today was another one of those days that got off to an ebay beginning. had bid on something i wanted and it ended at 3:08am my time. so i put in a new maximun bid and went to sleep; got up at 5 to see what happened. usually would have gotten up at 2:30 but wasn't desperate enough.
anyway, sure enough while i was sleeping there were nine other bids, but i won out by a buck. paid and tried to go back to sleep. paying was easy- back to sleep was not, but i managed about 7am to grab another 90 minutes. figured as long as it was 24 degrees out i could let the sun come up first before i ran/
gail and i headed over to the river past the frost covered fields and skipping the church part of the run so we could get her heel onto the softer dirt trail. it was still cold but really pretty and the crew teams were all out on the water and there were many other runners and dog walkers also on the trail going in both directions.
we headed north towards wolvercote, but turned around early at what we call the turnaround gate (usually lots of mud on the other side of this gate) and headed back down the thames as about one hundred geese flew honking by and landed in the river. pretty sight. down the trail we went and over the rainbow bridge-the 1836 bridge-
i ran gail back down the river trail towards botley road and as she headed home i turned around and headed back up the river. decided to skip the canal and ran all of the way back up to rainbow again. had some really decent and quick pieces of the run, but could only hold that pace for so long. eventually i gave into saving something for tomorrow and headed home. only 8 miles and i will comfort myself by knowing that lots of it was nice and steady and at a good pace, and allow myself the wimp out by stopping at 8 . sort of hoped for another 10 at that point.
i am trying to teach my right leg how to run again. to that end i force myself to use it as a runner would rather than drag it along as i have been doing these past eight years or so. the periformis is not good and the quad and hip are full of scar tissue and there is only so much range of motion left. at home i was getting deep tissue work by dr kathy and of course i am not getting that here, though i do stretch and she would like that.
i can tell of course when i am using the leg and when i am not. i do feel like i am making very slow progress and am determined to keep trying. eight bad years is not going to be made up that fast and frankly, it needs the dr's help. dr kathy does say that it is the left leg that is tight and i know i put more stress on the "good" leg, as i call it. it may be tighter, but it doesn't hurt. i would hope that most people are not running with the amount of pain i have on my right side, but the alternative seems to be months off and hope that helps. like most runners i want guarantees before i take months off. not going to happen until i am literally forced into that. and at least it hasn't gotten worse after the 1456 miles i have run since i have been in the UK. time will tell.
if i can keep going until i get home i can go back for treatment and see what else i can do about it. of course, injuries are vicious cycles. you get hurt. you run less or not at all. you gain weight as you continue to eat as if you were still running. maybe you get better. you start running and you are slower. downtime starts in 72 hours as a runner. 3 days off and you begin to de-condition. eight years is a long three days. at home i ride the bike 150-300 miles a week and run and it helps. not here. all running all of the time.
went past all 7's today - 77, 783. at home i will run less. there is more to do and frankly it is easier to run here as the weather is generally better without the extremes and the daily runs are more varied. love the mt vernon trail and ft hunt, but there are more ways to go here as long as one is not wedded to measured course and nice ground.
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art shows- a very nice treat. we walked up to the ashmolean museum and saw a show i had been looking forward to, chinese prints from 1950-2006. showed the changes in the chinese republic over the past half century as the brochure said. they were great. mostly multi block printed with oil or water based inkwood cuts some of my favorites were by:
chao mei yu chengyou
hao boyi guan housheng
zheng shuang chen yuping
zhang chaoyang zhao xiaomo
zhang xinyu zhang zhenqi
li qun cao jianfeng
will do more research on them later. the show was free and we bought the book about the show and some postcards. really enjoyed it.
then we decided it was early enough to walk over to christ church and go through the picture gallery and see the german and italian drawings and prints. these were works from the 15th-17th century. always interesting to stand in front of a 550 year old painting. and it was easy to admire the work even when the subject matter wasn't as interesting to me. two bucks each to get in as seniors- still find that amusing that i am using the senior discount. enjoyed it and the walk over through three very old colleges.
to bring us back into this century we stopped at starbucks and then headed home. all in all a nice day out after a decent run. still cold, probably hit 38 degrees today. and here we are settled in with our saturday paper( would be the sunday paper at home) and will watch a tommy lee jones movie at 9pm.
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like mitt romney i have decided to suspend my golf practice here. it has just been too frustrating and my swing is all confused right now. will wait until i get home or get the bug again. will be back there for a visit in 3 weeks and maybe i can get some help or maybe the rest will help. either way it is only golf.
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also like mitt romney i noticed that john mc cain has turned into someone he didn't use to be. what a disaster. changed his mind on torture, immigration, taxes, abortion and what else....
dinner bell chimes and still no spell check working
last comment- why is it that "Juno" was up for picture of the year? ha
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