Day 319: The Gully Got Me

First off, my foot is feeling pretty much “healed.”  After a couple days, I remembered that my previous “tendon pain” from running was happening on the inside edge of my foot and not the outside edge where the pain from bicycling was happening.  After talking to our trainer again and letting him know that it [...]

Day 313: Hello, Sports Medicine

There are certain advantages to working at a university, and one of them is that you have free access to athletic trainers.  So, after all of the foot pain I experienced yesterday, I decided to have a professional look at it.  The verdict from our head trainer is that I either have insertional tendinitis on [...]

Day 304: Let’s Play Tag

Topher tagged me recently on his blog, but before we get to that, let’s deal with the fact that it’s been 58 days since my last run.  The main reason I haven’t felt like running recently is because work has been stressful lately.  I work in the IT department of a small university, and contrary [...]

Day 136: Type-B Has Us Down

I haven’t been on a run since Monday. On Tuesday, our 2-year old son started running a fever. On Wednesday, we found out he has Influenza Type-B. Type-B?! You mean there’s different types?? Apparently so. Type-B is not as bad or as common as Type-A, but the flu shots [...]