Another Delay to Action?
Well, it seems to have happened again. Swimming season finished up Thursday, and Friday I hurt my knee. I’m not even entirely sure how I did it. Throughout the day Friday my knee felt like it was pinching inside when I went up stairs. I twisted it Friday night at a hockey game. Unfortunately, I wasn’t playing, but rather watching. My aircraft carrier sized feet caught on the seats as I was going down the aisle. My left knee twisted a bit. I hurt for a couple of minutes, but that’s pretty common.
When I woke up this morning my knee was a tiny bit swollen and hurt. It wasn’t that stabby kind of hurt that I usually get though. It was a strange feeling of pressure in the middle of my knee. Really high pressure. I haven’t been able to fully extend my knee all day, and I couldn’t even carry my son up to bed tonight because it was too weak. If this doesn’t get better after tomorrow, I guess I’ll be finding a local knee doctor to take a look. Here’s to another day with the ace wrap and ice packs.
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The end is near
I realize how lazy I’ve been lately with posting. It’s probably because the last few times I’ve typed a post, it didn’t actually publish, even though I pushed publish. Oh well.
Boys swimming season is almost over. After next Thursday, I have a month off before track starts. Yipppee! Most practices, I swim anywhere from only 200 yards up to 500 yards total. I usually swim at least 300 yards of that at once.
Today, I went for 400 yards. I swam it in a total time of 10:30.84. Not fast, but better than what I swam in my triathlon last summer. The first 200 was in 5:31.33, and the second in 4:59.51. The negative split makes me feel good at least.
I find that my bad back has haunted me this season. I don’t have the core strength that I did last year. That really effects the effectiveness of the my kicking. Very little hip motion. That makes things hard. At least my big feet are like mini flippers.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 01/28/2010
- Time: 15:00:00
- Total Time: 00:01:20.00
- Calories: 18
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Christmas Eve Run 13.0
The 13th Annual Christmas Eve Run came with many questions as to whether it could be completed. I haven’t run since October, and I’m dealing with severe back pain, which was the result of slippping on ice and landing on my sacrum. But, with massive amounts of stretching, ibuprofin, and heat packs, my back loosened up enough to attempt to keep the streek alive.
13 years ago, my brother and I began this crazy tradition as a way to maintain fitness and training over Christmas break during school. The second year we instituted a 1 mile minimum distance. That was due to freezing rain and sleet that came up about a 1/2 mile in. We usually ran about 3-4 miles each year. But, this year I called upon the 1 mile minimum once again. It’s a good thing too. About 3/4 mile in I slipped on some ice and my left leg shot out to the side. That caused my back to twinge and I nearly fell over. Fortunately, or unfortunately, however you look at it, the shortest way back home was to keep running the route. I slipped a couple of more times on some slush, but over all had a good run. Slow, but good.
Post run I did as much stretching as I could. I found that the run actually loosened up my back enough that I didnt’ need to use a heat pack anymore. Bonus! Until next Christmas eve. Well, I hope not that long 
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 12/24/2009
- Time: 11:00:00
- Total Time: 00:11:53.29
- Calories: 244
- Distance: 1.5 miles
- Average Pace: 7:55.56/mile
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Ow, that hurt.
I started out the swimming season today on a great note, and then a stupid one. I took on a “part-time” assistant coaching position for the girls’ swim team. I’ll only be coaching them 2 days a week while the regular coach has another commitment. Anyway, I started off the practice with a nice 200 meters that went very well. i was extremely pleased. After that I did some back and forth stuff watching the kids’ form. I probably did another 150-200 meters of that.
Then, while we were practicing flip turns, I demonstrated to one of the kids how to push off the wall. Well, I managed to get an extremely painful cramp in both calf muscles at once! If we weren’t in the shallow end of the pool, I may have drown. That was now almost 5 hours ago, and I still can barely stretch them out. I’ve tried every trick in my athletic training knowledge. I think I’m officially getting old.
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 10/13/2009
- Time: 15:53:39
- Total Time: 00:00:00.00
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Tornado Alley Run 5k
It was cold, rainy, and slightly breezy this morning for the run. I showed up an hour and a half early to make sure I had time to stretch and get warmed up. My hip and achilles were pretty tight yesterday, so I used the time well. At race time it was about 52 degrees and there was a light rain. For racing, it was just about perfect. I didn’t overheat at all. I had a goal going to in stay with/beat one of my old buddies that just beat me by a few seconds last year. After about a 1/4 mile in today, I thought that was bust becuase he was long gone ahead of me.
The first mile came in 7:10. I was pretty happy with that, and I knew I was pushing a little to hit that. Mile two was a little slower (had the only hill of the run) in 7:38. At this point I was looking at time and trying to beat last years time.
