I ran 17.5 today as an experiment. Just over a month to to the marathon and I have so many injuries going on right now I wasn't convinced I could even do it this year. I pushed through and by about mile 14 I felt fine. There's a few things that I will take with me on race day for sure.
If you get "jumper's knee" or patella tendonitis, it can feel like a stress fracture in your shin. The strangest pain I've ever felt. The tendon really wasn't where I was feeling the pain. It was sharp pains in my shin and up my femur. Someone suggested I try the knee band and sure enough... It was just tendonitis. It still can hurt a little running around a corner but the pain goes away after. Thank you $9.00 foam band thingy.
This stuff is magic, I swear. Anything is bugging me, I rub this on it before I run and within a few runs I have no more pain. It takes a few times using it. It isn't a pain cream. It really loosens things up and helps them heal somehow. You can get it at natural food stores. I haven't researched about it, so please no one tell me it's poisonous or something. I do know that it's the thing that Michelle Pfeiffer uses to kill her cheating boyfriend when she combines it with White Oleander in that movie. ("White Oleander is a Good movie, btw. Depressing, but good.)
Oh man, how did that picture of Mini Chi get there?! Oh well. She would tell you that the things you need to take along on a 17.5 mile run are a soft blankie, some animal crackers, and a baba.
Please put a sidewalk all the way down 1450 South and all the way down River Rd to the jogging/bike path! Everyone that uses the path has to walk along this glass-ridden-zero-shoulder-55 mph-River Rd. to get to it! Thanks.
This stuff is magic, I swear. Anything is bugging me, I rub this on it before I run and within a few runs I have no more pain. It takes a few times using it. It isn't a pain cream. It really loosens things up and helps them heal somehow. You can get it at natural food stores. I haven't researched about it, so please no one tell me it's poisonous or something. I do know that it's the thing that Michelle Pfeiffer uses to kill her cheating boyfriend when she combines it with White Oleander in that movie. ("White Oleander is a Good movie, btw. Depressing, but good.)
Oh man, how did that picture of Mini Chi get there?! Oh well. She would tell you that the things you need to take along on a 17.5 mile run are a soft blankie, some animal crackers, and a baba.
The GU and the Perpetuem can keep you going for any distance if you can carry enough of it. Go easy on the chocolate Special K though. I made the mistake of eating three bowls before my run yesterday and was a little... slow.
"What's stuck to my foot?"
Chocolate eyes
Birthday Beauty. I can't believe you've been here for two years.
I went to the Rec Center today to run because it was supposed to be 110 degrees. I drop Sarah off at the cool daycare first. This is a picture of just a small corner of the room. There is bean bag chairs, flat screen tv, an outdoor playground. It's pretty posh. Then I head up to the treadmills, and on the way pick up a Monster drink. I've never had one before and don't normally drink caffeinated drinks at all, but I'm so sick of feeling like a slug. I'm trying to get my training mojo back. I decided I was just going to sip it a little and hopefully it would give me just a little energy to get some kind of run in. I sip, and sip, and sip sip sip.... 20 minutes into the "jog" I'm still not feeling anything from it. I end up drinking the whole thing over the course of my hour-long run and THEN I feel it. The shakes and jitters started, the headache hit, the crankies hit. It lasted most of the day and also started to feel nauseous by about 6:00 pm. It was horrible. Then we went to a pizza joint for dinner and I was thinking I felt to sick to eat anything, but then realize I'm famished by the time the pizza came, so I ended up eating almost an entire medium pizza. That was a terrible experiment that I will never repeat with a Monster stink-drink.
