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Injuries SUCK
2009-11-10
I hate that I injured myself right as I was ramping up my training. It's such a psychological let down. At this point, I should be running 4 days a week and riding my bike one day a week. Unfortunately, on October 19th, I either bruised my a bone in my left foot, or I out-and-out broke a bone in my left foot. I tried to convince myself that I could keep a steady workout routine with just the bike and core-workouts. Unfortunately, I was so down about not being able to train at the level that I wanted to train, that I let a workout slip here and there and then I had a ride where it was too cold to continue and I turned around short of my goal. All these little things combined to make me question if I even want to try to run the Holiday Hustle. Even if the foot is healed enough to run, I would never be able to achieve my goal time. coach td issued a challenge - whether he knew it or not - by writing "21:00" in the water droplets on my car window one day when we were discussing my potential at the Holiday Hustle this year. That got me jazzed. I REALLY wanted to meet that challenge!

The foot feels good, now. I haven't tried running on it, yet. But, it doesn't hurt to walk barefoot on it like it used to. The decision now is to train hard, or not. I have 2 weeks and 2 days before the Holiday Hustle. I'm not feeling very confident and I don't know if I'll be able to regain the kind of confidence that I had on October 18th. It normally takes 12 weeks to get to your peak through training. Clearly, I'm not going to get there. Can I get close? I don't know. I don't know if I want to even try.

Betty Boop       Sun Nov 29 09:50:57 AM
We had a nice Thanksgiving. We went with two other couples to the Elks Lodge in Homosassa and had a lovely dinner there. The rest of the day was like any other.
Yesterday we bought a new car seat for Duke. He manages to get out of the travel bag we got him and so with this seat, he will be fastened in - we hope!! What a little scamp he is!! We have to figure out how to get more pictures posted. POPS is snowed under with FV stuff.
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Betty Boop       Thu Nov 26 08:03:45 AM
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!! ENJOY YOUR DAY AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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BizB       Wed Nov 25 04:58:32 PM
Today is day 2 of 100% pain free consecutive days... so far.

Not pushing it.
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Betty Boop       Wed Nov 25 01:02:34 PM
How are the foot problems coming along BIZ? Have you tried any running on it again?


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sopops       Tue Nov 24 10:08:19 AM
We are glad you have no death wishes, only go out in winds like that with a 40 foot boat and use the storm jib. A lesson we learned the hard way and stretched the main sail on our 32 footer, Oh well"Cest La Vie".
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BizB       Mon Nov 23 09:36:26 PM
I didn't take any pictures! I was too busy playing!

Bubbles has asked me to see if I can get Curly for Thursday evening. So... maybe later this week, you can have some new pics.

I did get some kite time on the 17th. It was a great session at Catawba "Island" State Park. Wednesday is looking windy, but I've got a DDS appt at 3:30, so I won't be riding. Friday is a maybe. A very chilly maybe.
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BizB       Sun Nov 22 07:01:24 PM
That's the latest kiteboarding related viral video. It's pretty amazing. Those guys were out in 40 mph winds with 7 meter kites. That's a lot of kite! I certainly wouldn't have done that.
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BigBro       Sun Nov 22 10:13:21 AM
http://www.wimp.com/kitesurfer/
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Betty Boop       Sun Nov 22 08:23:25 AM
So glad everything went well for the new mom. The baby is really cute.

I heard you had the grands on Fri. eve. How come no new pics? I miss them. I surely wish they could drop into my house once in a while. Curly looks so proud of her first turkey, doesn't she?

Did you get in any fall kiting yet?
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BizB       Sat Nov 21 02:48:07 PM
It's Sig's neighbor's son. He's a cutie.
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Betty Boop       Sat Nov 21 01:50:48 PM
Did you forget to tell us about this?

