Running stuff

[cjsmith]

Read through the beginners' marathon book today. It does indeed have a decent amount of information on care of joints, overuse injuries, and injury prevention (including good footwear and good stretches). It specifically mentions ITB problems - yay!

Supposedly running shoes have five hundred miles of life in them. I don't remember exactly when I got mine, but I bet they're fifty miles down by now. Strange to think how quickly they'll be gone. They're hardly even dirty yet!

I wonder how much more life my knees have. (I have a mild case of osteoarthritis, currently noticeable in the knees and in the thumb joints.) I'm doing fine right now, but it's odd to look to the future and wonder exactly when the day will come when I'll want to switch to swimming. It's almost Flowers-for-Algernon-y. Wish I had little windows to peek inside at my cartilege. "Your front brakes are at sixty percent, so they'll be fine until your next scheduled maintenance."

Hey. That book's training program, if I start from my current level, would be sixteen weeks long. I just counted it up and its grand total mileage is 418.2. If I were to start now, that would finish off this pair of running shoes by early fall. (And if my house were on my back, I'd have run to Los Angeles.)

Sleep now.

Comments

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Yeah, why can't they just say that for knees and other body parts? "These knees are guaranteed for 1,000 miles or 500 hours of trampoline time." "This appendix should refrain from bursting for another 10 years, then I'd look into a replacement -- or a removal, your choice."

I'd really like to see an estimate on my lungs, and how much life smoking trimmed from them, and how much I could possibly gain back given the right maintenance program...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

These knees are guaranteed for 1,000 miles or 500 hours of trampoline time.

Bwa ha haa! Exactly. That'd be perfect.

Did I ever tell you about the time I convinced my younger sister that each person has a quota of talking, and once that's used up she has to be silent? I had two blessed days of peace before my mother blew the gig.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Did I ever tell you about the time I convinced my younger sister that each person has a quota of talking, and once that's used up she has to be silent?

That's absolutely brilliant! Can I use that on my kids? Nah, they're too old (and too used to my jokes) to fall for it.

You know, when they were younger (like around 6 and 4), and we were on a long car ride or some other time when we had to be quiet, we'd play "The Silent Game" --- the first person to say anything loses. It worked quite well for almost a year, actually.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's terrific! The Silent Game! My mother would've loved that one when we were little.