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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Holy Springtime, Batman!
In the course of my last 4 runs, I’ve gone from 21 degrees and windy with slush falling from the sky to 68 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze. Just in between these last two runs, the temperature went up 25 degrees! It’s been three months since I [...]
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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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Withdrawal?
Between my horrendous cold, and the occasional slush-storm, I’ve been back on that blasted machine for ten days now. The longer I go, the larger percentage of my day I spend thinking about running, or looking up running articles on the internet. I’m actually having dreams about running! I [...]
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Back out there.
So after nearly two weeks on an exercise machine, yesterday the temperature abruptly jumped, and I got out on the road to run again. It was rough. The machines may keep your aerobic fitness up, but they don’t keep your feet and joints ready for all that impacting, and [...]
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