Ramblings of an amatuer endurance athlete...
Last Sunday I had my first ever DNS, aka did not start. Leading up to any big race taper madness usually sets in and you get the feeling that you are sick or injured. All that time and effort training for the big race and you worry. Well last week, coincidentally the day after a [...]
I posted an update to Twitter the other day saying that Da Vinci wasn’t crazy, he just had the same ear infection I have” only to be corrected a million times that it was Van Gogh that cut off his ear. It reminded me of the comic below. Congrats to all of you who Googled [...]
The motto for Ironman Lake Placid this year is HTFU. Today I had to take that to a whole ‘nother level. Let’s recap…. Kicked in the head on the swim – black eye, could have quit. Flew into the forest at 30MPH – shoulders scraped and bloodied, knees scrapped and bloodied, various scrapes and bruises, [...]
Sunny and calm, that lasted about 5 minutes on today’s long run. By the time the 2hr 15min run was over I had run through winds up to 50KM/hr, rain, sleet, ice pellets, snow and cycled through all those conditions at least twice. When I got home I wasn’t sure if it was Spring, Summer, [...]
I made an appointment to see my sports doctor. There is a great sports medicine clinic in Burlington and I went there last year when I had an IT Band problem. This year things have been going well, no serious pains but some aches. Nothing that would register on the pain scale but at the [...]
Sounds complex, can hurt like hell, but pretty typical and easily treatable. I popped into Levy Elliot Sports Medicine today to have my left knee checked out and as I though it was ITBS. My Internet diagnosis was correct. ITBS is one of the leading causes of lateral knee pain in runners. The iliotibial band is a superficial thickening [...]
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