Hello from cold Cold COLD Northern Ohio. It's been in the single digits the last couple days and wind chills have been almost unbearable. When its this cold I usually do something stupid like shave my head, but it's a new year so I felt like I needed a new look. Actually I was just looking pretty shaggy and really need to clean it up some so instead of just shaving my head I headed to the local barbershop to get a trim. I decided I wanted to continue to grow the top, but wanted to trim down the sides and the back. I am digging the look and I think it will lay a lot better when it gets longer.
As you know I haven't been running due to what I have self diagnosed as IT Band syndrome, or better known as "runner's knee", so it has been difficult trying to maintain the weight loss let-a-lone try and loose any. I had a slight up tick this week, but that is not bothering me at all. With how my weigh ins have been going recently it doesn't shock me what the scale said today.
1/7/15 official weigh in
176 lbs
Change: +1 lbs
Total loss from heaviest: 141lbs
Current BMI: 27.5 (overweight)
Change:+.1
Today was my second visit with my physical therapist and I have to say it went very well. We reviewed my gait analysis, which gave a glimpse into what my problem is. Running itself without doing any other strength and stretching exercises can cause a muscle imbalance. For me, running is all I have been doing for two plus years now, so it was no surprise to my therapist as to what she was seeing. Essentially, as things got tighter and tighter on my right side and my right leg was pulling inward and kind of crossing in front of my left. When my right leg would land it was putting torque on my IT Band and irritating it. Eventually it got to bad and my leg said "I give up" with pain on the side of my knee.
After we finished the analysis we moved on to the actual physical therapy part of the visit. After a lot of stretching, bending, pulling, twisting and deep massaging she gave me my homework. I am still to continue my stretching and foam rolling 3 times a day, but she added 3 stability/strengthening exercises to do once a day.
As for my running future, she has asked me to attempt a two mile run and email her how I felt. If things go well she will allow me to attempt 3-4 more runs before our next visit in 2 weeks. If things continue to progress positively then at my next appointment we will talk about where my training will go from here.
That's good news she knows what is wrong and can hopefully fix it. I've been nothing but running for three years now... I've been meaning to integrate some other stuff... I should get on that.
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