Without any pain or burning sensation. I have the biggest internal grin on (trying to hide my giddiness from my coworkers :))!! Went to the PT afterwards for the 2nd steroid patch. Plan is to have a third sometime later this week. (Apparently 8-10 is the equivalent to a cortisone injection… yikes… glad my body…
I honestly think I needed this break. Don’t get me wrong. I was loving what I was doing – reaching higher weekly mileage totals than I ever had before, working harder than I thought possible, etc. My greatest joy now is beating my body into oblivion. On the other hand, though, I was struggling a…
Anyone know how to treat this QUICKLY? It came on Thursday after a hard/long Wednesday evening run. I’ve never had Achilles trouble before, so I’m a little perplexed that it came on so quickly and has been so bad. Generally it feels bruised/tight when walking around. Running on it Thursday it had a burning sensation….
I have talked before about how working with a sports psychologist made a huge difference in my race at Grandma’s. Dr. Asp in Red Wing is that psychologist, and the Red Wing newspaper recently did an article about him working with runners. It is mostly about his work with the high school team, but I…
Today is the start of a 105 mile week… uff! To be followed up by a 95 mile week. This is the highest 2-week average I’ll have in the build for the Trials. I’m excited to work this hard, but also a little scared of the workouts scheduled. They’re crazy hard, even without all of…
I was excited to try a hard workout by myself. Jerry mentioned earlier in this cycle that I needed to make sure I could hit some of these key workouts solo to help build confidence and mental toughness. So I started out & imagined hitting all of my goal times & being able to email…