Well, my neck just isn’t letting up. I’ve tried to book into a chiropractor twice this week, I sent an email and left a phone message with one recommended practitioner on the Gold Coast and they just didn’t get back to me. Very frustrating. It seems to be getting slowly better though, it is more a problem now at the back of my deltoid and the top of my lat, on the right hand side. It’s been a good month though so it better start clearing up soon… says I as I type this with an ice pack on my shoulder. I have been doing my exercises (from the 2008 physio instruction) and also trying to grind out the muscular knots by lying on a tennis ball and rolling it onto the spot, then applying my natural body weight to it.
I think I may have had a break through with my knee problems though. Moana bought me a pair of hi tech running socks a few weeks back. They were very expensive, apparently specialised for distance runners. They never were very comfortable, contrarily I find the $6 a pair, A1 All Sports cheapos perfect for running in. I have not had sore knees for a couple of weeks now and today, I did one of my 3km cruise, 3 km fartlec sessions while wearing these socks. I noticed too that this pair of socks have that slippery quality to them, so you feel like your foot moves within your shoe. Anyway, lo and behold, sore knees over a small 6km course. Now, it is cold tonight so that may have played a part, but I wonder if the sock also are a contributor. I can’t remember 100%, but I think I was wearing the same pair of sock when I did my “BIG” run last time, when I had the big knee problems.
So I will check it out. I will do a couple of routines of the variations of my runs with normal socks, then try again with the special ones. I’ll see if they are the cause and if so, well I guess they can keep my feet warm as I sleep.
So, two last things to settle, firstly my fartlec session. The split today was 16mins up, 15:10 back. So I was 50 seconds faster when running the fartlec session. This is comforting as it leaves me thinking the recovery bit is not a complete loss. Previously I was doing 1 minute on, 2 minutes recovery. This session I did 90 seconds on, 90 seconds recovery. So it was a bit tougher. My stats were:
- Time: 31:10
- KCal: 511
- Max Heart: 190
- Avg Heart: 169
The higher heart rates could have been impacted by the fact that today I did an evening session at 8:15pm, when I finished dinner at about 6:15pm. I am not sure if ongoing digestion may have played a role.
The final thing I need to deal with is my Chiropractor. I am going to get them to come to me. So I set up Currumbin Chiropractors. I’ll optimise it over the coming weeks and sell it to one of the ones without a website. From there, I’ll use them as a practitioner. All sorted.
