Sunday:
am) Bike: 75 miles 3:46:33 Long Ride
Run: 6 miles 52:53 (ran on the treadmill after the ride)
Monday:
am) Swim: 3200 yards 1 hour
am) Bike: 33 miles 1:40:38
Biked after the swim. Had to fly to NY in the afternoon.
Tuesday:
am) Run: 8.8 miles 1:09:34 Intervals
pm) Bike: 15 miles 46:08
Wednesday:
am) Run: 11 miles 1:29:05 Tempo
Thursday:
am) Elliptical: 1:31:13 (Wrote down 10 running miles for this effort)
pm) Bike: 15 miles 47:45
Weights: 30 minutes
Friday:
am) Run: 7.2 miles 1:06:05 Recovery Run
Saturday:
am) Run: 17 miles 2:30:12 Long Run
Totals:
Swim: 3200 yards 1 hour
Bike: 138 miles 7:01:04
Run: 60 miles 8:39:02
Weights: 30 minutes
17 hours for the week, not bad. I was in New York again this week from Monday afternoon till very late Friday night. My flight didn't get into Green Bay until 11pm, 12 est and I had been up at 4:30 est that day. Friday was a long day. I definitely felt the effects of flying late on Saturday morning's run. I got my long ride and brick in on Sunday. Monday I swam and biked, worked from home for a bit, then flew to NY. Got there around 9:30 est. Tuesday I did my intervals on the treadmill at the hotel fitness center. Those treadmills are about 0.1 miles off I think based on my time and PE (perceived exertion), pace is off too but I have to figure out the conversion on that one yet. Good interval set. I was able to get a short ride in at night. That bike in the fitness center is not comfortable. I miss mine at home. Wednesday I got up feeling good so I said I would run 5-8 miles. Wound up doing 11. I felt really good. Thursday I did the elliptical, I didn't want to run 6 days in a row so Thursday was a good day to do something different. I like that elliptical there. It gives me a good workout. My heart rate mirrors my effort on the bike, maybe just a tad higher. I got to bike and do a weight session at night too. Friday I did my recovery run. This run was tougher. I like mixing up the pace like I did on Tuesday and Wednesday. Keeps things more lively on the mill. Flew home Friday afternoon/evening. Saturday ran with Mark and Asher. They both did awesome. I felt light headed and tired for pretty much the whole run. I could feel the effects of traveling for the week. We made it though. Only two weeks til LA. I can't wait!! I get to stay home now for 2 weeks until LA. It will be nice to get back into my rhythm again.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Training February 21-27, 2010
Sunday:
am) Bike: 71 miles 3:35:41 Long Ride
Run: 6.6 miles 1:00:07 Brick (ran after the bike ride on the treadmill)
Monday:
am) Swim: 3200 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 35 miles 1:46:36 Tempo
Tuesday:
am) Run: 6 miles 45:27 Intervals
pm) Bike: 27 miles 1:21:35 Intervals
Weights: 45 minutes (at home after the bike ride)
Wednesday:
am) Run: 8 miles 1:09:21 Tempo
pm) Bike: 43 miles 2:11:16 Mid-week Long Ride
Run: 3 miles 25:10 (Run after the bike ride on the treadmill)
Thursday:
am) Swim: 3200 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 30 miles 1:32:22 Recovery ride
Friday:
am) Run: 6.2 miles 57:21 Recovery run
Saturday:
am) Run: 20.2 miles 3:02:30 Long Run
Totals:
Swim: 6400 yards 2 hours
Bike: 206 miles 10:27:30
Run: 50 miles 7:19:56
Weights: 45 minutes
I was in Green Bay this whole week, just on the phone all week training at work. It was nice being home and getting back in my normal routine. Sunday was my normal long ride followed by a run. I have been trying out new nutrition on the bike and feel good on the start of the run but get light headed about 15 minutes in. I think it's a lack of sugar but I'm not sure. I have been trying to eat some honey stingers towards the end of the bike but so far it's not helping. I'll keep working on it. Monday was a swim with Mark and Chris and a bike ride in the evening. Went to Dr. Ebben today as well. Tuesday Asher and I did our intervals. We had to do mile repeats so I thought we would warm up then get going but he was ready to go out the door and I felt good so I went with it. Turned out to be a really good run and we really pushed the hard segments. Intervals on the bike at night followed up by a good weight session. Tuesday's are tough. Wednesday morning we met Mark and Tammy for a run in the snow. It snowed a couple inches over night. It was really pretty. Did a longer bike ride at night and a quick 3 mile run after the bike ride. I pushed the pace on the run to see how fast I could go before getting out of zone 3. I got going pretty good. It was really cool. Thursday was a swim with Mark and Chris and I did a nice easy recovery ride at night. Definitely needed a recovery ride. Asher got his hair cut on Thursday (4 months since his last one, he was a bushy beast :) so Friday morning I did my recovery run on the treadmill. Just nice and easy. It was 0 out so I figured Asher would be too cold out there. Saturday Mark and I did our long run. We wanted to get one more 20 miler in before LA. This one went pretty good. He got a hand held bottle so we practiced drinking and our nutrition. We felt better about it than the week before. Good week of training. 20 1/2 hours.
