Long post alert! Well, half of me feels great. I am on day 5 of Precision Nutrition, and I have had 100% compliance. I think the thing I am most proud of right now is the fact that I have gone out twice to bars and have ordered tea. And it wasn’t even horrible. I wasn’t [...][...]
Archive for the ‘Injury’ Category
Bitch time
Warning, warning, warning: I will be bitching about my knees for a few paragraphs. People ask me what part of my knees hurt. Well. Let’s see, where should I start? When I’m biking, right below my left knee on the back of my calf hurts (no my saddle isn’t too low). Sometimes the fro[...]
Winter cycling hibernation
I’ve been essentially off the bike since Hillsboro; I’ve only done a handful of long endurance rides, but otherwise I’ve only been doing yoga, strength training, and intervals on the elliptical and the gazelle-type machine at the gym (the only thing that doesn’t make my knees[...]
Finally, foam rolling actually did something
I admit I was skeptical that foam rolling twice a day and icing afterward would actually do anything for my knees. After years of problems, I’m pretty pessimistic when it comes to overuse injuries. Well, I’ve been keeping my workouts very light, absolutely no running, no hill climbing, n[...]
A day
5:12am. My alarm sounds. I think there is some sort of emergency as I am shocked from sleep into the darkness of early morning. I hit snooze, only to realize, yep, it’s time to wake up. Before my soft jersey sheets can draw me back to slumber, I flip on my lamp and leap out [...][...]
Pulling the trigger on Trigger Point
If you’ve been following my blog(s) since my running days (there’s a 99.999% chance you have not), then you may know of my eternal IT Band struggles. I used to try to kneel at the alter of the Foam Roller, but except for a few months here or there, I just could not keep it [...][...]
Week suck
Well, I did get out and ride pretty darn hard on Tuesday night. In fact, once we crested Skyline at a vomit-inducing pace, my legs were pretty much completely fried and I had to limp home. Usually I’m not like that, so I figured I must still be achey from that killer race on Sunday. [...][...]
More on Running and IT Band fun good times
I went on a run this past Saturday–I didn’t post about it because I was too frustrated. I went to Forest Park. Wildwood. It was fairly cold, windy, a bit rainy, but I didn’t care, because I hadn’t run on a trail in a long time. I love the freedom from the treadmill: savoring [...]
All things not biking
I swam on Tuesday, I was going to swim for about an hour then do some weight training, but I ended up swimming for like an hour & 20 minutes, so I decided to not do the weight training thing. It was awesome, I felt really good, even though I hadn’t swam in a week [...][...]
Injuries update
Since I haven’t been running for the last month and a half (basically since Blue Lake), I haven’t had any issues with my IT Band. Although that doesn’t mean I won’t when I start again…I haven’t been very diligent about doing my hip exercises or working with the fo[...]
