Friday, April 1, 2011

injuries...

it's always not a good feeling when u felt some pain in some part of ur body, especially during training. as coach said that in racing, u shld try to manage pain. but, in training.....really? what can u do? rest....which at most time u feel like as if when u don't train, u could fall behind. fall behind ur teammates' training, even fall behind urself from last season.
for the past 2-3 months, i hd been battling a tendonitis on the inside part of my right knee. unsurprisingly, this problem got worse as i was trying new shoes from my running. at first, i thought it was a lingering effect from not fully healed, but then, coach started noticing the way i ran, just not rite.
did it get worse? at first, i wasn't so sure. at this point, i don't think so, since the pain is not as bad as it was abt 1 month ago.
i wanted so badly to try other shoes in the market, but yet, my big huge feet jst weren't abt to cooperate. so now, i am back to the 1 and only shoe in the market that can fit my big huge feet. if only the shoe that i'm wearing would jst sponsor me directly; especially, now, i know for sure, that is the only shoe brand (asics) and model that i can wear, pretty much for the rest of life athletic life. oh well....
is it better now?
absolutely. i run better, i walk better. i can feel my bounce again on the run. even tho, as of now, i can still feel a little pain, but it's dfntly manageable.
what do i learned? new isn't always better. injuries is always kind of sucks....

Thursday, March 10, 2011

quotes

Some quotes that I came across for life, training, racing; courtesy of ryan hall and josh cox;

the only just literary critic is JESUS, who admires more than any man the gifts HE HIMSELF has bestowed - jrr. tolkien

PAD - Passion; Ability; Destiny

Gal 6:4-5 – ‘…each of you should test your own actions. Then you can take pride in yourself, without comparing yourself to somebody else, for each of you should carray your own load…’

COl 3:23-24 – ‘…and whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ…’
Seek God’s presence, not God’s presents

Monday, February 21, 2011

and so the story continues....

last sunday, with the girl in town, we decided to go run to see some bison at the nearby metro parks. after the episode that i had last thurs in the run and about 1-2 days of rest, i thought all the pain on my foot should be ok by now.
so, we went running 4 abt an hour. this is after also trying on new movement prep warm-up stretch. not realizing what the surface of the trail would be, i started on a little bit faster than my normal pace, since i actually felt quite warm, and not stiff at all with the warm-up. man...was i wrong?
the surface was quite hard pack of gravel, trail, and dfntly not an even ground at all. i was able to go on the faster pace that i wanted to, but then after-wards, all the same pain in the same areas, especially the 1 area that had been therapy-ied, it all came back to haunt me. so...rite now, i'm a little worried. therefore, i decide to rest today, in prep for the upcoming harder camp work-out.
i guess at this point, i am in the place where i had to learn more about the meaning of recovery week and rest time. as u know, i am not a pro. as much as i would like all this to be my full-time job, it isn't. again, i am back to the drawing board of time management.
and, surprise, surprise, i had 1 new endurance sport friend that jst sent me about time management worksheet....wazzup with that.....? how is that possible...?
guess at least it still early in the season. thank God....

Saturday, February 19, 2011

injury...

kind of sucks...
since the beginning of the year, i had this nagging pain on the inside part of my right knee. first, i thought it was jst a fatigue pain, or maybe even jst overuse, which is kind of weird to begin with, since i had not trained that hard. but then after about a couple of weeks continuing on, i felt a little worried, therefore went to see a specialist. it turned out it was a minor tendinitis.
ok...so good news and bad news...
it's good that i found out early and it was minor. bad, because that meant i had to laid down on my run. then again, it's the time when i felt the most pain.
so, solution; i went in for 3-4 session of physical therapy for it with the doc gave me some anti-inflammatory. did it help? yes, well...kind of...
after all the session fulfilled and finishing up all the prescribed med, i decided to try different type of shoes. not sure whether this was a good, or bad idea.
so...last thursday, with the very nice warmer weather in the area, after feeling everything seems to be on track with the healing process, i decided to try the new kicks. in the beginning of the run, i thought i felt great. the shoes felt light, i felt light footed, not bulky at all. i felt snazzy, and quite able to go on a faster pace. i was able to do the schedule workout well, even thought it was kind of hard workout and kind of hard with the new kicks.
but then, after the workout, i felt a little pain in the same area of the previously healed area with an addition in other areas of my calf and foot.
at first i thought....ok maybe i was just going to fast, maybe i felt over confident, maybe i pushed too hard.
so let's see....let me rest this for a day, or 2....

Friday, January 7, 2011

2011, here we go...

hey, hey, hey.....2011 already.....what'd i missed? not a whole lot yet. then again, got to start planning for races in 2011. what am i going to do? a couple of my frenz, teammates, etc had been asking for a while. 1 of the questions that i found quite interesting is, '...will there b any repeat performance(s) in 2011, jst like 2010?'
my answer to that question, '...nope, not really. it will be a better performance for 2011...'
as 2010 had become the inaugural iron-distance race for me; in 2011, i am looking forward to an improve performance in the iron-distance regime.
race schedule should be up soon. still finalizing. in the mean time, keep it steady on the training and focus on the task in the future. hope 2 c any of u on any race(s) thru-out the usa, thanx, Gb....and God speed....