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Knee-hab (January Update)
I ran last night. Not much. But I ran. Outside. On a trail. And I can still walk this morning. If running three klicks through on a random Thursday evening in January sounds less than impressive, let me introduce you to my Medial Collateral Ligament injury and the fact that I haven’t had a pain-free
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Un-Wounding
I hate blog posts that are just excuses for not writing. That said, I have been quiet for quite a while. That deserves at least a little excuse for not writing. The summer was a bust. Back in July when I wrote about my knee I was still moderately hopeful that whatever my self-diagnosed ailment
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Knee-hab
Ten days ago I was climbing up a mountain trail near the Crowsnest Pass, a low peak along the continental divide on a sunny Sunday afternoon, looking at views like this: I could feel the start of some bit of twinging in my right knee, but like anything else for a guy in his mid-40s,
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Them Feets
Sunday Runday, and I didn’t. For a whole week I’ve been sidelined by a heel ailment that I’ve self-diagnosed as a touch of plantar fasciitis, or runner’s heel. Them feets! The thing is that I’m supposed to run a half marathon in a little more than a month. The thing is that I need to
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Maybe It’s Cold Outside?
It’s Sunday Runday, and I’m going to stay in and ride the stationary bike. I woke up and looked at the temperature as I was letting the dog out at 6am. It was twenty degrees below zero with a brisk wind. Also, it snowed. Snowed lightly covering up the layer of glassy ice covering a