Patience; the new endurance sport.

Did my running at the gym with my kid on the treadmill next to me.  I taught him how to do all his abdominal exercises--singling out ab sections including his abductors. It wasn't entirely successful. It was harder than I'd imagined helping him locate and focus on where to isolate the work. He also wasn't 100% convinced I knew what I was doing. Who can blame him, I'm so flabby you would have never believed I grew up in a gym working out with Mr. America 1976 (my father).  We did have fun though running next to each other watching the Miss Universe Pageant and commenting on the hilarious things the announcers would say (and the intonations they used) when they said things like “Miss Paraguay was studying to be a doctor until she realized that the sight of blood makes her sick….Being a doc, doesn't rock with.......Paraguay!"  I was reminded while we were watching all these beautiful girls how unconscious he is in his attraction to the dark skinned women.  He doesn’t make a point of it or even realize it.  He just stops and looks more carefully, and for longer, if the girl has dark skin.  I just think it’s interesting and wonder how that came to be, and if it will translate into his dating years (a few years down the road).

This cool autumn weather takes my breath away and reinvegorates me entirely. The sun doesn't even come up until nearly 9 so the flowers are still fragrant and dewy and the air sports a fiesty chill.  The only sad part is that  my hip/piriformis bothers me again.  I did  as much grass and dirt running as possible along my route--including a few 100 feet repeats at Vintage park. 

The injections Dr. Brady gave me, I am 100% sure now, were exactly the same as getting a cortisone shot.  The effect has completely worn off, and my piriformis is more painful than it was before I went in July.  So basically, the anti-inflammitory worked for 6 weeks allowing me to further injury the injury while I continued to run (even at my new reduced and overly moderate schedule).  He told me the shots contained oxygen and B vitamins to promote healing.  The truth is, the injury is worse. Even after resting, even after the elliptical.  Today's little run hurt so bad going up and down the hill I had to stop and catch my breath.  It made me realize I've been living with this hip, piriformis,hamstring injury since 2008.  It's been a tough year starting with not making the Boston Marthon sign up last Fall and then not getting into the New York City Marathon for this November.  Which reminds me......I have a race number for St. George if anyone needs it. 

Ran around the temple.  Not loving the piriformis action.  It was a bit chilly this morning, which reminds me how much  my tendons love the cold.

 I must be the only person who ever got tendonitis on the eliptical.  I had a great work out though--sweated more and breathed twice as hard than when running.  I'm prone to tendonitis anyway.  Yoga gives me tennis elbow.  I'm about ready to give up.