Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-15:
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Saturday Mar 15 | ||
| Note | |
| Trying to ice the knee regularly (3-4 times a day) plus gentle stretching plus very gentle strength exercises for the hamstring. Using dixie cups, filled up about 2/3, tear off enough of the cup to expose the ice but leave enough of the cup for something to hold onto, 10 minutes of ice massage, put what's left back in the freezer, a cup lasts for 3 or 4 times.
The easier some is to do, the more likely you do it. | ||
Friday Mar 14 | ||
| nautilus 45:00 [1] | |
| Full workout, 25K pounds, just doing all the lifts quicker -- the machines are set to beep annoyingly if you take less than 2 seconds on the way up or less than 4 seconds on the way down. It always seemed slow, but I haven't really tried to find out what the pros and cons were.
But I discovered that if you get three straight "fast times," then that shuts off that annoying beep for the rest of your time on that machine. And that was such a nice thought. So I started doing the first two ups and the first down too fast on purpose to turn off the beeper, and then do the rest a little faster than 2/4, maybe 1-2 up and 2-3 down. Seemed much more pleasant, maybe just in the fact that I got up to 16 (my usual number of reps) a little quicker. But, not sure if this is better or worse than going slower. | ||
Thursday Mar 13 | ||
| road running 19:44 [2] 2.22 mi (8:52 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| A little loop in town. Knee still sore, not terrible. At least I'm icing it regularly now, see if that does any good, plus I put the heel cushions back in. Calf muscle I strained last week was ok.
Last client today was a geography professor, he said he'd heard I used to be on the Wheaties box. I asked if he'd ever seen any O' maps. Nope. So I pulled up a few on the web and we spent a pleasant 30 minutes chatting. He may teach map stuff, but I think he's in trouble without his GPS. | ||
Wednesday Mar 12 | ||
| nautilus 40:00 [1] | |
| The usual Nautilus stuff, pretty vigorously. Plus another PT visit. Amazed at how weak my left hamstring is. Problem is, strengthening it is difficult since it hurts down by the knee if I try work on it. Got to fix that problem first.
All of a sudden, way too busy at work, thought I had pretty much caught up last weekend and now I'm swamped again. Very few weird clients, lots of just nice decent people. Plus several dead people, well, returns for dead people, brought in by the offspring. Best as I can tell, even a dead person can get the tax rebate coming in June. Don't we have a great system! And the thing is, mid-March is supposed to be a little slower, time to catch up, also time to get out for plenty of exercise. Such as my golf class, which started up yesterday. 30 minutes exercise, 30 minutes work with the local pro on the swing. At some point the pro, trying to give us a dose of reality, said that golf is a game of misses, you never hit the ball perfect, the challenge is to hit good misses. So I had to point out that last year, a particularly fine year, I had hit a very large number of what I (as well as any observers) felt were absolutely perfect shots. Which I said with a big smile. He seemed rather surprised. Am I the only one? It was, as I said, a very fine year on the links, and only 35 more days to the start of the season this year. Back to work.... | ||
Monday Mar 10 | ||
| Note | |
| Some of the shows that get watched on our TV seem to always have a short preface stating that the following program contains themes of an adult nature, or something like that, and viewer discretion is advised. A similar notice might be appropriate here....
So I went back to the urologist today to find out the results of the biopsy, and the results were, well, it wasn't clear. They had snipped me in a dozen places and 11 of the samples were clean, but one of them looked like maybe it was something to worry about, and maybe it wasn't. So the local pathologist has sent the slides (or maybe a computer scan of the slides) off to a guy at Johns Hopkins, which they do once in a while when they want an expert opinion. And I get to wait another two and a half weeks to find out what he thinks. The self-descriptive phrase that popped into my mind as I was driving home was "emotional wreck." But maybe it was one of those times that a longer drive is better, gives you time to try and sort things out. And under the assumption that there is probably something wrong that caused my PSA number to head up, then it's clearly better to find out about it sooner. And if I had gotten a clean bill of health, there would still be the nagging thought that there is something wrong. And I like the idea of a second opinion. One friend and fellow AP reader has urged me to do just that, and had sent me a list of the half dozen or so recognized experts at this. When I got home, I checked his list, and there was this guy from JH. Excellent! But there is still the great unknown about which way and how fast this journey goes. It's funny how it bothers me. I'm not losing any sleep. Most of the time when I think about it I put it out of mind pretty quickly, perhaps due to being so busy now. It just going to the doctor's office that makes it all very immediate and unavoidable, and I fall apart. I suppose practice will bring improvment. Meanwhile, the doctor, totally optimistic, says we will fix it, we're onto it very early, don't worry. Easy for him to say.... ------------------------- Back home, fill Gail in on events, then off to work, where my three ladies want to know how I made out -- the best thing I did there was tell them from day 1 what was going on. So I fill them in, and take care of some stuff for a couple hours, and then head over to the gym for medical appointment #2, this at the PT business that is affliated with the gym, to see the boss, Jeff, to look at my knee. And he pulls and pushes and twists and everything seems ok except for where the inside (medial) part of the hamstring attaches on the inside of the knee. And since he is interested in cause, not just the symptoms, he has me walk up and down the corridor, and then do it some more while he gets 3 or 4 other PT folks to come watch, my biomechanics being so bad, and then he gets me on the treadmill to watch some more. So he's thinking about how I might to try and change my stride. And in the meantime, some ultrasound and some exercises to do. Nice to know there was nothing else wrong. And maybe a little more aggressive treatment will do some good. Though fixing my stride may just be a pipe dream. Nevertheless, a sense of progress, or more accurately, the possibility of progress. Several more appointments made over the next three weeks. | ||
| C • Today's treadmill seesion f... 2 | ||
Sunday Mar 9 | ||
| nautilus 55:00 [1] | |
| Another trip to the gym. | ||
| C • Can you email me your maili... 1 | ||