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stevebradley - 2010-04-09 10:38 PM MANDY - Given the length of time of your swim layoff, slow is fine! Form is bound to deteriorate, but should rediscover itself before too long --- or are you still pool-access-challenged? Serious mojo being sent your way vis-a-vis that impish calf of yours! Here's to a rollicking good 18 miles!

latestarter - 2010-04-09 9:24 PM



Actually we are in Chattanooga.   We are taking the quick drive down and plan to take a leisurely drive back home through West Virginia and other places.    Although even the I75 drive through Kentucky and Tennessee is quite beautiful.   Sure beats the 401.

They questioned us for 15 minutes at the border this morning.   Hate to see what they do with shady looking characters.  
Was sunny and blue skies from Dayton on and the temp warmed up about Knoxville - 25 and sunny and supposed to be like that for the next several days.

Tonight and tomorrow morning is the last I will have internet access until maybe Tuesday when I visit a friend.   We are camping the next 3 nights.  

Wanted to mention that I read an article on running in the Globe yesterday.   Did you see it?  There was a diagaram of a leg, pointing out common running injuries and saw that there is a tendon called the Patellar tendon just about the tibia bone below the knee cap.   That is where I have been having soreness and tenderness when I say 'the knee'.   Also in the left knee, but to a much, much lesser degree - but I could notice it.    What is the cause of that and is it serious?   Fixed easily?   

Sorry to hear you are having a bad bout with running - hope it all settles down quickly.

stevebradley - 2010-04-09 7:54 AM



ANNE -

Oh, geez, don't you just hate that when it happens --- when Spousal Unit offers advice, and you ignore it, and it turns out their instincts were correct??

stevebradley - 2010-04-09 7:59 PM



TRACEY -

Maybe it WILL turn out to be just a blip, but I do indeed think it's a budding neuroma. This one is the same foot as the one that was removed in Jan '06, but that one was between the 2nd and 3rd toes, and this time it's the more conventional 3rd/4th junction. Damn. Damn, damn, damn. Of course, I'm hoping it resolves itself soon, gets better before it gets worse. It might be time to dig out my metatarsal pads!

Bad few days with the lower body. The neuroma, and then after yesterday's run BOTH plantar fasciia, and today in the gym I moved a bench and cracked it against my shin -- just about where I had the stress fracture in '00 and a subsequent hairline fracture in '03. Gulp. And my runs for several months now have been sooooo good!

So, I think I'll try to take tomorow off from running and give things another day to settle down. If bad things come in 3s, then I've just met my quota - neuroma, PF, tibia thwap. Now they all just need to go away, preferably as quickly as they appeared!

I'm glad you've made friends with the Tempo Trainer. What's the trendy acronym for it - BFF?

That is a good visualization for swimming, the one about the ladder. I'd forgotten it, which is kind of surprising (or maybe not, for someone of my advanced years......and encroaching dotage? )

I've never been a golfer, but I once read that swimming is very much like golfing in the lengthy checklist that needs to be run through, all the time. I've been playing with the pitch of my entering hand, so virtually every stroke I am thinking about depth and angle, depth and angle, depth and angle -- along with all the other picayune details. So, I dig where you're coming from!

manfarr1974 - 2010-04-09 8:56 PM

Hey all! Hope you are ready for a good weekend.  It is a wet one here.  I swam today for the first time in a month, it was good, but I am SLLLLOOOOW.  And get tired quickly which stinks, and I blame on form more than anything. 

Tomorrow I have an 18 mile run planned, hoping the calf holds up.  It has been hot and cold lately.

Have a great weekend!

Cheers,

Mandy

stevebradley - 2010-04-09 11:00 PM



TRACEY and MANDY -

Sox just gave up two with two outs in the bottom of the 8th, and K.C. is now ahead 4-3. Bloody hell!

But you're right! It's early April! Too early to panic! Everything will be hunky-dory!

(And at least the Evil Empire got clobbered by the Rays tonight. So there! Take that, stupid Yankees fans everywhere!)

manfarr1974 - 2010-04-10 11:11 AM

Hey all-

Hope your training went well.

Had an interesting run this am on the dirt roads near my house.  I was lucky enough to have a friend run with me - she is much faster than me, but it was fun following her footprints in the snow...So the run started out with an inch of snow, then some ankle deep mud, and ended with a wrong turn which made my 18 mile run turn into a 21 mile run...or so...oops. 

The two of us are a bad combo, she came running back to me with this look on her face, and I hadn't been paying attention to anything but her footprints...We both burst out laughing and went exploring (we both hate to back track), eventually finding our way out to the main road (through more mud and snow).  We came out 6 miles (instead of 2) from the house.  Sooo, the good news is the leg felt OK for most of it. Pace was 9:50/mile, which is ok for me on a long run with some challenges on it.

Cheers,

Mandy

thall0672 - 2010-04-10 12:55 PM As obnoxious as Red Sox fans can be (not you Mandy!), Yankees fans just seem so much more so. (Am I biased though?)