As a person who has had many, many half-assed attempts at physical therapy, I have to ask myself: Why is it so hard to stick with it? I know I’m not alone here. Granted, most of the time I could not keep going to the therapist for monetary reasons, so I would get my sheet [...][...]
Archive for the ‘IT Band’ Category
June 21st, 2010 - 10:35 am § in Deep Thoughts, Food & Diet, IT Band, Injury, Precision Nutrition, Spinal Injury
Two weeks down
It’s been two weeks and a day since The Incident. Saturday I managed to walk to Mount Tabor, although I had to sit on a bench for a while when I got there, and walk back. Yesterday I walked to the Academy Theater, watched a movie, and walked back, about 1.2 miles each way. The [...][...]
New Plan – achey knees be gone!
I’m really really tired of constantly dealing with sore knees. I sound like a record, Oh tons of steep climbing? can’t–knees…. Oh you want to go on a three mile hike? Last time I did that I couldn’t walk for a week–my knees….oh Cyclocross? can’t doR[...]
Feeling Bipolar: Revelations, PN & PT
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 [...][...]
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[...]
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 [...]
