Today I decided that I'd go ahead and do the scheduled sprint intervals, but rather than outside, do it on the treadmill at the gym.
And you know, they actually went pretty well. I did feel some pain in my leg afterwards, but not near as much as in the past. Not only that, but it went away a lot quicker than before. It was about 4.5 miles total: 10 min warmup, 4x800m (1:30 RI), 10 min cooldown.
Then this afternoon, I went to see my doctor. I told him the history of my problem, reminded him I'd been in earlier, and what was going on now. I haven't been in there in about 6 months, and they've implemented something new. In each examination room they have a computer with access to the group database. When I told the doctor I'd been to Urgent Care about 6 months ago for an x-ray of my leg, he looked it up, saw the visit, and bam, he had the x-rays at his fingertips.
He examined my leg and it wasn't as sensitive as I expected it to be this close to running. He then looked at the x-ray from 6 months ago, and basically said it was a simple irritation that likely was irritated by something that was wrong with my gait. I mentioned the fact that I had the wrong shoes for a period, then showed him the insoles I was wearing.
So his thoughts were the same as mine, which was basically, having the wrong shoes irritated my leg to the point of creating pain. Getting the new shoes was the likely solution to the problem, but sicne I already had the irritation, it was hard to see the improvement.
He told me to do what I was already doing: judicious icing of my leg after a run, take a pain reliever if necessary, and if it got too bad, take a rest. Most importantly, he specifically told me he wouldn't tell me to stop running! He doesn't see any chance of injuring myself further by running.
Things are certainly looking up. My training will continue!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Today's Tweets
00:04 New post on my blog: Today's Tweets: 07:38 Wt: 176.6, RHR: 50, BF: 17.3%, DWD: 13 # 07:39 Sh.. tinyurl.com/c8kjs5 #
05:34 Wt: 176, RHR: 50, BF: 17.4%, DWD: 14 #
05:36 RT CactusTri Noticed that @algore only has 2 friends :( poor guy. Course he's only tweeted 12 times since inventing the internet... #
05:37 RT @CactusTri Noticed that @algore only has 2 friends :( poor guy. Course he's only tweeted 12 times since inventing the internet... #
05:37 One shouldn't RT when half asleep. #
06:46 Wellm DWD is now a big fat 0. #
08:39 Heh, whoops. I shipped toner to the wrong address. I was able to track the people down, the girl from our office is picking it up. #
10:20 RT @activenetwork: Make Your Own Homemade Energy Gel tinyurl.com/al55zy #
10:28 The first Adam Carolla podcast is now up: carollaradio.com/ #
10:44 It's a gusty, blusty day, I must say! #
13:12 RT @rodmur: bit.ly/wgMSX okay, that is hilarious. If you remember your old Kool-Aid commercials. #
15:01 User: "Connect into my system! Whatever you did with it, it's not right." He was seeing the auto-options screen when IE7 is done installing. #
16:34 Alright, I'm heading over to the gym, then to Fleet Feet for the Get Back Your Game seminar... don't forget, Jack Bauer's tonight! #
19:29 At the "Get Back Your Game" seminar, listening to an orthopedic surgeon. #
20:08 "You guys are here because you're athletes. Maybe in your own minds..." - seminar speaker #
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Today's Tweets
07:38 Wt: 176.6, RHR: 50, BF: 17.3%, DWD: 13 #
07:39 Should I make it an even 14 DWD, then let it reset? Hmm. #
09:21 My 7-year-old does' #
09:21 My 7-year-old doesn't want to go to church. He said his stomach hurts because he has the hiccups. #
10:02 Starting the process of going to church. #
10:34 Continuing the process of going to church. We aren't anywhere close to the bldg yet, i'm expecting to be late. #
11:08 Hah! Made it to church on time. 7 minutes early in fact. #
15:23 At Chili's with the family for a late-Sunday lunch. I'm going to eat my napkin. #
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Today's Tweets
00:04 New post on my blog: Today's Tweets: 00:05 New post on my blog: Cross Training/Recovery Work.. tinyurl.com/cheyp7 #
05:40 Wt: 175., RHR: 52, BF: 17.6%, DWD: 11 #
08:49 Why can't users read the part of the window that says "This is informational, don't worry about it" instead of call me, freaked out? #
08:51 Wow, Spybot S&D now knows about 389,869 problems, yet STILL can't find and clean some of them. Insane. #
09:31 Same user called me again. "Hey I got this thing pop up on my screen, what do I do?" It was the Adobe Acrobat license agreement. #
09:55 The Adam Carolla Show is now no more. *snif* #
10:47 Well guys, I'm ready to run today and see how my leg fairs. Should I run 2.5, 4.5, or 6 miles? #
10:49 RT @JesseNewhart: U2 Album Leaks, Despite Ridiculous Attempts To Block It: bit.ly/2tQ9a - Yet, it still sucks. #
10:58 Phone rings. "Hi, I realize you're about to go on your run..." which translates to, "You're not running until late afternoon." #
11:09 RT @runnersworld: Olympian Brian Sell of Hansons-Brooks fame will race in Boston! tinyurl.com/b923mt - sweet! #
11:11 [IT guy] John Pham of @aDoRunRun fame will race in Chicago! #
13:03 Well, I limited my run to 2.5 miles, and took it easy. I feel alright, my knee hurt for a few minutes but then stopped. #
13:04 I did some stretches, and now I'm icing my leg. Only time will tell how it feels later. #
13:46 User tells me he always runs a program called "CClean". I don't know what it is, and his computer's running slow... #
13:46 He's now backtracked and says he never runs it and doesn't know what it is. #
16:38 I hear something... hah! It's the Diet Dew at the store down the street, calling my name. #
19:46 Suddenly my Tivoserver/Tivo Desktop stopped working. #
19:49 Downloading the latest Tivo Desktop now, hopefully it'll solve the problem. Strange it would start all of a sudden though. #
20:04 "Element not found." Nice and non-descriptive, as all good errors should be. #
20:13 Wow, cool. I deleted the cache files for TivoServer and magically it worked. #
20:13 I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE, AND I GIVE YOU... Fi-ah. #
20:18 Fire. No, not Bruce. ♫ blip.fm/~2c7t1 #
20:19 3 1/2 hours to transfer Lost from the Tivo to the PC? #
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