Running Chick

Sunday, May 9. 2010

Snow!

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Just outside of L'anse, looks like at least 2" on the ground. Haven't seen that stuff since March. -- mobile post

Sunday, April 25. 2010

Long overdue update

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It's pretty clear that when I'm not running, I'm not blogging!

The last time I did any running was back on April 9th. I did 4.5-ish miles on the Tech Trails and could barely walk the next day due to knee\inner thigh pain. So, I just decided to stop.

At first I thought I might have pes anserine bursitis, but my symptoms didn't quite fit the profile. Finally, after much scouring of the internets, I landed on a sartorious muscle strain. I found this great link which listed all the typical symptoms of a sartorius strain, but I forgot to bookmark the link (dummy) and now I can't find the darn thing. In any event, after reading the article, I was pretty convinced that's what I had.

I finally got my insoles back with an additional adjustment to my arch. It’s 1/4”, but it looks a lot bigger. I’ve been wearing them regularly in my old running shoes but I haven’t done any running in them yet. My plan is to take the rest of April off and then pick up my half marathon training plan again in May in the hopes of doing the Appleton HM in September.

Insoles with arch adjustment

Original insoles

In the meantime, I've been having fun crashing my new bike! Fortunately, since all my crashes seem to happen when I get tangled up in loose sand, my landings have been on soft ground. Unfortunately, my legs look like somebody took a baseball bat to them. Hawt!

Jamis Durango 1.0

Josh and I broke out the cruisers a few weeks ago and we've been bopping all over Calumet with them. It’s funny, we get lots of compliments on them but most people refer to them as "old timey bikes" or "antique bikes" rather than cruisers.

Simon’s health has been stable for about three weeks now. His appetite has not been what I’d like it to be, but he is eating, and the constant vomiting seems to have stopped. Last month, I started tracking how often he was throwing up and it turned out in March, he threw up 17 out of 31 days. Most of those 17 days were in the first half of the month. So far in April, he’s thrown up five times. I think this is probably as good as it’s going to get with him.

Spencer has been doing really well. He’s been reaping the benefits of me having to feed Simon tuna to get his thyroid pill down (can’t give one tuna without the other), and he’s been putting weight on. He sleeps a bunch, pretty typical for a 15-year-old cat, but he will still race around the house like a crazy fool. One of these days I’ll dedicate a post to his water drinking habits and how I saved my sanity by teaching him how to turn on the bathroom faucet himself.