am) Bike: 71 miles 3:35:41 Long Ride
Run: 6.6 miles 1:00:07 Brick (ran after the bike ride on the treadmill)
Monday:
am) Swim: 3200 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 35 miles 1:46:36 Tempo
Tuesday:
am) Run: 6 miles 45:27 Intervals
pm) Bike: 27 miles 1:21:35 Intervals
Weights: 45 minutes (at home after the bike ride)
Wednesday:
am) Run: 8 miles 1:09:21 Tempo
pm) Bike: 43 miles 2:11:16 Mid-week Long Ride
Run: 3 miles 25:10 (Run after the bike ride on the treadmill)
Thursday:
am) Swim: 3200 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 30 miles 1:32:22 Recovery ride
Friday:
am) Run: 6.2 miles 57:21 Recovery run
Saturday:
am) Run: 20.2 miles 3:02:30 Long Run
Totals:
Swim: 6400 yards 2 hours
Bike: 206 miles 10:27:30
Run: 50 miles 7:19:56
Weights: 45 minutes
I was in Green Bay this whole week, just on the phone all week training at work. It was nice being home and getting back in my normal routine. Sunday was my normal long ride followed by a run. I have been trying out new nutrition on the bike and feel good on the start of the run but get light headed about 15 minutes in. I think it's a lack of sugar but I'm not sure. I have been trying to eat some honey stingers towards the end of the bike but so far it's not helping. I'll keep working on it. Monday was a swim with Mark and Chris and a bike ride in the evening. Went to Dr. Ebben today as well. Tuesday Asher and I did our intervals. We had to do mile repeats so I thought we would warm up then get going but he was ready to go out the door and I felt good so I went with it. Turned out to be a really good run and we really pushed the hard segments. Intervals on the bike at night followed up by a good weight session. Tuesday's are tough. Wednesday morning we met Mark and Tammy for a run in the snow. It snowed a couple inches over night. It was really pretty. Did a longer bike ride at night and a quick 3 mile run after the bike ride. I pushed the pace on the run to see how fast I could go before getting out of zone 3. I got going pretty good. It was really cool. Thursday was a swim with Mark and Chris and I did a nice easy recovery ride at night. Definitely needed a recovery ride. Asher got his hair cut on Thursday (4 months since his last one, he was a bushy beast :) so Friday morning I did my recovery run on the treadmill. Just nice and easy. It was 0 out so I figured Asher would be too cold out there. Saturday Mark and I did our long run. We wanted to get one more 20 miler in before LA. This one went pretty good. He got a hand held bottle so we practiced drinking and our nutrition. We felt better about it than the week before. Good week of training. 20 1/2 hours.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Travels
Well it has been a whirlwind 3 weeks but we made it through. Jeff did an awesome job watching Asher, I made it back and forth to NY, twice, and Asher is only mildly pissed at me and is working on getting over it. So I consider it a success. So after 8 separate plans, 4 time zone changes, 2 snow storms and 2 delayed flights life can get back to normal, at least for a couple weeks until we go to LA. Here are a few pictures from my 2 trips.
