OK
so if you have been reading this blog for some time you will know that
I'm injured and have been for a long time. So I can run, but not the way
I want too, I can't come into the home straight and kick for the
finish... "Cross Training": I might be up for a waltz, but there won't
be any "Murder On The Dance Floor".
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| Clear the dance floor I'm on fire! |
Back to the injury, I look at it this way:
You get 2 types of injuries...
- Acute injuries, like when you twist an ankle on the dance floor!
- Overuse injuries, Like what I have...
Now
if you run perfectly you really shouldn't ever get an overuse injury
unless you do something stupid like run 1000 miles on a camber!
With
very few injuries over the last 30+ years of running I would say I run
OK, so why the injury now? I can't answer that but there are a number of
things that could be the cause and I'm not going to get into that now
(it could turn into a blog on it's own!), the question now is where to
from here?
On Facebook I saw that Benita was hosting a LYNOTHERAPY course and was looking for models (imagine me on the catwalk!) to be assessed... I put my name down!
Think
of it like this: your car has one wheel that is wearing flat on the one
side, now you could just change the wheel and drive on, but the wheel
will just wear again, so what do you do? You take it for wheel alignment
and your problem is solved, RIGHT? So why not with your body!
OK
so if you were standing/sitting in front of a physio, you would be telling them where it hurts!
While with Benita things are very different! While knowing where you hurt is important, it's not what she's interested in! She looks at you, she bends/moves your legs and arms to see how your body moves! (There
are also a couple exercises she makes you do!) Each movement she records on her clipboard so she get a full picture of how unbalanced you are!
Then the treatment starts... I read the theory like this:
If your left leg only bends 90* while the right leg moves 115* you have a problem and she will aim at getting them the same...
Look
there is a lot more to it than that, but that is the simple idea, so
with the "wheel alignment" fixed the injury will come right!
If you want to know more about it have a look at her website:
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| Running off into the sunset! |
I really like your header photo. And I really DON'T like that you're still hurting. I really hope the Lyno is able to help identify issues and give some good solutions.
ReplyDeleteAre you sure the injury is from running and not from dancing??
ReplyDeleteI know of a few people that say the Lyno sorted them out. Lets hope it can do the same for you.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question about the circuit race: 17 runners doing the 10 day and 20 doing the 6 day. All still going. The leader in the 10 day, Kobi Oren, did 426km in the first 3 days (72 hours).
Hopefully you are able to get back out there 100% soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recent comments and feedback about my races - recently I set a 10K PR, and 2 nights ago I set a new mile PR. So I have now broken all of my PRs in 2014. It has been a great year of running.