Hey everyone, I've decided to blog after reading many other people's blogs and I thought that it'd be cool to look back after a year and see how far I've come.
Well, for everyone out there, I just graduated highschool and I ran xc and track my senior year. I decided to skip golf since I got my letterman's patch and that was my big goal in highschool sports. Too bad I was too enthusiastic about my new running career and getting hurt in the first few weeks. Shin splints. Those 'lil devils suck. After almost a year I'm not running 20 mile weeks. WOOHOO!!! I've been told that I wasn't ever going to be able to run more then 3 times a week.
Now, I am running but my left shin has been bugging for about 2 weeks. But with going to the chiro 3 times a week, he thinks I should be nice and dandy. So this is going to be what I'm going through and what obstacles I face along the way to try and be a runner and a triathlete. Yes, I'm also training for that too, there's alot that you don't know about me but eventually you'll probably know me better then myself!
Let's start off by saying that I ran 4 - 4 and a half miles today. Now I only need to run 3 miles tomorrow and that'll cap off my first 20 mile week. And I just felt my shin and it feels pretty amazing. Thanks to my chiro today, he really popped my pelvis back in place. It's been buggin for a while and he'd crack my back but it didn't seem like it was going in. O, but I felt it this time. It probably was going in the other times, I just know that the right lower corner of my back was the first to pop when he twisted me. It was a awesome feeling.
Then eating at denny's was kinda fun. It was more fun to just be there. Since I'm lactose intolerant, it kinda sucks to only eat french fries and sausage.
It was fun though, and isn't that what life should be?
1 comments:
I used to have bad shin splints, I'm a forefoot runner and found the cause of this to be weak stabilizer muscles, I did two things to rid myself of them, one I did an exercise where you stand on one leg balanced with the other bent and then lift up on your toes, do this I don't know about 10 or 20 times on each foot, then do the same movement standing on both feet till you seriously cannot do them anymore, not only will this give you good strong calves it will also give more muscle to absorb impact. The 2nd exercise is to get into the same position as the first except this time lean forward and touch the ground bending at the waist and hips with your fingers, then back up, do these all the time, and I think your shin splints will go away. If your trying to jump start yourself, just take one day and do them to exhaustion, then rest till the tightness goes away, and begin your training. The nice thing about these exercises is that they simulate running except in a more focused broken down manner so they really get your muscles growing, and help to alleviate other future potential injuries.
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