My Suite. Very cool.
More of my Suite.
Ralph Wilson Stadium (where the Bills play) in a snow storm.
Another attempt at a picture of Ralph Wilson Stadium in a snow storm.
A picture outside the hotel of the downtown skyline.
A very cool Brew Pub that I ate at one night.
A cool looking Presbyterian church downtown Buffalo. (Still trying to figure out exactly what a Presbyterian church is. There are a lot of them out there. Help is appreciated.)
HSBC Arena. Home of the Buffalo Sabres and on my most recent trip, home of the world's largest ice maze. I didn't get to see that though, it was too warm and was melting all over.
HSBC Arena
Navy Ship at the Port downtown.
Navy Ship
Downtown Buffalo
Hotel room on trip two. Must have been the honeymoon suite or something. Hot tub next to the bed. Odd.
Ralph Wilson Stadium (not in a snow storm) from trip 2.
Bills Stadium
Bills Stadium
This one is classic. 4 guys standing in front of the flight scheduler in Detroit....and they all look lost. And they were standing there for a long time. I had to laugh as I walked past.
Asher - pre-hair cut
Asher - post-hair cut (he is the same dog, promise)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Training
I read this awesome post today. Check it out. And it totally hit home with me. I started heart rate training in the fall and am now finally starting to possibly see some effects of it and it's totally awesome. I used to be the person she describes in here, ran every run hard. I wore a heart rate monitor but didn't really understand what all those stats meant. Then I talked to Brian and asked him how he could make me a better runner. He introduced Lactic Thresold testing and training to me and my mind went in circles. I had a book about running in zones, running at 75% of your lactic threshold (LT) and building your aerobic base but to me that meant running slower and that I would get slower as a result of that. That just shows how much I had to learn. I am a firm believer in this method plus it gives you good variety in your schedule. Whether you are a back of the packer like me who does it because I enjoy it, or a front runner going for first place, this training can pertain to you and help you, even just from a fitness perspective to achieve your goals. I've heard so many people say I can't get faster, or I'm slow, or I'm always last and my response to them is you are out there doing something most people are afraid to even try and if you love it at the end of the day that's all that matters. Give this type of training some thought.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Training Feb 14-20, 2010
Sunday:
am) Bike: 61 miles 3:05:23 Long Ride
Monday:
am) Run: 6 miles 55:45 Aerobic run
Bike: 6 miles 20:14 After run
Tuesday:
am) Run: 7 miles 1:00:30 Intervals
Bike: 7 miles 25:16 After run
Wednesday:
am) Run: 6 miles 55:21 Tempo
Bike: 10 miles 35:15 After run
pm) Swim: 4000 yards 1 hour
Thursday:
am) Elliptical: 1:16:30 8 miles (I wrote down 8 miles of running for this effort. Really good workout.)
