Time flies when one spends parts of their days in physical therapy. Given all my rowing injuries, college was a blink and you’ll miss it experience for me. Despite the injury I’ve been keeping active. I’ll have rock hard abs when I come back (they will just be hidden under the layer of padding still), [...]

When I first hurt my leg, I was devastated. I wanted to sit around on the couch, leg propped up, ice cream in hand. And that’s pretty much what I did for the first week. While the pain and swelling were bad, I really couldn’t do much. Luckily, my race schedule for June and July [...]

I couldn’t get the swelling in my leg to come down completely so I payed the $25 copay to go see my family doctor. She’s not a sports medicine doctor and she basically only confirmed that she didn’t think it was a blood clot. She did recommend I do Physical Therapy for the injury. Probably [...]

My leg was feeling a little better this morning. I decided to keep the knee brace on, but allow myself to walk a little more normally. I even took the stairs, although very slowly. I can’t bring myself to taking the elevator just one floor at work. My leg was feeling good. A couple twinges [...]

My husband being a ultrarunner, a lot of his friends seem obsessed with their feet. Their Facebook feeds are full of comments on their latest blister, black toes and lost toenails.  Ultrarunners seem proud of how mashed up their feet get during races. This weekend, I joined the club. I don’t show you a picture [...]

1. Race obsession I’m very backed up on grad school work right now. I should be doing loads and loads of homework. But I sometimes find myself day dreaming of my two big races coming up. The Pineland 50k Trail race at the end of the month, my first Ultramarathon, and the Quebec City Marathon [...]

So my old enemy has been attacking me again. My plantar fasciitis has been rather acute in my left foot for a few days now. Because I have the Great Bay Half Marathon on Deck for Sunday I decided to take the week off to try to get the plantar under control. If it continues [...]

When I was in college I was paid for my sport. I had a scholarship that covered my tuition, my food, my apartment, my books and even my health insurance. I had access to athletic trainers whenever I needed them. I had the good life. But this also had it’s moral trade offs for me. [...]