kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 - CLOSED (Page 17)

My Masi

And my crappy old mtn bike. I need a new one badly

last years TT bike, this years is still in pieces and needs paint, i will post that at a much later date!!

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OK

Heres the deal a MAC user here!!

Anyone have an idea what program to use to adjust photo sizes using a Mac?

Central NY Dec 28 

It is finally snowing !!!

OSXImageResizer is what I've got downloaded, but I haven't used it in forever. Can't tell ya how it works.

Also, you can DL GIMP for free, it's basically like Photoshop. 

Another simple way to shrink pics is to use Picasa (free from google). When you have the pic in there, if you email it to yourself, it resizes it to a smaller size for email. It's a lame way to do it, but it works really well. Also has simple editing tools on it (and a button called "i'm feeling lucky" that adjusts pics to what it thinks they need). 

Definitely sounds like ITBS.  I was laid up for 6 weeks last spring with it.  Problem is there are a million and one root causes for ITBS.  I was a physical therapist who was a runner.  She spotted that I was weak/inflexible in my hips and was very quad dominant.  Oh and my running form sucked.  My feet tended to open up like I was a duck.  Once I gave the injury time and fixed the root causes I've been set.  Also picked up a good amount of time on my run splits in the process.

You sound like you are describing me.  After years of squats and leg presses I am very quad dominant and when I was running this summer my hips and hip flexor would hurt the most.  I am very inflexible in the hips.  oh and I walk with my feet pointed out, it runs in the family. 

Is there anything that you could tell me to do.  I talked with a PT who wanted me to see an MD first and then come see them with  diagnosis...I hope not to have to do that.

Lets see.  We did lots of balance drills.  Standing on unstable surfaces on one leg and then squating or doing what essentially was a dead leg motion.  We did this a lot on a bosu ball.  Then we did lots of single legged plyometric exercises as well.  Explosive jumps out of a semi-squatted position, landing with the leg in perfect alignment from the foot to the hip.  Usually we'd do 5 to 6 exercises from the balance and plyo repetoir with 3 sets of 15 reps.  Then there was a lot of stretching.  I perfer to just do yoga, but if you google stretches for ITBS you'll find a lot of useful info.  All in all she told me 6 weeks until I was pain free on day 1 and it was 4 weeks until I was running and 6 until I was running pain free.

dp

Thanks- two questions

1. do you do maintenance exercises now (bosu ball or plyos)?

2. did it change your gait or the way you run?

Yes I still do plyo once a week.  I do balance drills lessbut should do them more.

Yes.  It made me more of a mid/fore foot striker.  I was always heel to mid if I really concentrated.  Oh I forgot I also let my foot strike way out in front instead of right underneath my body.  This helped a lot too.  Moving the strike point from the heel which puts all the inpact into your knee to the mid foot which moves a lot of the impact into your ankle helped immensely.

Thanks Scott and Carrie for the info.

I have done some foam roller as well and lots of stretching.  i will start doing some plyos and balance exercises and single leg exercises.

What hip exercises did you do?

Is your IT issue totally gone.

Merry Christmas from NZ everyone, 

No need for any trans-hemisphere jealousy this week, we are getting hammered by the remains of a tropical cyclone at the moment, so I'm back inside on the trainer again. Hopefully the weather will be on the improve by the weekend so I can get outside for my long ride. 

All this talk about Heart Rate training has me interested, I tired it briefly, in the middle of the year but didn't stick to it long enough to really give it a chance to work. Seeing as my goal for the year is to build a huge base for some serious racing in 2013 it sounds like I should be giving it another go. So next week I'll do the TT test and work out some cycling zones. (it's ok to do this on the trainer?) However, I'm not confident enough in my calf to run a 30 min TT yet, so is there any other way I can determine my running Zones? Or at this stage can I say that my cycling zones are close enough?

So, Jeff Sklarz and i went out last night, hada few beers, some wings and some general fun and talk about Tri's and this site and such, took the train home and instead of getting a cab, decided to run from the train station to home....about 3 miles....half drunk....HA!!!!

WTF was i thinking, lol!!!