Weights: 45 minutes
pm) Bike: 30 miles 1:31:23 Recovery ride
Friday:
am) Run: 6 miles 51:24 Recovery run
Saturday:
am) Run: 22.3 miles 3:19:19 Long Run
Totals:
Swim: 4000 yards 1 hour
Bike: 114 miles 5:57:31
Run: 55.3 miles 8:18:49
Weights: 45 minutes
Total of 16 hours for the week. I was traveling for most of the week in Buffalo, NY and was super busy while I was there so not a lot of two-a-days happening. I flew out on Sunday and back on Thursday. Sunday I got up early and did my long ride. Monday ran and biked a little on the hotel fitness center bike. Tuesday I got my speed session in on the treadmill and biked a little afterwards. Wednesday ran again on the treadmill, did more of a tempo run and rode on the bike after. At night, in a snowstorm, I went to the Y closest to work to swim. Nice place. They have lap swimming all the time which is awesome! One strange thing, they don't have towels. Not in the fitness center and not that you can rent to shower with or use at the pool. That was odd. They did have a large fitness center though and it looked very nice. Thursday I did the elliptical at the hotel fitness center. This was a much better workout. Tough stuff. I really got my heart rate up. I enjoyed this. Something different and good. Not sure it really rested my foot but it was something different at least. Then I flew home and biked once I got home. I missed riding my own bike. And of course everything at home, especially Asher and my friends. It was good to be home. Friday I worked from home and Asher and I did a easy recovery run. He was so happy to go. We ran a little faster than recovery pace but it felt good. I was really dehydrated from the long day before so I drank tea like it was going out of style to get ready for my long run on Saturday. Saturday's long run was good as well. 22 miles. 1 month and 1 day out from LA. Mark and I ran the whole 22 together. We also ran parts with Steve, Mike, Chris and Erik. We also picked Asher up and he ran 14 with us. I had the same problem that I have been having about getting light headed miles 10-14 so I really need to work on that. But the Gatorade and honey stingers worked awesome. After I got through the light headed part I felt strong to the end. I was tired but not toast like the last 20 miler we did. Hopefully I can remember this for race day.....even though I'm just treating that like a training run anyway (gotta sight-see, what better way to sight-see than to run a marathon through a major US city....gotta love it!). So the week turned out pretty good even though I was gone for a big part of it and was super busy.
am) Bike: 61 miles 3:05:23 Long Ride
Monday:
am) Run: 6 miles 55:45 Aerobic run
Bike: 6 miles 20:14 After run
Tuesday:
am) Run: 7 miles 1:00:30 Intervals
Bike: 7 miles 25:16 After run
Wednesday:
am) Run: 6 miles 55:21 Tempo
Bike: 10 miles 35:15 After run
pm) Swim: 4000 yards 1 hour
Thursday:
am) Elliptical: 1:16:30 8 miles (I wrote down 8 miles of running for this effort. Really good workout.)
Weights: 45 minutes
pm) Bike: 30 miles 1:31:23 Recovery ride
Friday:
am) Run: 6 miles 51:24 Recovery run
Saturday:
am) Run: 22.3 miles 3:19:19 Long Run
Totals:
Swim: 4000 yards 1 hour
Bike: 114 miles 5:57:31
Run: 55.3 miles 8:18:49
Weights: 45 minutes
Total of 16 hours for the week. I was traveling for most of the week in Buffalo, NY and was super busy while I was there so not a lot of two-a-days happening. I flew out on Sunday and back on Thursday. Sunday I got up early and did my long ride. Monday ran and biked a little on the hotel fitness center bike. Tuesday I got my speed session in on the treadmill and biked a little afterwards. Wednesday ran again on the treadmill, did more of a tempo run and rode on the bike after. At night, in a snowstorm, I went to the Y closest to work to swim. Nice place. They have lap swimming all the time which is awesome! One strange thing, they don't have towels. Not in the fitness center and not that you can rent to shower with or use at the pool. That was odd. They did have a large fitness center though and it looked very nice. Thursday I did the elliptical at the hotel fitness center. This was a much better workout. Tough stuff. I really got my heart rate up. I enjoyed this. Something different and good. Not sure it really rested my foot but it was something different at least. Then I flew home and biked once I got home. I missed riding my own bike. And of course everything at home, especially Asher and my friends. It was good to be home. Friday I worked from home and Asher and I did a easy recovery run. He was so happy to go. We ran a little faster than recovery pace but it felt good. I was really dehydrated from the long day before so I drank tea like it was going out of style to get ready for my long run on Saturday. Saturday's long run was good as well. 22 miles. 1 month and 1 day out from LA. Mark and I ran the whole 22 together. We also ran parts with Steve, Mike, Chris and Erik. We also picked Asher up and he ran 14 with us. I had the same problem that I have been having about getting light headed miles 10-14 so I really need to work on that. But the Gatorade and honey stingers worked awesome. After I got through the light headed part I felt strong to the end. I was tired but not toast like the last 20 miler we did. Hopefully I can remember this for race day.....even though I'm just treating that like a training run anyway (gotta sight-see, what better way to sight-see than to run a marathon through a major US city....gotta love it!). So the week turned out pretty good even though I was gone for a big part of it and was super busy.
