Not a lot going on last week. I spent most of the week trying to get over a cold, so no pool running or other gym activity. I felt uniformly cruddy while keeping up with my usual obligations for the first half of the week, but I went home early both Thursday and Friday afternoons […]
Pretending I like water: LCL recovery week 4
I do like drinking water, just so we’re clear. I’m fine with looking at water, and floating on top of it. But being immersed in water is not one of my favorite things. Even hot baths only sound appealing every once in a while. Water makes you soaking wet, is usually too cold if it’s […]
Yellowstone City 30K recap
I ran the Yellowstone City 30K on September 23rd. This recap is really long without any intro blather, so I’m going to jump right in. The race was mainly an out-and-back, but the start and finish diverged slightly to begin and end at two different lodges in Paradise Valley (the area north of the north […]
Forward motion: LCL recovery week 3
Guess what! I barely notice my strained LCL now…well, as long as I don’t ask anything of it beyond walking on flat ground and the occasional set of stairs. So, still a long way from 100%, but progress. This week I finally scheduled a trip to sample some groundwater wells in eastern Montana. I’ve been […]
Naps? and LCL recovery week 2
More of the same as last week – I went to physical therapy and worked. Knee stuff My physical therapist continued ASTYM on my LCL this week (thanks to Wendy for reminding me of the official term for the “metal scraper thing”). She also started using it on the IT band on the same leg, […]
LCL recovery, week 1
So…knee injury recovery is what you really want to read a series of posts on over the next few weeks, right? If you said “uhhh…no?”, you can skip to the bottom of this and future posts for the recap of other events of questionable interest. But I’ll try to make the recovery recaps at least […]
The “so that’s not happening” week in review
Short version: I thought my knee pain had gone away, but I was wrong. Long version: keep reading…if you want 500 words about my knee. Probably about as fascinating as it sounds. Mon-Tues Monday all my joints felt mostly back to normal. I went to a restorative yoga class, then did my first strength workout […]
The 3 Rs: rest, research, “recovery”
Those are the 3 Rs of a post-race week, right? Ok…maybe the one in the middle doesn’t belong. But since I did little this week outside of work, I thought I’d give you a short description of my research instead of a short description of my runs. The pictures aren’t as pretty though. Rest I […]
‘Tis the season…(not THAT season)
Lest anyone be misled by the title: I am emphatically not one of those people who gets excited about Christmas the second the calendar says it’s fall. One month at a time, please. But since fall has officially made its appearance, we can get excited about that now. Fall means that ’tis the season…. For […]
The start-of-school whirlwind review, and Glacier
Even though I am done with the classwork for my PhD, it still takes a few weeks to adjust to a new school year. It’s partly just having a more structured schedule, but it’s also that the school year still manages to be busier than summer. I’m teaching 4 sections of a freshman lab this […]