Tri-ing to stay young!

Time seems to fly when you are procrastinating writing a blog entry.
The Marathon went great however, 2 days before the marathon, I was walking around with two knee braces and more knee, leg and lower back pain than I had experienced in a long time. So … I went to see Reisa, a Hellerwork Therapist as a last resort. She was successful beyond all expectations! I went, expecting a slight improvement in my lower back, hamstring and glute pains and walked away virtually pain free. Having said that, the session itself was anything but pain free! She worked through several layers of tissue and managed to find trigger points that I didn’t even know I had. I have thrown away all of my massage therapists cards and will only use Reisa from here on in.
After two days of rest, I completed the entire race at a run, something I had always dreamed of doing but never done before! My time wasn’t as good as hoped at 4:56 but now that my body knows what is expected of it to complete 26.2 miles at a run, I expect nothing less than that of it in the future! As an aside, did you read about that incredible 80 year old lady from Vancouver who set a new World Marathon Age Group Record of 4:36 in Victoria. Absolutely Incredible!!!
So much for the marathon. On Tuesday, I went for a run with my friend Tom and managed to injure my left foot. I was experimenting with a new way of landing and pushing off on each step and I now have extreme pain over my big toe and the one next to it (The pain is similar to the pain I experienced many years ago when I broke those toes.) I tried an hour run on the treadmill this evening to see if the pain would go away – no luck, I had to give up at 50 minutes. An interesting thing about this pain is that it only seems to flair up with the pounding of running. There is virtually no pain when walking. I’m sure that Reisa will be able to fix this too. But, between now and Arizona Ironman, I’ll restrict my cardio to Bike and Swim only and I won’t experiment with new running techniques until after the race.
Speaking of swimming, I went to the first swim session in several months at the Y on Saturday. It was HELL! I forgot how much harder it was to swim when you didn’t have a wet suit to help you afloat.
Enough for tonight. I’ll let you know how Reisa does with my foot next blog.
Talk to you soon;
Bill