Training February 7-13, 2010
Sunday:
am) Bike: 80 miles 4:02:13 Long Ride
Run: 5 miles 46:00 (run after the bike ride) Brick
Monday:
am) Swim: 3300 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 33 miles 1:41:12 Tempo
Tuesday:
am) Run: 6.5 miles 53:03 Intervals
pm) Bike: 27 miles 1:22:19 Intervals
Weights: 45 minutes
Wednesday:
am) Bike: 32 miles 1:35:22
pm) Elliptical: 1 hour (wrote down about 6 miles running as the equivalent to this)
Thursday:
am) Swim: 3100 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 30 miles 1:32:17 Recovery
Friday:
am) Run: 5.5 miles 48:11 Recovery
Saturday:
am) Run: 18 miles 2:38:48 Long Run
Totals:
Swim: 6400 yards 2 hours
Bike: 202 miles 10:13:23
Run: 41 miles 6:06:02
Weights: 45 minutes
Good solid week again. About 19 hours for the week. Felt really solid on the bike and pretty good on the run. Ran 4 days and did the elliptical 1 day. I'm not sure I'm totally sold on the elliptical but it was good to rest my foot a little and do something different.
Sunday did a nice long ride with a brick after. I wanted to a shorter run to rest my foot a little and the bike felt good so I cranked out a 4 hour ride. Monday was a good swim and Monday night I did a nice tempo ride every 30 minutes bumping up the gear. Felt good. Tuesday I ran inside on the treadmill and did my speed work. My schedule had a complicated speed session on it so I thought it would be easier to do inside. I definitely pushed hard. Kind of cool that I can run 7's with my heart rate getting lower each time. Doesn't mean it's easy though. :) Tuesday night I did my interval bike ride and then a good weight session after the bike ride. I actually like doing both my interval run and interval bike on the same day as well as my full body weight session. My legs still feel good for the bike so I think it's okay. I do both to the point of being tired but my legs rebound well. I definitely dread Tuesday's though because they are tough front to back. Wednesday morning I rode my bike so that I could elliptical at night. Morning bike rides are tough for me. I don't eat before I ride and my calories get really low by the end, my fluids usually get low too so I have been bringing a water bottle down but the calories are still a problem. Night is much better for me on this. I did the elliptical at night at work. I didn't really care for the elliptical at work. I'll give it a try again next week when I'm in New York on a different machine. My legs felt like Jello-O after but I couldn't get my heart rate up. Odd. Thursday was a good swim in the morning and I did a nice recovery ride at night. I like this ride on Thursday's. I'm usually tired by then, either mentally or physically so a nice easy ride and then a easy run on Friday fits really good in the schedule. Friday Asher and I did our normal recovery run. The temp was -3 with wind chills of -13 but it was okay. Didn't feel that bad. (I'm scared to think I might be getting used to this crap! AH!!) My heart rate was higher than it was supposed to be but it still felt easy so it was okay. Saturday we did our long run, 18 miles. Asher did the whole run with us. He did great. Mark and I ran 18, we did a 4 mile loop and then picked Erik up and did the remaining 14 with him. That works out well. The long runs are going okay, I carry my water bottle with Gatorade in it and suck on honey stingers for most of the run. I have been getting light headed about miles 10-14 so I might not be taking enough calories in early and trying to make up for it later. I need to be more consistent with my calories throughout the whole run and see if that helps. We had a really good pace today and my heart rate stayed down really nicely. I feel like I'm able to pick up my pace a little more now while keeping the same heart rate. I like that. I really hope all this beeping of the heart rate monitor is helping.
