Category: Feet

Take the shoe-leather express

Louisville riverfront
Passed two news vehicles on the four-mile walk to work yesterday.

 

Louisville sunrise
Room service delivery arrived later yesterday, so the sun was higher than the day before when i reached this spot.

 

Take the shoe-leather express.

Also known as walking.

On top of consecutive days of long walking commutes, work involved six-plus hours of classroom standing.

It was quietly exhilarating to push myself to this rare extreme.

And the day-dream of spending a summer doing daily hikes through Glacier National Park was alive and well.

 

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Will 2017 be the year of a definitive diagnosis?

2009 Masters Track & Field World Outdoor Championships
Competed in 2009. Training for 2019 Worlds.

 

Will 2017 be the year of a definitive diagnosis?

Chronic lower right calf and right ankle pain has never been diagnosed.

i’d like to change that.

i will change it.

So i start 2017 by pushing harder for the answer.

 

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Seven months of zero to low mileage got tested

Wellness journey
Yesterday, first time in seven months running five miles… 8.03kilometers equals 5 miles.

 

Seven months of zero to low mileage.

Stopped running entirely in April and May.

The only reason i began running this summer was to help our son, you know, easy, 10-12 minutes per mile, one, two miles at most.

When he joined the Cross-Country team in August, i continued running two to three miles – three times a week – because the running was pain-free. The reason i stopped running was simple. It was painful.

Wanted to try one last ditch thing to eradicate chronic right ankle/calf pain.

i planned (and was excited to know it would be a 2016 milestone) to run five miles and the pace was slow enough to remain pain-free, and just enjoy the privilege.

 

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Crazy how important those three mornings are

Crazy how important those three mornings are.

Monday.

Wednesday.

Friday.

Each morning there’s a 25-mile roundtrip bicycle ride to the gym. About an hour each way, plus an hour in the gym.

And each bicycle ride means an additional day of no running.

i really like accumulating an increasing number of “rest-from-running” days.

Biking is healing a part of my whole that would be suffering if there was no legitimate replacement for running.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

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Get it done asap

Podiatrist knife
Tool of the trade for a Podiatrist.

 

Penny and splinter comparison
A tiny buildup, on the left, can cause excruciating pain.

 

Ran 9.5 miles yesterday morning and then headed to podiatrist to have a tiny buildup removed from the ball of my foot. Because the pain only began a week ago, i took care of it before it affected running.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our physical health. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s spiritual health website, click here.