Relief

Thursday I had an appointment to see a bio-movement specialist here in town. I was a bit nervous because I didn't want to hear about a long-term problem that would take me away from training. Fortunately that wasn't the case. Initially she had me stand up without shoes on to do a gait analysis and look at my hips. The first thing she says: "has anyone ever told you you have a short right leg?" Wonderful... at least that's fixable with an insert in my shoe. Then I do a few one leg squat exercises so she can see how my knee and ankle move. Nothing too crazy came out of that. Then I laid face down with my feet hanging off the edge of the table, and I find out I have a pretty big over-pronation. I was told more than double the normal pronation. So now I have a slight lift in my right shoe, and modified superfeet.

At the end of the appointment I ask if I can run and she tells me yes as if it's surprising I asked that question. Well, just a few days ago I had horrible hip pain and sharp knee pain. Are you saying I'm ready now and this is an easy fix?

So I head to the gym and get in 4.5 miles on the treadmill. No pain or anything! Hip was still a little tired, but nothing like it was. It felt great.

Now I'm back on hitting the workouts hard. Had a solid swim on Friday, 2 hour bike with 20 minute intervals and a 20 minute run on Saturday, and a 1 hour bike with 4x5minute intervals on Sunday. Today, as usual, I get worked over at masters. 3x300, 100 kick, 3x200, 100 kick, 3x100, 6x50 sprints. That was just the main set! Now off to Crossfit.

Now that my left hip and knee are feeling good and I'm back on training the only other fun news is with work. Last week was stressful with a few presentations, meetings, and reports due. I am really hating the cyclical nature of this job. 2 weeks every month I am working long hours. Then for the other 2 weeks I am in a lull... well sometimes in a lull.

Hope everyone's meeting their goals too!

The Hurt

Sorry I haven't posted much, but I haven't really found much to post about.

Lately, life has been training, working, training... Same 'ol same 'ol.

But, I have had a few visitors lately. L came over for a nice little visit on Christmas. We managed to hang in Seattle for a little bit and hit up Brouwer's and the Bottleshop. Other than that, what else do you do in Seattle? You get sushi! That's what. We also managed to cook an amazing five course meal all with beer pairings! Except I really dropped the ball on one of my pairings... my bad.

A then came over for New Year's. We had to once again kick it in Seattle for a bit and I managed to see a few other good friends. Plus we had some amazing greek food. Quite impressed.

That's the down and dirty lately. I have had a nice problem develop though. I started having a stupid hip flexor pain in my left hip, but managed to get rid of it. It then started to move to the outside of my hip. So now every time I run more than 5 miles my hips gets so sore the next day. Stupid. I have been staying off of it... for the most part. Toned down my running and kicked up my swimming. I still need to get the training hours in and get my base down.

Hopefully the leg starts feeling better so I can get back into running. For the first time ever I miss running. I used to absolutely hate my runs, but I've been doing so well the last few months that I've become slightly obsessed. Maybe that was my problem.

Hopefully things get more interesting soon, but I can't promise anything.

Here's my life. yep, riding the trainer baby!