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Week 6
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Happy July 4th to y'all Americans. Hope you're having a great weekend. We'll be having some relatives arriving today from out of state for a few days. We'll grill, we'll share, we'll do some 4th of July activities, etc..
Sacto, this appeared in our paper this morning, and thought that you might find it affirming.
http://www.kentucky.com/2011/07/03/1798073/cancer-survivor-running-bluegrass.html
As to the impermanence's question regarding the untimely death of Rick Sayre and how it might of affected us, I had thoughts about it, but I didn't want to put down something that was not well formulated...I'll try to get to that at some point; it deserves to be discussed respectfully.
Not much this week. After I decided I'm putting off racing for a while, I really had to just take a break and step back for a minute. You train and train and think you are making progress, and when something derails you, your thought is to get through it as quickly as you can, and get back to what you were doing. You guys helped me to reflect more, and while I could be running right now, I really have to ask what caused my knee to start hurting in the first place, and address that first before I get back on the roads. It comes back to the hips as I said last week. So I've decided to stop running until the knee pain is completely gone (it's coming from the classic IT band syndrome, as it turns out), and work solely on the core strengthening and flexibility exercises to get the mid-section in line with my legs. I never had issues like this when I was younger, but I spent the year with equal amounts of running and speed-skating training, so I was definitely getting the core work from the speed-skating stuff. So that's my week, just a lot of core work and stretching.
Topic: Non-running related physical activities? What else do you do regularly that is active, but isn't part of your standard training regimen. I guess I'm thinking about how we live in a fairly sedentary time in history, where one isn't required to be physically active to make money or provide for ourselves. Lexington, my home town, was just listed as the "laziest" city in the country....not a badge of honor, to be sure. They must not have interviewed the people I know, for I don't sense we're all THAT bad...but the city does have a "use your car" mentality. For me, about the only real things I do regularly is walking and yard work. My job doesn't require that I be particularly active, although I can be on my feet a lot as an educator.
OK. Hope everyone is having a great week!
PS-Good luck at World Master's msr, spikez, others?