DC.) This meant I was probably better off working out in the morning.
(Plus someone at the dinner the night before had been talking about how crazy someone there was for getting up and running 5 miles. I told him I probably would the next day – so I had to follow through!)
So at 20 minutes to 5am, my alarm went off telling me to get up. (it’s NOT 4:40 am, because I promised myself when I got out of the military that I would not get up at any time that sounded like “four” ever again.) Off I went to my treadmill. At about 3 miles, I was really bored and thought about getting off of it – but this was one of those cases where I had told someone I was going to do five miles, so I had to live up to it!
I did run in my Sauconys, as I figured 2 days of running in new shoes – I should probably return to the faithful “Standby” for my long run. It actually (other than being mind-numbingly boring) felt really good!
I was right on my traffic planning however, it did take me one hour and forty minutes to get there. (for the record, only 40 minutes to get home as there was no traffic at that hour)
Who knew there were so many foot pain comics out there?
So, at the end of Part 3, I had a plan on how to deal with the Plantar Fasciitis which was:
While my desire for an insta-fix was (expectedly) dashed to the ground, having a goal and a direction that would resolve my issues was fantastic. The podiatrist had warned me that this might be a long process, and lets be blunt here. Considering the lack of flexibility when he tested my ankle? This (unfortunately) made an incredible amount of sense.
So, a couple of things I did right off. I knew my Orthotics weren’t going to be ready for approximately 4 weeks – so I went out and got some blue ones from Dr. Scholls. This combined with the Arch strap did give some immediate relief. I was cleared to try running fairly quickly after my Doctor’s visit – but my shoes hadn’t arrived and I wasn’t willing to attempt to run in the shoes that had contributed to my problem. Not wanting to lose my fitness level – I attempted other workouts (Insanity), but I have to admit I only lasted a week or so at it. I have an unfortunate problem when it comes to exercise. Read more ›
Day 9 of Janathon COMPLETE!!!! I had to head into work early today, and back late (although it was late due to a truely lovely dinner. I have to admit, I did not follow my diet for dinner.) I have been getting hassled by Max for not giving my impressions of the Altra Zero Drop running shoes I got yesterday, so my Janathon run was going to need to be something a bit more trying than my 3 miles in 45 minutes from last night.
I was in a hurry, so I headed down to the treadmill. Rather than my leisurely 10 minute mile that I have a tendency to do there (I admit it.. the treadmill makes me lazy..) I figured 7mph should be about right, considering what I have been doing out side and it had the added bonus, that 3 miles would be the perfect distance to finish up the TV show (Dr. Who.) I was watching.
Sorry for the short posting, just an update on Janathon!
Bryce running up a hill at his first 5k in DEC 2011.
This morning my son Bryce informed me he wants to be able to run seven miles with me. Now, since he is 10 – that means it is well within the limits I have heard whispered on the interwebs – that a child shouldn’t run TOO many miles.
This got me to thinking – how is training a child different from how an adult trains? Does there need to be limits on the mileage that the child is allowed to work up too?
I figured I would look up some of the items that I have heard from random places to verify them. So I began using my favorite tool. Google. We all know if it’s on the internet it must be true – so this seemed like a flaw-less plan to me. Read more ›
So, this morning I woke up (always a great way to start the day!) and although my legs felt better they were still tired/sore. I thought that was a darn good reason end my running streak and do some yoga in the evening instead. In fact I said “Self, since the legs are still a bit sore/tired why don’t we do some Yoga tonight instead?” Really. Right out loud and everything.
As the day went by, the tired/soreness faded from my legs, but I was going to stick with my plan and do Yoga tonight.
But then my shoes arrived. “What shoes?” You might ask….
My new Altra Zero Drop Running shoes! They arrived at my office today!
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