Month: February 2007

For David – No, I’m not doing the golf balls with toes thing (though it bears a try).

I found two bits of advice that seem to be working well for me:
1. Wear shoes with good arch support (I’m a high-arch kinda fella) ALL THE TIME; and
2. Do the foot hold that Dr. Benedict Digiovanni researched, described in the LA TIMES; oh and
3. Don’t run so f’n much.

The stretch, if you’re not inclined to click through to the LAT:
1. Sit in a chair, back straight.
2. Take off your shoes, making sure to check out your cube entrance to make sure the creepy guy’s not looking in.
3. Cross your right foot over to your left knee.
4. Grab your right toes with your right hand, and pull ’em towards your shin.
5. Lather.
6. Rinse.
7. Repeat 10 times, holding each pull for 10 seconds.
8. Uncross legs.
9. Do this again for the left foot.
10. Turn around just in time to see boss walking in.
11. Fumble to get shoes back on.

15 minutes on the ‘mill at the gym this afternoon, and another 15 minutes on the stationary bike.

So, my favorite running maladay, Plantar Fascitis, has reared its ugly head again. WHich means, I think, that I need to revisit my running goals for February, and ramp down to about 12-16 miles/week instead of 20. Plus stretch, stretch, stretch.

The upside is that I can then spend more time on the bike or in the pool.

(Or on the couch, but let’s not go there)

Anyway, hope everyone else is running injury free. I’ve got a good stretch I found that’s minimizing the immediate sympton (stiffness in the ankles when I wake up in the morning); the next key is going to be going short distances again so as not to re-aggrivate it.

So, going to the monthly view in Nike+ gives me 80.76 miles at a respectable but not speedy 8:43/mile pace for the entire month.

However, I’m not yet getting credit on the resolution display. Which leads me to believe that they’re STILL running light on the server side.

Believe it or not, I almost didn’t make it. Work and a sick kid interfered a bit, but I finished up tonight in the basement watching ’24’. Good stuff, and I don’t feel my mind rotting if I can’t breathe. But other than that, life is good.

Well, while backing up iTunes to DVD (stupid upwards of 7 DVDs … time to purge the collection) I finally got fed up with the SuperDrive on my MacBook. It’s way, way too hard to get disks in and out, so I went on up to the Apple Store in Providence, got the Genius to say “Hey, you’re right”, and they’re sending me shipping containers to send it in for service. Here’s crossed fingers that I’ll get a new PC instead of the old one when they ship it back… Thank goodness for backups.

Well, that’s pretty much it. I’m aiming to run 80 miles in February, which will be only about a 10% mileage increase (based on 3 fewer days in the month), and I’d like to start mixing some biking and swimming back in. I’ve been catching up on Warren’s blog, and getting the tri bug again.

Oh, and I think I’ll run outside tomorrow in celebration of new shoes.

I will wear long pants, though.