I can run again!!!
At the advice of my coach, yesterday I went to see Dr Jesse Walden at Quest Performance Center. I highly encourage any runners in the KC Metro area to check this guy out. He's in Shawnee, KS and he's a chiropractor but also specializes in sports performance. He uses active release techniques as well as chiropractic. He spent a little over an hour with me and really worked on my left calf as well as my right knee, which I've been battling tendonitis with since October. He also said my IT band was over my quad, so he did some work to move it back into place. It was a little painful during the manipulation, but sooo worth it. I have no pain whatsoever in my knee today!
As for the calf, he spent a lot of time on it as well as my left foot and ankle. He advised that I go run on it for 20 minutes or so after my appointment, but to stop if the pain got worse or if I had shooting pain in it. It hurt a little, starting out, but I ran 2 miles of hills pretty easily and was so glad to be running again! I came home and did the stretches he showed me and I honestly don't feel that bad today. I'm still a little sore and achy, but I'm going back to see him again tomorrow and he said I should be fine to run the HM on Sunday - woohoo!!!!
So, after last night's quick 2 mile run, I ended up with 3 workouts for the day, LOL. Here they are:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009: 4 miles on elliptical, muscle conditioning, 2 mile run
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- Kansas City, MO, United States
- I'm just a girl....and no, I haven't had it up to here. But I am just girl, livin life and lovin every minute of it. If it's not fun or funny, I'm pretty much not interested. I have two beautiful girls and I cherish every minute of my time with them. I turn 30 this year and in the midst of all the craziness, I thought - hey, why not do a triathlon this year? So aside from being a wife, a mother, a quality assurance customer experience specialist, and LOL around GOOF, I'm also training to be a triathlete. I prefer to go through life with a smile on my face at all times - either cuz I'm cracking up, I'm having the time of my life, or I'm just up to no good at all! And THAT, my friends, is me in a nutshell.
5 comments:
Excellent!! I'm so happy for you, that guy sounds AWESOME. May even be worth a trip up your direction the next time I have some running-related injury. Your half marathon is so CLOSE!! Good luck! Post a race report when you get back. :)
YAYAY for your calf issue. Mine not so much. IZZY needs to shut her cryhole... for no other reason than I can tell her to do so ;)
Ummmm, yeah the whole sausage incident, they were ALL back there I KNOW they were laughing but really nice about it. So ridiculous.
Drinks make me sing like a ROCKSTAR. I once got booed off on my 23rd birthday when me and my friend from Burma thought we were rockin.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure FWR can SHUT IT right back!! :)
Oh, I see you're going to be in my lovely hometown of Emporia on May 2 - someone asked me to do that race, but I'll probably still be out of commission. You're a machine to race 3 weekends in a row!
AWESOME news girl!! so glad you are feeling better!
Really glad to hear your feeling better Ashley!!!!!!!
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