Bridge Run Photos

Finally I have been able to get my Bridge Run photos

One the best days of my life, a running dream come true

 

Respite

Feeling a little respite from the back pain. I think that is what is really plagueing me at the moment. The tape puts my back out. After work the nerve pain was driving me crazy.

At home I took off the tape put on the Nike Air Pegasus, and then had the good ol VMO firing at the better than 1:1 ratio. You don’t have to squeeze the hell out of the qauds to get it firing. All you need is a gentle persuasion. 

It’s amazing how you can go from agony one minute to relief the next. I think I’ve finally got the handle on the VMO isolation malarky.  

The Flying Pieman

In an extraordinary feat of pedestrianism I walked the Mutton bird Island circuit in 63:11. Two minutes faster than last weekend. Wasn’t compeletely pain free. My groin was sore and my back. There was pain on the inside of the knee. More of an ache than a stinging, oh no, here we go again type pain. This I’ve been wearing the Nike Air Pegasus and I like them. They don’t give me blisters.

My knee still flicks over a piece of roughness on the inside and outside of the knee. This fires it up. I suppose the amount of irritation that is there is not too bad for just walking a brisk 7km this morning.

In the watches of the night

Did a fifty minute walk tonight. I decided that my knee felt good. These new shoes are great. I think I’m getting as close to inflammation free as I have been for over a year and a half.

I ran into a fellow from work. Well he worked there a few months back on a temporary basis. He was eating an al frecso dinner at one of the Jetty restuarants.  Told me he was working on a boat at the Jetty and was going to head north into Queensland. Good luck to him.

I walked to the base of Muttonbird Island Hill, then back via Park Beach. Bumped into a person walking their dog. I walked along for a bit. Then the man and his dog went sprinting by. He let the dog off the leash. Eventually he turned around and went back, leaving me alone with the sand and darkness. I like walking alone in the dark, with only the hushing backwash and my breathing for company.

Walking back up the hill past the Jetty Pub, I thought I am winning this battle, I can beat this knee injury. I even jogged a few steps to beat a car. I really gritted my teeth and worked up into the hill. To  be able to walk properly, I’ve worked hard for nearly 8 months to do that. What a long, long battle.

Other least favourite phrases.

“and I’m like……”

“whateva, togeva, foreva, neva” Singers like Avril Lavigne, The Veronicas seem to finish any word with ever as eva. It sounds brainless.

Then there’s Missy Higgins, who has a bad case of Poidaitis (Poida was an Aussie bogan played by Eric Bana on Full Frontal).

“The sound of whoite, moite, swoite.” I think she’s trying to hard to sound Australyan.

“Abosutely.” The most overused adverb

Coffs Creek Walk

Another 6km walk this morning. The Adidas Supernova Cushions are the shoe that give me the most relief. The walk was better than last week. A lot less lateral knee pain than last Sunday. My whole body enjoys the exercise. It is only my knee that is holding me back. I’m not looking forward to sitting at my desk next week. That really irritates the whole thing.

Just did a 6.6km walk up Muttonbird Island Hill.

Walk rating 8/10. My best walk since February. Today I bought a pair of Adidas Supenova Cushion and Controls. I wore the controls on this avo’s walk and they went very well.

A gripe about journalists. I hate the way they use the words, ”the ( insert paper’s name) can now reveal”. It’s such a cliched term. Usually what they ‘”can now reveal”, is what every man and his dog already knows. They go on like it’s a huge scoop.   

Some reading this blog probably think I have dyslexia. However, the abundant typos are actually caused by having a mad cockatield jumping all over the keyboard, chewing my ear, and biting any cord in range of her beak.

Sans orthotics

After trying combinations of taping and orthotics this week I have decided that they are contributing to my lateral knee pain. I took them off last night and my knee pain dimished immediately. Perhaps the motion control features ( Adidas Supernova Cushions) in my new shoes are enough to overcome my apparent pronation problems? I probably should make an appointment with a good podiatrist next time I’m down in Sydney. If I can be relatively pain free without the orthotics then that is the option I need to move ahead with. last night I was wlaking resonably freely without tape at all.

Might be winning part IIa

The knee and cracking pain continues to be less. I’ve been observing my foot placement with these new shoes. I land on my heel, roll from the outside arch inward towards the ball of the foot. I think that is a normal stride in terms of pronation and supination. I think with the orthotics I roll out too much a that hurts the lateral side of my knee. Tonight the knee feels good.

Good News

Had a story accepted for the Black Box e Anthology, which I am really happy about. Apparently the editor received hundreds of submissions. So it was a fairly competive selection. There where some aspects of the story the editor said needed work. Great that it was accepted despite needing some work. This will be my seventh story published.

Also my knee hasn’t been too bad today. The new shoes and taping technique are bringing me some relief. I put some bandaids on that have cleared up the nasty blister. My ankle has been bleeding the last few days.  

Might be winning Part II

This morning my leg was sore. Probably because I overdid it yesterday. I did the Jetty_Park Beach 4km walk this morning. I started the walk and my leg felt a bit iffy. It took until after half way for things to improve. I left the heart rate monitor at work so I don’t know what time I did. Would have been slow because I wasn’t pushing hard at all. I ate some lunch at the near park the beach. Walking back to the car I decided that my knee had settled down pretty well. I decided to go and buy a pair of Nike Air Pegasus’s at Athletes foot. I wore them for a while, but put the Adidas Supernova Cushions back on. Walking aorund the shopping centre I thought I was winning the battle against knee pain today. The Supernova Cushions are a fabulous shoe. If I can walk pain free without the orthortics I should go for it.  I don’t understand the biomechanics of this, but why ask questions? If it works it works.  

The other thing I am doing differently is taping the knee lower on the patella, right behind the triangular edge. This does seem to really push it across. The half off half on tpae doesn’t seem to have enough oomph behind it.  

I’m currently looking like being 5/5 in the footy tipping.  A good week tipping will move me up the ladder. The leader of the comp is way ahead of me though.

Battle of the Maltracking patella

Silly me, I went for 2 X 6.6km Muttonbird Island circuits today. Orthotics are gone. The nightmare isn’t over this mornings walk wasn’t as good as last night.  The Adidas Supernova Cushion are a nice shoe. My walk tonight wasn’t too bad. I’m imagining that the knee cap IS pushing over. I’m not sure if I am suffering from knee pain or not, it’s more like dysfunctional leg pain. The pain comes from everywhere.

Tonight I had my second nose bleed of the week. A real gusher. I had to stick a shopping docket up my nose until I got to a service station, and could get some dunny paper, then buy some kleenexs. I was just driving along and a torrent came out of my nostril. Nasty. I lost quite a lot of blood, felt a bit faint afterwards