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Location:

Orem,UT,USA

Member Since:

Apr 03, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

HS/COLLEGE:
mile: 4:56, 2 mile: 10:21 (1978)
marathon: 2:52 (St. George 1982)
OLD MAN (20+ years later):
5K: 19:53 (Nestle/Art City Days 5K 2007)
10K: 39:55 (Spectrum 10K 2008)
half marathon: 1:26 (Hobble Creek 2008)
marathon: 3:07 (St. George 2007)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back to a BQ marathon time (currently 3:40).

Long-Term Running Goals:

Have fun running, keep fit, and fight middle age spread. Run consistently and injury free. Maintain a healthy balance between running and other life priorities. Encourage my ever-aging running buddies to keep running so we can continue to share runs on the trail instead of rocking chairs.

Personal:

Blessed to be married to Karen for 30 years. We have six children (4 daughters/2 sons) ages 16 to 30, and one wonderful granddaughter.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Altra Instinct 1.5 Lifetime Miles:						83.50
Altra Lone Peak 1.5 Lifetime Miles:						21.80
Saucony Guide 7 Blue 2 Lifetime Miles:						376.95
Saucony Fastwitch 6 Lifetime Miles:						200.05
Saucony Guide 7 Black 1 Lifetime Miles:						271.15

Wed, Apr 30, 2008

Easy Miles	Threshold Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Track speed mileage	Hill mileage	Total
1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.00

My leg felt okay this morning so I went out at 5:45am to see if maybe Larry was running. He wasn't. That was good. I was able to go as slow and as short as my leg wanted to. It didn't hurt too bad, but just enough that I decided to turn back after about a half mile. It's feeling good enough that I didn't want to take any risk of a setback yet.

My tentative plan is to take it easy the rest of this week. If it still hurts a little come Monday I've pretty much resolved myself to switch to the "run through it" or "ignore the pain and hope it goes away" approach. Of course I won't be stupid about it, but maybe my body just needs to be reminded of who's the boss.

Comments

From josse on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:29:50

Oh my goodness would you just let me scrape that dang leg?

From Paul T on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:58:25

I truly appreciate the offer, but I don't feel it's right for me for this injury right now. I'm probably wrong (it wouldn't be the first time) but I have to go by what feels right to me. You're very kind to offer.

From Tom on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 18:39:53

Good luck on getting past the leg pain Paul. I think you'll feel pretty good after this week, just keep listening to your body.

From Terry on Thu, May 01, 2008 at 13:57:32

I feel your pain. I hate injuries. By the way how do you scrape a leg? I don't know what scraping is.

From josse on Thu, May 01, 2008 at 15:21:59

I use a Gua sha tool you can look it up at www.guashaorthopedic.com or google gua sha, aystm, or gratson to find out info.

From Paul T on Thu, May 01, 2008 at 15:45:33

Gua Sha is described in wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_Sha

In general idea seems similar to what I do with my Stick, rolling sore muscles to break up scar tissue and promote blood flow and hence quicker healing. I used to suffer from chronic calf pulls, but the rolling put that behind me. I think scraping is similar, but more aggressive.

My current injury is hidden behind my knee where I can't get to it very well. A few days ago while kneeling to pray I realized that while kneeling I could get my finger deep enough into my knee to find the sore spot. (Kneeling to pray has always helped me find answers.)

There is a small area right behind my knee that is the locus of the pain. Since then I've been vigorously massaging it various times throughout the day to try to loosen it up. It's quite tender and doesn't like to be touched.

I don't generally take pain killers, but it feels like inflammation so I've also started taking the NSAID naproxen (generic Aleve). That's what our doctor has prescribed (in higher dosages) for inflammation in the past.

I followed Josse's link and, since the tools come with an instruction booklet, I've decided to get the tools and give Gua Sha a try. Various runners on the blog have had success with it. I'm nervous to have others scrape me (it even sounds scary), but if I can learn to do it to myself (like I did with The Stick) it may help my old body through many more years of running.

From josse on Thu, May 01, 2008 at 15:54:17

Behind the knee is hard to get yourself. Your problem sound very similar to mine when I first got scraping done. I went to a PT and that is where I learned to do it myself. I can show you how to use the tool and teach your wife or someone to get behind your knee.

The biggest differance between the stick and gua sha is the bruising and I think gua sha works about 100 times faster than the stick. Remeber I am allways ready and willing to help anyone, when they are ready:)

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