It’s my right foot it has a collapsed arch (Overcompensated for a broken toe when I was 12). have been researching it for a while and everyone keeps telling me to get some orthodics. This is the last straw. I’m going to get some godanm orthodics.
get good ones.
some others might have suggestion… i have tried footlevelors (look it up) they are good…
but hey, even if it is the foot and you go with orthotics, which can be good, there is possible tweak, torque going down that can be undone some by ART.
I’ll have to look into that then. I’ll try and find a decent ART specialist in California. I wonder if I should do that before or after I get my orthodics… Hmm…
what i meant by I’m scared is that I worry Joe is twisted and it is like this tangle that might need untangling and the kid is so not selfmotivated, I dont know if he will stick it out.
most likely he is good for the season with just careful training…
dont know yet since the injury is still fresh.
If you have the means to get ART (my guess is around $50 a treatment- thats less than a massage) why not? It could be necessary. Better yet, if you have health insurance, check with ART person and see how it fits.
Then again, take it easy man, I have heard it over and over, the body will tell you if you need to rest… and then the rebound, fresh, with good efforts.
Orthotics take time and they do help…
… can you get both?
I actually think ART is more direct and like right now improvement to the major muscle/joint areas whereas orthotics will work from the foot up.
Hey a good rest weekend might do wonders anyway.
Taking ice baths after hard speed work tends to reduce swelling and DOMS. But don’t fret, sprinting is hard on the body especially when your are not use to doing it often. Manage your volume carefully and get proper treatment and you should adapt progressively.
You were very helpful with 800m info, so I wanted to return the favor… Hope this helps…
Thanks scarface. I should have considered icing after my workout on tuesday. Heck I haven’t taken an ice bath in… months. Sheshe. I’ guess I should after my faster workouts, now that I’m hitting about mid-season. I need to stay healthy for the next 14 weeks if I want to achieve my goals.
2/26/05
Week-12 Saturday
Workout: Nada hoy. I did a bit of foam roller, and my hammies (particularly my right one, which hurts significantly more than my left one) are feeling better. I talked with my folks about ART, and they said that I should look into it if I’m really serious… my hammies are pretty serious about ART ::mad:: Oh well. no big deal
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Great! With ART treatments, recovery should definitely improve
Have you ever considered getting a postural imbalance check done?
I was talking to a guy today who’s son was a very good 200m / LJer and at age 13 started getting severe pain in his ankles / calves to the point where he couldn’t run :eek: This went on for 2 years and after countless useless diagnosis and thousands of $ he got a check up done. The guy did a full check of him and his shoes and then did some severe manipulation and put wedges in his shoes, this went on for a few weeks and now about 4 months later he is back training, pain free and his posture is much improved.
Mike Robertson & Eric Cressey wrote a series of articles last year at t-mag called Neanderthal No More, might be worth a read.
Don’t let those guys in the Davies thread get to you, you’re a class act 
Brag time, my 11yr old daughter had regional champs this weekend and was 1st in 1500m (5.39.48) & HJ (a piss poor 1.20), 2nd in 800m (an eased up 2.51) and 3rd = in LJ (4.0m)
Danm those are some pretty killer marks for an 11 year old! We’ve got girls on our team who can’t match those 800/1500 doubles. Nice work. You should be proud.
2/27/05
Week-12 Sunday
Supplements: 9:00AM 700mg Glucosamine Condroiten, and MSM, (methylsulfonylmethane)
Workout: 6x1:00 Abs (wieghted/decline), 6x1:00 Core (weighted decline), 7x:30 pushups 9 reps, stretching, shower, roller
Nothing today, just my usual core work. I considered a trail run (my hammies don’t hurt during the shortened motion of my long run), but the hills, rocks, tree-trunks, & shit would be tough on my hammies even if running isn’t.
I can’t afford another week like this. I’ve started using supplements that (Might) have kept me from getting injured last year.
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2/28/05
Week-13 (my lucky week) MOnday
SUpplements: 7:40AM 700mg Glucosamine Condroiten, and MSM, (methylsulfonylmethane)
Workout: 800m jog, stretches, drills, 15 min warmup, 6x1:00 abs, 3400m tempo, 10 min cooldown, stretches, shower, roller
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Man was I ever sore from the ab workout I did today. On Sunday, I was all proud of myself “ooh I did the whole 6 min ab workout w/out skipping crunch or resting at all, I’m such a manly man, look at my rippling ab muscles”… but today, I pretty much cried through the whole thing screaming, “Make it STOP! MAKE IT STOP!!” Ugh. Well it kind of carried over into the tempo workout too. During the last line, my abs were very tight, and I had to go poopy. I didn’t time the tempo, though. That godanm little watch causes too much stress.
