Epic Fail

Sometimes, mistakes are valuable.  They can often serve as immediate portals to that ultimate ‘ah ha’  moment when the inevitable challenge or difficulty you happen to be experiencing makes it glaringly obvious that you’ve fucked up and, hopefully, what you need to improve to prevent it from ever happening again.  I just happened to experience [...]

Runner’s Toe

There are lots of unflattering and painful things that can happen to runners over the course of their training: leaky bladder, diarrhea, bloody nipples, ass rash (or worse), pulled muscles, plantar fasciitis, ITB issues; you name it I’ve dealt with it.  But, for whatever reason, up until today I’ve never had to deal with the [...]

Let the Good Times Flow

You may remember way back when, I once complained of suffering from a bad case of “Swimmers Sinusitis” after spending so much time swimming in chlorinated water at my local YMCA pool.  But, largely thanks to a few regular visitors to this blogsite, I stumbled onto the medicinal phenomenon known as the “Neti Pot”.  Sanskrit [...]

Swimmer’s Sinusitis

Lately, I’ve had this on-going battle after with my sinuses and I’ve just been chalking it up to the changing of the seasons, or the gravitational pull of the moon, or planetary alignment, or whatever it is that makes your nose drip like a diuretic gerbil.  But now I’ve discovered that I may, in fact, [...]

To Pee or Not to Pee…

There is a common dialogue that is regularly waged amongst most triathletes I know that I would like to weigh in on; specifically, is it actually beneficial to peeing in your wetsuit? I know, right?  How gross is that?  But, yup, there it is – a lot of them do it.  In fact, they don’t [...]

The Science of Fat

My quads are still screaming today after the weekend’s Bay race.  Well, maybe they aren’t as bad as they were, say, yesterday or Monday, but sore nonetheless.  I’ve since had a home massage (which felt awesome), managed a short easy spin yesterday, and even participated in a yoga class; which, it must be said, was [...]

Hip to Adductors

Another area of tenderness lately is my hip adductors.  During my long runs, I am noticing that my right hip becomes tight, resulting in both a dull ache in my left knee and ITB area as well as an increased soreness in my Quadriceps (to be discussed later).  It may be then that my left [...]

“Aye, there’s the rub!”

Yesterday was quite a momentous occasion for me.  Up until this point, I have avoided going for massages.  I originally thought that massages were for either rich people or swingers and there was bound to be oodles of incense, mood lighting, long, flowing see-through robes and perhaps a lava lamp or two.  Going for a [...]

A Cramp In My Style

Long Swim – Endurance 4 (click to see stats) 1900 m (50:11) Avg. Heart Rate = 136 bpm Max. Heart Rate = 157 bpm Calories = 589 So ¾ through my swim workout this evening I fell victim to the mother of all cramps; a total seizure of the muscle from my ankle to the [...]