Wednesday, February 6, 2013

No run but no rest


If Mike is going to take a few days rest, then maybe I have the leeway to take a few days off from running. To compensate for my problematic left calf, I altered my running form so I wasn’t pushing off my left leg as hard which resulted in slight strain of my shin. Running through the pain is not working so much. 

I used to be a member of Planet Fitness, the ultimate no frills gym that was pretty much made for me. It’s cheap ($10-15 month), and has mostly endurance machines like treadmills, ellipticals and lifecycles. Unless  my leg make a remarkable recovery in the next 10 hours, I am going to rejoin and hit the lifecycle tomorrow which should do the trick.

Of course what will then happen is I will get all excited by the variety of doing multiple activities and will consider signing up for a half ironman. I just need to think about an open water swim in cold water and that will cure me of it. Plus being a white male in the Bay Area and the tech industry who does triathlons makes me quite possibly the most annoying stereotype imaginable. 

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