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2/29/05
Week-13 Tuesday
Supplements: 9:50 AM (after/during breakfast) 1200mg Calcium w/vitamin D
Workout: 2 1/2 hour walk, stretching, neutral shower (warm then cool), ice calves
Well today we had to do a “blitz” for our track fundraiser. All 150+ kids on the team all split up into groups of 4-8 and spread out across the surrounding neighborhoods to sell little “Subway” buy-one-get-one-free coupons. They were 10$ a piece and each had about 180+ inches total of 6" subs. It was a pretty good deal, but most people said, “I don’t eat at subway” and slammed the door on my face. Stupid old croonies.
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3/2/05
Week-13 Wedsnday (feels like friday)
Workout: 400m jog, stretching, drills, light (2kg) med ball, 2:00 jump rope, 2x30m accel “ladder”, 7x150m accels w/walkback recov, 10 min cooldown, stretches, warm shower(cool finish), foam roller calves
Today was a “pre-meet” workout. Tommorrow we’re going to a dual meet with one of our local schools. The 150’s were paced like 30m@5k->30m@1000m->30m@800->30m@400->30m@1500
Kind of fun, my hammy felt a tiny bit tight on the seventh one, so I called off the eighth one. Didn’t feel my hammy during the cooldown or anything, but I wanted to play it safe. I’m going to run the 1600m and the 4x400. I will probably start out very very easy/relaxed on the 4x400 just to play it safe.
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Edit: Those wooden’ “acceleration ladders” Are fricken retarded. I don’t think I’m ever using them again, nothing but trouble.
Just watch it sonny
3/3/05
Week-13 Thursday Aptos Dual Meet
(Race) Workout: 2:20PM: 15 min jog, stretching, 3:30PM: 10 min jog, dynamics, 4x70m strides, 3:45: 1600m race, 15 min cooldown
Well, today was a lot of fun, I didn’t run very fast 4:51, and I cut out the 4x4 because my hammy was particularly tight after my mile race, but I had fun. My buddy Ivan PR’d in the 1600 ran a 4:36 (like a 10 second pr for him) and I was proud to help him run that monster time. I guess I kind of wussed out in my race. I never tried to “push” it at all. Just kicked a little bit (3 times) during the last bit to keep from getting beat by a particularly quick freshman.
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Its all good, take it easy on the hammy though, its still pretty early in the season and you dont want to ruin your chances at league/masters/states by reinjuring yourself at a meaningless dual meet. The only thing I envy is reading you guys running already, I’m getting antsy down here in SoCal waiting to have my first meet of the season.
Also, how did you feel the glucosamine worked out for you? I’ve considered using it before, but I just didnt get around to it.
finished up my bottle of glucosamine this week (I’m gonna get a new one sometime soon) but last year the glucosamine worked reall good. Before I took it I had a large serious of problems, shin splints, knee aches, etc and they all went away after I started supplementing regularly with glucosamine.
3/4/05
week-13 Friday
Workout: 800m jog, stretching, 10 min jog, 2xweight circuit, stretching, shower.
Today it was raining too hard to go practice on our swamp, so I did my warmup on the road, and then jumped into the weight room to do some circuits.
2x (bench->incline->1/2-3/4squat->pulldown->ab/decline)
It was pretty fun, the weight was all very light (80lb bench, 70lb incline, 145lb sqaut and 50lb pull downs.) And i don’t feel too sore right now. Only thing is tommorrow got rained out, shucksola. No co-ed relays for me 
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3/5/05
Week-13 Saturday
Workout: 51 mins good pace, contrast shower (3:1 hot:cold), stretching, ice (foot/toe), foam roller.
I decided to do a long run today, because our meet was cancelled. Man I checked my journal and it’s been weeks since I’ve done a decent long run! I need to do these at least 1-2 times a week, excluding maybe my final comp phase. Oh well, during the run I could really feel the lopsidedness of my running mechanics, every time i had to jump a log I lept off my left leg, and I could feel more weight on it then my right leg. About 37 minutes into the run I rolled my ankle, luckily my reflexes kicked in and prevented me from hurting it too bad. The outside edge of my foot actually hurts more than any part of my ankle does right now, so I’m gonna ice it and foam roller my legs/calves.
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