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IM Brazil: Recovery +5, +6 Days
This year my recovery from Ironman is moving at a rapid pace. At my first Ironman (NZ), it took me 6 weeks to fully recover. Last year at IM Austria, it took me 4 weeks. And this time, I think it will be less than 4 weeks. On Friday, I went for a swim and…
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My That’s a Big Poplitius You Have…
Or is that a poplitius in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? I went to my Graston physical therapist on Friday and I told her about some pain I was having in the back of my knee. She starts touching the area behind there and I yelp in pain as she…
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On Selecting Sports Medicine Help
Selecting medical help is a tough thing. You’d expect that all physical therapists and doctors are the same and that they can all deal with our Ironman training problems. Boy was I wrong. Not All Practictioners Are Created Equal!!! If any statement could summarize everything, that would be it. What I’ve discovered is that pretty…
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Recovery Time Lengthened
This year training for Ironman Brazil has been really interesting from a recovery perspective. My high intensity climbing sessions on Old La Honda along with my jump to long rides with 3 hour interval sessions in the middle have really taxed my system more than I have experienced in the past. Chalk it up to…
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Call Me Mr. Freeze
Aaaah….an ice bath after a hard run today works wonders. But how to get into that bathtub of freezing water? Here is Dave’s patented method of successfully performing an ice bath: 1. Prepare. No, not just mentally, but get 2 bags of 7lbs. of ice from 7-Eleven, a towel, something to drink if you want,…
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Rituals
Many times after we work out, all we want to do is just take a shower, eat, and maybe take a nap. Nowadays, I have to pay attention to what I do afterwards because if I don’t, I’ll pay for it with lesser performance during workouts in the following days. This was brought to the…
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Socks Matter
In my quest for finding new running shoes, I noticed I was getting more blisters than normal. After about 30 min of running, especially on the treadmill, I could feel some serious rubbing on my soles, which would ultimately lead to swelling of my feet and then severe blistering. I tried everything. Lube on my…
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More Graston Success: Forearms
About two months back, I started getting sore in my wrists and forearms when I practiced piano. It was at a time when I was perfecting my stroke and really working hard at strength, having increased my paddle usage and seeing good results. I did not want tendonitis to develop, nor to watch it go…
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Turned in My Timing Chip
Alas, I turned in my NYC Marathon timing chip yesterday. I had hoped that some miracle would have happened and my hacking cough would have gone away. But no such luck. I am very disappointed to be brought down by a sickness. 4 months of training, seeing great track times and growing strength on hill…
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Running Injury Free
A buddy of mine just started a new site called dailystrength.org. It is a place where you can get support and advice for various problems or issues you may have in a multitude of areas of your life. There was a post about running and knee problems, and how people were down on running and…
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Kinesio Tape
This week I was having calf problems. They come and go now, but for a while it was a huge challenge as my calves adapted to the Pose Method of running, or running more on the balls of your feet. Although they say it takes 2-3 months to adapt, it took me a good year…
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Ice Baths: BRRRRRRRR
After a few weekends of long rides, I am finding that it takes 2 days to recover. I am growing older and my body is changing, and needing more time to recover after long, hard efforts. So I am on a quest to figure out how to recover faster. I now foam roll before and…
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Sport Specific Doldrums
This week I backed off cycling training. No matter what I did, I was very low energy and just could not summon enough juice to work out at wattages and intensities in previous weeks. What a frustrating thing. I am now building to my next race in June and feel that backing off now interrupts…
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Too much of a good thing…
Electrostim is great. You crank it up as far as you can stand and it makes your muscles jump around like crazy. It stimulates your muscles into healing, helps blood flow, and is sometimes used to exercise the muscles. Well…sometimes. Yesterday I have two electrostim pads hooked up to each hamstring. I crank it up…
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Grasterbating
Today I heard the most funny term – grasterbating. It’s basically doing what your sports medicine doctor does to you, but in the privacy of your own home. In this case, it is the Graston Technique, which uses these scary looking metal tools to scrape away adhesions that form in your muscles. It feels like…
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