Category: Stupid Injuries
So I ran a half marathon last Sunday. And despite it being my secondĀ worst finish time of the 14 half marathons that I have run, it turned out to be the one that required the most perseverance and I am actually proud to have finished, yet a bit mad at myself for even having run […]
Life seems to have gotten extra busy, so I’m resorting to writing this blog posting on my phone during my morning commute [and then posting it tonight, now that I’m home from my hockey game, with a few edits made and photos inserted!], despite just yesterday saying to my sister “I don’t know how you […]
Hey, remember that time I rolled my ankle one week before the Scotiabank half marathon, but I was all “it’s just a little tweak and I’m totes going to be fine to run 21.1 km in a week”? Yeah, so, apparently that “little tweak” was a “grade 1 sprain” and I was totes not fine […]
… and this is what my left ankle looks like: š While out for a run yesterday, IĀ stepped on an uneven bit of pavement and went over on my ankle a bit. I felt the tweak at the time it happened, but it didn’t hurt and so I continued on my merry way. And I […]
It has been 14 weeks since I started training for the Montreal demi-marathon. This training has been quite a bit different than my previous training sessions. Differences include: Over those 14 weeks, I’ve run all my runs straight through – no more 10-and-1s for me. I’ve run the majority of my runs in my zone […]
So the other day I decided that I probably should do some ironing, given that I had a tonne of wrinkly clothes hanging in my closet that weren’t getting unwrinkly on their own. Now, I don’t have a very good track record with ironing. The last time I attempted it, I broke my coffee table’s […]
And while we are talking about my exercise goals, let’s take a look at how I did on my pushup goal! Goal: 1,300 Completed: 1,385 Success! I completed 107% of my goal! Luckily, I did a *lot* of pushups early in the year (see Figure 1 ((I haven’t yet graphed my running and biking numbers, […]
As I mentioned previously, my IT band hates me and I bought a foam roller to try to torture said IT band into submission. Foam rollers, for the uninitiated, are cylinders made of styrofoam that you roll your body over to work out knots (a.k.a., “trigger points”) and tightness of your various body parts. My […]
In the constant battle against my own muscles which are apparently trying to kill me of late, I had forgotten about one of the most wonderful tools in my arsenal – Epsom salt baths! Now, I have to say first of all, I have *no idea* if there is any scientific evidence to support Epsom […]
Here are the stairs I fell down yesterday: OK, I realize that I only fell down one of these stairs – the very bottom one specifically. But given how beat up I feel today – achy back/shoulder/leg/wrist – I’m revising my story to say that I fell down a flight of stairs. Possibly I was […]