Fit To Be Tied!
Yesterday evening, I spent 10 glorious hours pain free. I just needed to get tied up! By the podiatrist, of course. I*finally* got a slot to see one about the tearing heel-pain that’s taken me off the road and made me limp for the last six weeks. As I [...]
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No Progress
Well, after 3 weeks off from running, with daily massage and stretching, and icing after use, I figured it was time to try again. This was a mistake. Don’t get me wrong, the run went great. I warmed up extra-carefully, and massaged the heck out of my heel before [...]
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Plantar-fucking-fasciitis!
Someone please tell me how to win! I’ve been off the road for 13 days now. I can’t even stand a full session on the machine. Why is this so fucking hard?!?!?!? I’ll be going to the doctor next week, but everything I read boils treatment down to either: [...]
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Pushing It
I tried an experiment today. I decided to run harder than I thought I could. And I did! Many months ago, when I was just starting to run, I discovered that pushing too hard was hurting me, and causing me to have to walk more, rather than eating up [...]
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It’s the drugs, stupid!
So here’s a tip. Don’t get used to running at a new “maxed-out” pace, then forget to use your asthma inhaler one morning and try to maintain that pace! That was a mistake. It would seem that the asthma drugs did have a large role in my performance [...]
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Back On Track?
Four runs into the use of my new asthma inhaler, I achieved my personal best time on my morning run. It was only ten seconds better, on a two mile run, but considering that I had been nearly two *minutes* behind that time the week before, I’m feeling pretty damned good [...]
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Doping For Better Performance!
I finally caved in. After decades of resisting the urge to use drugs to improve my performance, I could take no more. Exercise induced asthma, you win! Since the first day I ran last June, I’ve had a bit of trouble breathing while I was at my maximum exertion. [...]
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Injured Again. Grrrr….
Yep, so that ridiculous knee injury took me off the road for five days. It still hurts constantly. However, I managed my first run of this week without it doing much more than aching. It definitely slowed me down, but it did not stop me! I’m not sure where [...]
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Another Round of Newbie Runner Observations
So, over the past few weeks, I’ve been collecting another round of observations from my perspective as a new convert to the running cult. I wonder how many will still seem true in a year! These are the things that are currently surprising, annoying, and/or amusing me (sometimes all [...]
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Running Cold
Another first! My morning run was the first I’ve done below 50 degrees. Boy, does temperature change things! The first thing I noticed was how hard it was to warm up my muscles. I usually do a couple of rounds up and down our front-hall stairs, followed by ankle-rolls, [...]
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