am) Bike: 80 miles 4:02:13 Long Ride
Run: 5 miles 46:00 (run after the bike ride) Brick
Monday:
am) Swim: 3300 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 33 miles 1:41:12 Tempo
Tuesday:
am) Run: 6.5 miles 53:03 Intervals
pm) Bike: 27 miles 1:22:19 Intervals
Weights: 45 minutes
Wednesday:
am) Bike: 32 miles 1:35:22
pm) Elliptical: 1 hour (wrote down about 6 miles running as the equivalent to this)
Thursday:
am) Swim: 3100 yards 1 hour
pm) Bike: 30 miles 1:32:17 Recovery
Friday:
am) Run: 5.5 miles 48:11 Recovery
Saturday:
am) Run: 18 miles 2:38:48 Long Run
Totals:
Swim: 6400 yards 2 hours
Bike: 202 miles 10:13:23
Run: 41 miles 6:06:02
Weights: 45 minutes
Good solid week again. About 19 hours for the week. Felt really solid on the bike and pretty good on the run. Ran 4 days and did the elliptical 1 day. I'm not sure I'm totally sold on the elliptical but it was good to rest my foot a little and do something different.
Sunday did a nice long ride with a brick after. I wanted to a shorter run to rest my foot a little and the bike felt good so I cranked out a 4 hour ride. Monday was a good swim and Monday night I did a nice tempo ride every 30 minutes bumping up the gear. Felt good. Tuesday I ran inside on the treadmill and did my speed work. My schedule had a complicated speed session on it so I thought it would be easier to do inside. I definitely pushed hard. Kind of cool that I can run 7's with my heart rate getting lower each time. Doesn't mean it's easy though. :) Tuesday night I did my interval bike ride and then a good weight session after the bike ride. I actually like doing both my interval run and interval bike on the same day as well as my full body weight session. My legs still feel good for the bike so I think it's okay. I do both to the point of being tired but my legs rebound well. I definitely dread Tuesday's though because they are tough front to back. Wednesday morning I rode my bike so that I could elliptical at night. Morning bike rides are tough for me. I don't eat before I ride and my calories get really low by the end, my fluids usually get low too so I have been bringing a water bottle down but the calories are still a problem. Night is much better for me on this. I did the elliptical at night at work. I didn't really care for the elliptical at work. I'll give it a try again next week when I'm in New York on a different machine. My legs felt like Jello-O after but I couldn't get my heart rate up. Odd. Thursday was a good swim in the morning and I did a nice recovery ride at night. I like this ride on Thursday's. I'm usually tired by then, either mentally or physically so a nice easy ride and then a easy run on Friday fits really good in the schedule. Friday Asher and I did our normal recovery run. The temp was -3 with wind chills of -13 but it was okay. Didn't feel that bad. (I'm scared to think I might be getting used to this crap! AH!!) My heart rate was higher than it was supposed to be but it still felt easy so it was okay. Saturday we did our long run, 18 miles. Asher did the whole run with us. He did great. Mark and I ran 18, we did a 4 mile loop and then picked Erik up and did the remaining 14 with him. That works out well. The long runs are going okay, I carry my water bottle with Gatorade in it and suck on honey stingers for most of the run. I have been getting light headed about miles 10-14 so I might not be taking enough calories in early and trying to make up for it later. I need to be more consistent with my calories throughout the whole run and see if that helps. We had a really good pace today and my heart rate stayed down really nicely. I feel like I'm able to pick up my pace a little more now while keeping the same heart rate. I like that. I really hope all this beeping of the heart rate monitor is helping.
Quick Update
Sorry, I haven't posted much lately. Life has been crazy, to say the least. I was traveling last week to NY and now I'm trying to get caught up from being gone, training all week here in Green Bay and getting ready to go to NY again next week. Plus two of my friends are out of town so Asher and I are house sitting. I got a new position that happens to be based out of Buffalo, NY and have been training on this new position with my new co-workers. I got to tour Buffalo a little last week, go to a fancy dancy sales meeting/dinner and got to get to know my new co-workers better. I took just a couple pictures and will post them in the next few days.....hopefully.