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sopops       Wed Nov 18 09:01:56 AM
One thing said Jonathan Wanathan Higgins McGee is a wife with purple ears.... I look forward to reading that book again and sending it uup to my Great Grands for Xmas. Thanks Biz for the research.
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Betty Boop       Wed Nov 18 08:04:59 AM
THANKS - POPS ordered it last night. I shall read him his bed time story the evening that it arrives!!
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BizB       Tue Nov 17 11:48:06 AM

'Rents:
As promised, I found the book that you were wondering about. It's "Yellow Cat by Betty Ren Wright"

It's available on Amazon.com.
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BizB       Tue Nov 17 08:25:12 AM
Of course you have. You've been touching stoves a lot longer than I have!
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coach td       Tue Nov 17 06:59:12 AM
I've already touched this stove.................
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BizB       Mon Nov 16 08:59:36 PM
Don't tell coach td... I tried to run a little today. I only tried because I went all day without any pain at all. I thought maybe it was just a cramp yesterday. I may still be right about that. I did my 1/2 mile warm up; no problems. I started my regular route paying an extreme amount of attention to my foot. I gave thought to each foot-fall wondering if I felt ANYTHING other than "wow, still no pain!"

After 1/4 mile I had two consecutive steps where I wasn't sure what I felt, so I slammed on the brakes. I walked back to the house and analysed each step as I went. Not even a little discomfort at all.

Still feel nothing out of the ordinary, but I'm going to be safe about this recovery.

Tomorrow, I'll do a core-workout - perhaps a hips & hammies workout - if my kite isn't delivered in time to take advantage of the killer forecast.
Wednesday, I'll ride the bike either on River rd., or on the trainer.
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Betty Boop       Mon Nov 16 07:55:03 AM
Take care of your foot son. Luv U.

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BizB       Fri Nov 13 07:27:21 PM

So proud. She called to tell me about it.
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BizB       Thu Nov 12 10:36:05 AM
Well, I have already paid for the HH, so I'm at least going to go get my shirt.

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BizB       Thu Nov 12 07:56:01 AM
Phone conversations with coach td aren't much more coherent than that, either.


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Betty Boop       Thu Nov 12 07:37:06 AM
If you are pain free, run the HH just to say you did it and forget time factor. Life is to be enjoyed. Remember how your dad and I loved sailing but just could not get into sail racing? Same thing, only different. Genius, aren't I?
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coach td       Wed Nov 11 05:54:33 PM
Btw folks Biz knows this is not some back door challenge in any way. There's only a few things in this world that are cooler that being healthy, in great shape and knowing it. Instead of wondering if you're going to pr, you're trying to figure by how much. Biz has experienced the coolness of racing so well that you can't figure your splits during the event because it's off the page from what you expected. On the other side racing while hurt stinks. There's more than the physical side to running and racing hurt. It plays with your head more than your body.

And in my opinion the Frosty 5 is way cooler than Holiday Hustle.
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BizB       Wed Nov 11 05:34:27 PM
I can't even see 21:00 from where I'm sitting. I looked and I thought I may have seen 23:30, but it was fuzzy. I have no intentions of hurting myself.
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coach td       Wed Nov 11 05:03:28 PM
The circumstances have changed my friend. That goal is not realistic now. That was then, this is now. Even though you didn't ask,as always I'm ready to butt in. If your goal is to run the Holiday Hustle then fine, have at it. But the 21:00 is over. I promise you will be disappointed one way or another if you think you will weasel a 2 minute 40 second pr with minimal training and remain healthy. You're a big boy and you do a great job of patiently listening to my rants and doing what you feel is best. I believe this will be no different. A pr? Maybe. A healthy pr? Maybe. A healthy 160 second pr? Nothing is that easy in running. Regardless you've come a looooooong way this year. There's more ahead and it only gets better.
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BizB       Wed Nov 11 02:30:05 PM
I have no intention of running at all unless the foot is pain free. The question is, if I'm nowhere near my peak because I haven't been able to train the way that I wanted to, should I bother to try for the remaining 2 weeks - and eventually run the HH?

Or, should I just skip the HH this year (again still assuming I'm pain free) and concentrate on other upcoming races, like the Frosty 5?
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sopops       Wed Nov 11 02:23:44 PM
Good advice, Betty, there is always next year and the prospect of doing something that will cause pain the rest of your years is not good.
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Betty Boop       Wed Nov 11 07:46:36 AM
Your body will tell your brain when you are ready to run full bore again!. When you can't exercise your body - exercise your brain.
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