I went out to do 1 min intervals with 40 sec walks in between. I figured I’d do 8 intervals, which would be roughly a mile, and I ran slow, nothing over 10 min pace. Everything was fine with my injured leg, but at interval 7 my stupid other calf got the exact same pain in the exact same place. Ugh, I’m so tempted to just buy a bag of Chips Ahoy right now.
BCEagle, I have the livestrong app on my iphone and it works fine. The search function is not as good as the online one, but it’s not that bad really. I tried the myfitnesspal app because some of my friends were using it, but I didn’t like it as well as the livestrong app.
<p>Last night as I was falling asleep my 125 pound dog exited from the bed to the floor and stepped on my calf! I was afraid I was injured, but it seems fine except for a bruise. Just what I needed…</p>
<p>Blank, if you’re going to do this, you’ve got to do it right. Scrap the Chips Ahoy. Get something good! I vote for See’s candy or a hot fudge sundae. Fine, a banana split – there’s fruit in there. ;)</p>
<p>Need inspiration to take care of your health? Hang out at your friendly neighborhood medical center a while, oh, in surgery / pre-op. That should do it.</p>
<p>Go to this point in the Dr. Robert Lustig lecture where he breezes through the metabolism of sucrose, alcohol, and fructose in the liver. The pathways of alcohol and fructose are very similar. His contention is that fructose metabolism is the same as alcohol metabolism, except for the brain part. In the liver, they both can lead to fatty liver disease that is indistinguishable unless you are told which one caused it.</p>
<p>That’s what happened to me. I strained a calf muscle in the right leg with the first step accelerating for a sprint interval. Could barely walk home. Hurt for a couple of days. I stayed off of it for a week then went out and came home with a twinge in the achilles tendon in the other leg. I finally just shut it down completely for two or three weeks.</p>
<p>That is, unfortunately, the curse of geezer running. Surveys show that 60% of runners will have an injury that keeps them from running this year. As we get older, it seems that chasing it from one injury to the next is all too common. As Alwyn Cosgrove says, imagine if I told you to do 1500 plyometric hops on one leg, then switch and do 1500 on the other leg. You say, that’s insane. But, that’s the force of running a mile.</p>
I was having the same problems with my calves when I got back into running. I haven’t had any problems (knock on wood) since March. I am very religious with dynamic and static stretching, including lunges daily. I also use the stick or foam roller daily. This routine takes 15 minutes before any running starts. It’s a pain in the rear but so far a I think it’s been worth it.
<p>Sewhappy–so good that your doctor recognized a problem and sent you for the CT scan. Hang-in there! Six weeks will probably go by faster than you think. </p>
<p>Worked out in the gym today–Cybex and Kettlebells. Tried a machine I’d never used before. It was a vertical rope pulling machine. I was surprised at how hard it was. I had it at a medium resistance and did it for 30 seconds 5X. Definitely got my heart rate up. Ended up walking home from the gym (3 miles)–one car 5 people this week.</p>
<p>Ohiopublic, I think you are probably right. I had become kind of lax with my stretching over time. I have been working my injured calf with the foam roller and (don’t laugh) a rolling pin, cause I don’t have the stick, lol, and it seems to be helping. I probably should have worked on both calves, but live and learn I guess. It just seems so strange to have the exact same injury with both calves.</p>
<p>I didn’t give in to the cookie urge, Deborah. Honestly, a sundae just wouldn’t have cut it. When I go on a binge, I need something that lasts for a couple of hours, like a bag of Chips Ahoy (my drug of choice). I made do with sugar free jello and cool whip.</p>
sewhappy- same thing happened to my friend, except the clot was in her calf. Hang in there and take care of yourself. Scary stuff!
Bromfield, cool machine. I have never used one but if it is anything like the rope work I have done, I can imagine it raising HR in a hurry.
6 mile hike with 1800 feet elevation gain. Just gorgeous, not as steep as yesterday in the morning. This afternoon 10 mile mountain bike ride.
Still working on the pictures from the hikes. iPhone camera does not do the views justice, that’s for sure. Will try to post some anyway in a bit.
<p>I do the first two - my eating out has declined considerably over the last year since I decided to sharply cut sugar and carbs. It can be a challenge to cut sugar and carbs if you eat out a lot.</p>
<p>I do sometimes skip meals but usually don’t. Sometimes I go a day without any food and then gradually add food back over the following week.</p>
<p>“Skipping meals once in a while may be understandable, but not as a habit, he said. “Over time, skipping meals habitually could make your metabolism slower, affecting [the hormone] leptin and thyroid hormones,” he said.”</p>
<p>BC, now that it’s official, any special plans as team captain? Does this mean your trunk will be filled with stuff like extra water bottles and blue ice? What’s the scoop for post-race?</p>
<p>I think that it means that I pick up packets and shirts and distribute them and maybe have to provide them with the logo for the shirts - though I’m hoping that they just use the ones from last year.</p>
<p>At the moment, we only have four and I spoke to someone who is going to sign up shortly so that’s five. If that’s all we have, then not likely to do much for post-race. In the past we met at a nearby bar but that’s when we had 30 people. I’m a bit amazed at how fast interest has dropped off.</p>
<p>We have so many good to excellent runners in the building.</p>
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