With a half mile to go, I looked up ahead, and there was my buddy. I kicked it up and tried to close. I ran the thrid mile in 7:36, for a total time of 22:26. The last two blocks I ran so hard to catch the guy that I went into that halucinating/outer-body experience feeling. I ended up about 100 feet shy of catching him (and placing 3rd in my division), which was closer than last year. The time thing gets me though. I felt much better today than last year, but ran 3 seconds slower. Oh well, I now have a time and place goal for next year.
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 10/03/2009
- Time: 08:30:00
- Total Time: 00:22:26.00
- Calories: 498
- Distance: 3.1 miles
- Average Pace: 7:14.26/mile
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Hmmmm, That’s a Strange Sensation
The hip strikes again! Sort of. I have been noticing my IT band getting sore again the last few weeks. I’ve been fairly diligant with stretching and icing on a regular basis. More so lately with all of the running I’ve been doing.That’s not my worry though.
The strange sensation comes in my left achillies. For the past couple of weeks or so, it was really tight when I woke up in the morning. I thought it had something to do with the way I’ve been sleeping. So, I stretch it out every morning and go about my day. This past Saturday, I noticed it was tight most of the day. Sunday it started cramping up my calf. Today, it was pulling badly behind my knee. Yikes!
I did some stretching throughout the day, and sometimes it loosens up. Sometimes, it makes it worse. Now, I’m in a pickle about Saturday’s race. I’ve already paid and have been confirmed. I guess we’ll see how things go the next couple of days. Grading papers tonight should give the leg a rest. Hopefully that helps.
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And It’s Over!
Well, the jr. high cross country season is over. My team had a great season and worked their backsides off. All of the hard work paid off as the team ran amazingly well at Wednesday’s City Finals. Of the 19 kids on my team, 9 of them medaled in the top 10 of their divisions. My boys team came in as the defending champions from last year. The 8th grade boys destroyed the field as they took 4 of the top 10 places, including 1st place. My last runner was 15th. That was pretty sweet. Two of my 7th grade boys were in the top 10 as well. All said and told, the boys won the championship again by over 12 points! It was awesome to see the kids run hard and then celebrate. My principal even went nuts when I told her.
The end of the season also means the end of regular built-in workout time. Thankfully, it’s only a week until my next 5K. After a couple of days off this weekend, I should be ready to run next Saturday.
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God Bless the new Adrenaline 9
It’s been a loooong time since I’ve posted anything here. Mostly, because I haven’t done any working out. Shortly after my triathlon in July I got really bad back pain and couldn’t even stand for more than a hour before it hurt to move. After some good rest, stretching, and lots of icing, I started working out last week. That’s because cross country season started a week ago. The first run was in the old, completely shot Adrenalines. I could barely move that night. Then, I picked up a new pair of the 9s, and WOW! They’re the best ones yet ( I should know, I’m on pair #8). So, thank you to Brooks for making the new kicks. Because of them, I’ve been keeping pace with the kids on the team and best of all, I can still move when I’m done. Go GTS 9!!!!!
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Water’s Edge Triathlon- Algona, IA
Well, put tri number 1 in the books folks. I did it. I completed the Water’s Edge Triathlon in Algona, IA. Things were a bit shaky at times, but I did okay for my first one, and for not being in top shape. Here are the times by my watch (still waiting for chip times)
500 yd Swim (including run to TA)- 14:07.08
T1- 4:18.53 I don’t have fancy bike shoes, so I had to put on my running shoes etc
21k Bike (including transition to run)- 48:34.23
5k Run- 29:17.44 (m1: 9:01, m2: 9:12, m3: 11:03)
Total: 1:36:17
I was most worried about the swim, but it ended up being the easiest part. I got stuck behind a lot of people so I was forced to relax and slow down a bit. It helped a lot. The bike was rather interesting. The wind changed directions 3 times during the ride. The last 4 miles were straight into it. The run was just bad. My hip cramped up on the bike so it made running on the uneven grass and dirt pretty painful. The steep hills on the first 1/4 of the route didn’t help any either. I had to walk the two steepest hills because I couldn’t lift my leg up high enough to run. But, in the end I finished strong and now have a goal for next year.
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T- 6 days and counting
Well, the time is almost upon me. My triathlon is this coming Sunday. THings are looking pretty sketchy at the moment, but I’m going for it anyway. I’ve been planning this foray into crazy town for a full year now. I really think that if I hadn’t messed up my hip, I would be much more prepared than I am right now. I’m basically planning to do one more light bike/run night, and then one more easy run before the race. I’m sure I’ll end p taking my son on a bike ride (trailer) again too. He really likes it, and it gives me a workout without having to go riding for an hour.
As my son’s favorite cartoon character, Mickey Mouse says, “Well, better get going. Lots to do you know!”
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