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my heel. It was a good thing, I made the appointment a month ago but with my crazy schedule and the doctor being super booked this was the first I could get in, and my heel is killing me!! I changed my shoes last week to only run in my Saucony ProGrid Guide 2's and not at all in my Brooks Adrenaline. I also stopped wearing my orthotics to try and pin point where this heel problem is coming from and why it's not getting better. My foot was pretty good last week and I ran three days in a row while in NY. I haven't run three days in a row with minimal pain in a long time. It's usually extremely painful while walking into work after running that morning but the pain subsides during the day and was pretty good by the end of the day. So it does seem to be improving but not a ton. So yesterday I finally got to go see Dr. Ebben. This guy is awesome. He is a sports medicine doctor for Bellin. I saw him back in Nov 08 when my feet were bothering me and I needed orthotics. We talked for a long time, about my running, my feet, my shoes and my orthotics. My orthotics are terrible, it took us a year to get them to a point where I could actually run on them and I'm not convinced they aren't the cause of my heel problem. He was not happy that it took so long to get my orthotics right and also thinks they could be the source of my heel pain. The guy that made my orthotics is frustrated and has told me my feet just aren't made to run, so I should give up the idea of ever running pain free. Well Dr. Ebben totally disagreed with that. I was pain free before, I can be pain free again. I was very happy to hear that. So we got an X-Ray of my heel, just to make sure there wasn't a stress fracture or a bone spur (which there wasn't) and came up with a plan to get this better. I am going to go to a new PT and get reset for orthotics. We are going to start from scratch. (I was so excited to hear this, I don't like my current ones, and they aren't comfortable at all.) He also gave me an anti-inflammatory for my heel and said I just have a deep tissue bruise and this should help heal it. We also talked about next steps if the new orthotics don't help my feet, which included a trip to see a foot specialist in Milwaukee. He doesn't think it will come to that but he wanted to prove to me that we will get this better and that I don't have to give up something I love. I was very relieved to hear that. It was a good trip.
And this morning I ran my speed day virtually pain free. It was the best feeling in the world. Something I've been waiting for since 2008 when my feet started bothering me. Now for a long term solution where I don't need drugs to help me run pain free and life will be great.
P.S. I will also try and post my last two weekly recaps today. I know they are really late.
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my heel. It was a good thing, I made the appointment a month ago but with my crazy schedule and the doctor being super booked this was the first I could get in, and my heel is killing me!! I changed my shoes last week to only run in my Saucony ProGrid Guide 2's and not at all in my Brooks Adrenaline. I also stopped wearing my orthotics to try and pin point where this heel problem is coming from and why it's not getting better. My foot was pretty good last week and I ran three days in a row while in NY. I haven't run three days in a row with minimal pain in a long time. It's usually extremely painful while walking into work after running that morning but the pain subsides during the day and was pretty good by the end of the day. So it does seem to be improving but not a ton. So yesterday I finally got to go see Dr. Ebben. This guy is awesome. He is a sports medicine doctor for Bellin. I saw him back in Nov 08 when my feet were bothering me and I needed orthotics. We talked for a long time, about my running, my feet, my shoes and my orthotics. My orthotics are terrible, it took us a year to get them to a point where I could actually run on them and I'm not convinced they aren't the cause of my heel problem. He was not happy that it took so long to get my orthotics right and also thinks they could be the source of my heel pain. The guy that made my orthotics is frustrated and has told me my feet just aren't made to run, so I should give up the idea of ever running pain free. Well Dr. Ebben totally disagreed with that. I was pain free before, I can be pain free again. I was very happy to hear that. So we got an X-Ray of my heel, just to make sure there wasn't a stress fracture or a bone spur (which there wasn't) and came up with a plan to get this better. I am going to go to a new PT and get reset for orthotics. We are going to start from scratch. (I was so excited to hear this, I don't like my current ones, and they aren't comfortable at all.) He also gave me an anti-inflammatory for my heel and said I just have a deep tissue bruise and this should help heal it. We also talked about next steps if the new orthotics don't help my feet, which included a trip to see a foot specialist in Milwaukee. He doesn't think it will come to that but he wanted to prove to me that we will get this better and that I don't have to give up something I love. I was very relieved to hear that. It was a good trip.
And this morning I ran my speed day virtually pain free. It was the best feeling in the world. Something I've been waiting for since 2008 when my feet started bothering me. Now for a long term solution where I don't need drugs to help me run pain free and life will be great.
P.S. I will also try and post my last two weekly recaps today. I know they are really late.
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